Monday Madness: Original Fic

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

Hey, all you original fic writers out there! How are things going on your latest/oldest/newest/only orig fic? Need any help? Got thoughts about something you want to share? Need encouragement? here's the place to do it. This week, I'm opening up the floor to you guys to discuss anything you want. So fire away!





I have to say I'm not doing so well with getting any more written in my own original fics this year, but I am hoping to. I really liked some of my ideas, but one of the problems I have is that new ideas come forward and take over my brain, and then before I get back to the first one, I feel compelled to start another one... and I have a few sitting in my WIP folder now.

I have consciously tried not to start any new ones lately though, so that maybe I can go back to some of the older ones. I have a couple that are well established - one has 25K written, and I have this idea of exactly where it's supposed to end, so I would like to make that one happen.

I also have another nine chapters in, and I have actually posted six of them, but I kind of stalled when I got to the chapter that needed the female lead to take centre stage, and I can't seem to get around that. I wanted to ask if anyone else has as much trouble writing female characters as I do? I find men easier, strangely enough, and I'm not sure why this is - maybe because I've been writing a lot of men for a long time - but any thoughts you have on the subject, or discussions on your own difficulties or ease with characters may be as good a place as any to start today.

Comments

[chokolattejedi.livejournal.com]

So I went back to writing original fic for the first time in a few months. I saw the submission call for <3 press asking for geek trans* stories and jumped on it. Unfortunately the press is only for romance stories, which wasn't spelled out in the submission call. So I finished this story, thought it was complete and good and whatnot, and went to look at the guidelines and found that it was lacking that crucial element. And due to reasons of my character (she's finally accepting herself and ready to take a big step for the first time that is ten steps before the step of dating), shoehorning in a romance would be really really clearly shoehorning and pasted on yay.

So. Now I've got this 10K original fic that I busted myself to get done in a month and I can't do anything with it.

Needless to say I am a bit discouraged.

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

*hugs* That really is frustrating. I can see how hard you worked and how much of a let-down it would be to realise it didn't fit the criteria. I'm trying to think if I know of any comms that would be interested in such a story. The only original fic comm I belong to is ah_gayfiction, which is more for gay original fic, but I have looked around through one of my friends (who is transgender)'s comms, but I'm not sure anything is right for your story. I hope you can find somewhere to post it and have people appreciate it, anyway.

As for me personally, I'd love to read it, so if you have posted it and feel like linking it here, that would be wonderful. If you haven't posted it though, and just like the idea of sharing it with someone, you could always email it to me! Let me know if you'd like to share. ;-)

Love your icon, btw! :D