Desperate Times Desperate Measure Chapter 9

[lightofdaye]

Well since I've picked up a few more friend than just Hollywoodlawn, I'd thought i'd pimp out my fic updates here as well.

So chapter 9 of my Harry/Tonks fic has gone up. I think its the most popular of my fics given the number of ratings and reviews per chapter.

http://hp.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600025317&chapter=9

Comments

[hollywoodlawn.livejournal.com]

I used to think it was a nice way to switch up your thinking every now and then.

When I started writing Mad Snorkacks and Englishmen, it was my first fanfiction and I was pretty gung ho about it. The reviews really pumped me up and inspired me to keep going. I had a pretty good idea of where I wanted the story to go, but I was thinking about it so much that I would come up with new plots and twists every week.

After writing it for a straight 6-7 months, though, I was getting a little bored with it. Actually, it was trying more than anything--there was so much angst going on that it was sucking the energy out of me to keep up with it. I had written a really, really nasty chapter that I had essentially been planning for ages and I needed a bit of a breather. Then someone asked me if I would write them something if they gave me a prompt. So I took the challenge and it worked out nicely for a bit. A few weeks spent on one story, then writing a chapter for the other...kept things fresh and left me more open-minded.

Then I signed up for a fic fest and things started to fall apart from there. I still have lots of outlines for plot bunnies I know I'll never commit to. At this point, it would be nice to have just ONE of my WIPs done.

[lightofdaye]

I hear that.

I've got only the two posted on-goings but... *checks hard drive* there's at least three partial first chapters or 1 shots. 4 if I count a vague idea for an X-men fic and 5 if I count the attempt at a chapter 4 for 'Bossy In Bed' but that's never going to happen.

I've never really taken part in any fests. Been vaguely thinking about taking part in smutty_claus but I'm bad with deadlines. So maybe not...

[greycie88.livejournal.com]

just the idea of that makes me feel panicked lol. I've been writing on this fic essentially every day since I started sometimes in March I think. I'll be glad for it to come to an end. It's been all consuming and stressful, I've loved it too but I'll be glad to take a break and just breathe for a while.

[lightofdaye]

Now that's the kind of drive and inspiration, I kinda miss. My first fic; 'It's Just Sex' was all done much more quickly than later efforts. I was putting out chapters every three or four days in place. Though to be fair its unproof read and typo ridden and probably barely legible.

Now I start something on an inspiration but if I take to long about it, its gone and I'm just left with some lines I think are nifty but none of the drive or clarity of the initial burst of inspiration.

I think one of the reasons INJS seems to be dragging on is that its a sequel and I had to think about it and plot it out specifically because its written as a sequel and not born of its own burst of inspiration.

If that makes any sense.