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Writing Update
Monday, September 18th, 2023 08:21 pmSigning up for challenges/events seems to be the best way to get me writing again. I haven't been able to participate to the fullest extent, but I'm just glad I've been able to get some stories done. Hopefully I can keep up the pace for the whole event.
I've been thinking of my WIPs, too. I do want to return to Triple Game at some point, but I need to make time for a reread/rewatch first, I think. But I still love the idea and miss writing for YGO.
As for Miraculous stuff...that's harder, because while on some level I have ideas that I want to write for it - I have that partially finished Ghost!Marinette fic that's been hanging out for years, for instance - it's just hard to justify it to myself when I...actually haven't kept up with the show. At this point there's more of the show that I haven't watched than I have. And I don't know how to reconcile having lost interest in watching the rest of the show with still wanting to write fanfic for it. Part of me says I should write anyway and just tag everything "Season 1 / 2 vibes" or something, but there's a mental block there for me whenever I try to write that says I shouldn't write for something I haven't seen all of.
It's different with Star Wars, because there's a distinction there for me between different parts of the franchise, where the first six films are the "core" I can base off of, and everything else is extra that I can add in as I like. So I don't feel the need to see/read everything there, because most of it is "optional" in my mind (and there's so much of it that almost no one actually does engage with everything under the Star Wars label). But with Miraculous it's actually the direct continuation of its "core" media, it just...lost me somewhere along the way. I don't really know what to do with that, when most everything else I write from a place of love for the source material, and for Miraculous...it's just the premise I like. I don't know, I guess I'm just not the kind of writer that can say "screw canon!" very easily; even when writing AUs, I still feel like I engage with the source material in some way. But at the same time, it seems like such a shame to leave behind the ideas I still have for that fandom, and I genuinely did have fun writing for it in the past.
I don't know. I'm also trying to branch out more, write for more than one fandom at a time. I've made some progress in that area that I'm happy with, but I want to keep going. The trouble with that is keeping up with reading/watching/playing things and still finding time to write, which is hard enough even when not actively getting into new stuff. (I bought, and I know I'll be into the NieR games, the soundtrack is phenomenal and that's like 70% of the reason a fandom sticks with me, honestly - but finding time to sit down and play them, through all the endings...yeah). I expect things are going to get even busier for me, too, as the community theatre season is starting up again, and moving and working on the house, and work is getting closer to product launch, and everything.
Still, I want to write. And I'm going to try to keep at it.
I've been thinking of my WIPs, too. I do want to return to Triple Game at some point, but I need to make time for a reread/rewatch first, I think. But I still love the idea and miss writing for YGO.
As for Miraculous stuff...that's harder, because while on some level I have ideas that I want to write for it - I have that partially finished Ghost!Marinette fic that's been hanging out for years, for instance - it's just hard to justify it to myself when I...actually haven't kept up with the show. At this point there's more of the show that I haven't watched than I have. And I don't know how to reconcile having lost interest in watching the rest of the show with still wanting to write fanfic for it. Part of me says I should write anyway and just tag everything "Season 1 / 2 vibes" or something, but there's a mental block there for me whenever I try to write that says I shouldn't write for something I haven't seen all of.
It's different with Star Wars, because there's a distinction there for me between different parts of the franchise, where the first six films are the "core" I can base off of, and everything else is extra that I can add in as I like. So I don't feel the need to see/read everything there, because most of it is "optional" in my mind (and there's so much of it that almost no one actually does engage with everything under the Star Wars label). But with Miraculous it's actually the direct continuation of its "core" media, it just...lost me somewhere along the way. I don't really know what to do with that, when most everything else I write from a place of love for the source material, and for Miraculous...it's just the premise I like. I don't know, I guess I'm just not the kind of writer that can say "screw canon!" very easily; even when writing AUs, I still feel like I engage with the source material in some way. But at the same time, it seems like such a shame to leave behind the ideas I still have for that fandom, and I genuinely did have fun writing for it in the past.
I don't know. I'm also trying to branch out more, write for more than one fandom at a time. I've made some progress in that area that I'm happy with, but I want to keep going. The trouble with that is keeping up with reading/watching/playing things and still finding time to write, which is hard enough even when not actively getting into new stuff. (I bought, and I know I'll be into the NieR games, the soundtrack is phenomenal and that's like 70% of the reason a fandom sticks with me, honestly - but finding time to sit down and play them, through all the endings...yeah). I expect things are going to get even busier for me, too, as the community theatre season is starting up again, and moving and working on the house, and work is getting closer to product launch, and everything.
Still, I want to write. And I'm going to try to keep at it.
