External factors and extra content.
A lot can happen when making any kind of creative writing. But not just in the thing you're trying to create. Things can also happen in your life that can affect your work in a number of ways.
Life doesn't stop just because we have a project we're working on. We have relationships like family or friends, we have our emotions, our individualism, school or work, taking care of pets or children, we need to eat as well as sleep, and so much more happening all around us. We aren't machines where the world around us doesn't matter at all. We can get busy and sometimes we can walk away from a project for even a week to deal with other things.
When you have deadlines either set by yourself, or by someone else, the world continuing around us can get frustrating.
But we are humans and as much work we have to get done we need our breaks. We need pieces of the world going on around us, especially between working on projects. Breaks can be nice and actually allow you to come back to the project feeling rejuvenated. Plus it can help if you get stuck so you can come back later to see if a new angle has come up. That's why the whole sleep on this decision thing is around. It really can work in helping figure things out. See if it is where you want to go on something.
The world does a lot more than provide things for our breaks, giving us our individual lives we live as our own beings, and giving us the tools to create things of our own. It also influences writing a lot more than some may think. This takes on variations depending on the circumstances.
You can find that things going on in your life, around you, media you partake in, your emotions at the time, or your interest in certain topics changes the mood of your work. Let's go off creating one chapter let's say every weekend for an example. One chapter could be on the happier side with moments of good, peace, maybe even some sweet or romantic moments. Then another can be dark, tragic, and even scary. These shifts happen because of things going on around us or in our lives. Our experiences, feelings, perspective, and so much more can bring out different things in a work. And that's okay. You can make things work with that and even find new angles of ideas on what to possibly add to the piece of work. I do this a lot and I work with it. This is why for me, it's okay if it's not for you, working on multiple pieces at a time really helps this fact of life. I can create darker things or happier things depending on everything.
There is more to it than that however. Things a part of your own world can mean that your work changes completely. Sometimes straying far from what was originally planned. That is okay. Things like this happen. Your initial idea just may not be how you believe the world should actually be after putting more work into it. Like developing lore, rules, backgrounds, and so on. Your original idea can be a starting point before you really flesh out the world or characters within the world. You are creating things the way that you feel is right for the piece of work. And even then you'll get ideas that you may decide doesn't fit with what you want, has to be altered to fit, or just is never used for any other reason. While other ideas may get similar yet opposite treatment to the scrapped ideas. That's why it is perfectly okay to write down every idea you get for the work you're working on. You don't have to keep them all but perhaps you will use an idea or expand upon what may have seemed like a silly idea for it. Think of them as deleted scenes or alternate endings like in movies or games.
I actually do something when I'm writing something. If I have more than one idea for something I do one of three things. I put them all together in one spot as ideas while writing the story to decide what to do as I write, put them together finding a way while writing to put in both ideas in someway, or what I tend to do the most other than the first one is to put each path into their own story ideas. Sometimes the other versions never see the light of day to my audience, and sometimes they do see the light of day. I find it also helps me figure out what direction I wish to go in especially by fleshing out ideas for all sides, or allows me to go back sometime after completing a story to try following a different path on it. This can also lead to me using the ideas in other stories I create later on. Scrapped content has its uses. Giving ideas for a story even turning it in a new direction, finding something you may have never thought of for it before so you change things, and a look back at your thoughts before or during the process, and so much more.
So much affects things especially projects we work on. And it's okay because we aren't machines. We have lives and emotions. Writing can also help express emotions while writing at specific times. So keep writing and figuring out things as you go along.















