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[ghostlygriffinluminary]

I kicked it off…

by writing ten drabbles in one slightly sleep-crimed night.

two doctor who, eight brokenwood. the former will be updating an existing story and the latter just needs a title before I can post it.

so. we’re in the way. this definitely is not gonna mess up my coursework flow. absolutely not.

[ghostlygriffinluminary]

Sanity has left the building

I decided to get back into writing by doing drabbles.

Okay! Great, I have six fandoms. 100-word stories. This sounds perfect. Manageable, innit.

There’s a catch, though, there’s always a catch. Always a trap. I did not see the trap until it was too late. Fifty drabbles per fandom sounded… polite. Apologetic. “Hello would you like a very small bundle of vignettes?” At which point I thought: one hundred!

One hundred times one hundred = ten thousand. Nice.

And then I saw the trap. One hundred prompts is boring. My brain is not built like this. So then I had to fix this because sixty thousand words of drabbles did not feel like it rowed my boat. In fact, it didn’t even get the boat on the water. So, I’ve concluded with:

Brokenwood Mysteries: 190 drabbles.

Doctor Who: 319 drabbles.

Midsomer Murders: 199 drabbles.

Pretty Little Liars: 160 drabbles.

Sherlock: 221 drabbles.

Vampire Diaries: 171 drabbles.

Yes. This tallied to 1,260. Yes, that equals 126,000 words. Yes, I write one thing and fresh ideas spawn like I-don’t-know-whats. And yes, I began my degree less than a month ago. Frankly, I blame the entire winter chill, it’s slowing down my bloodflow and impacting my ideas.

On the bright side, degree’s going well.

[likeaghostofshame]

[formerglory25]

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[ghostlygriffinluminary]

Just because I said it, doesn’t mean I meant it

I said I was going to write one fic at a time. To completion. And then publish it.

Then I would begin the next one. Because I have grown as a person. This is what I said, because it is what I thought. My intention was good. But, as my dad used to say, “what I said isn’t necessarily what I meant.”

This is just to say: I originally started one Brokenwood Mysteries fanfic. Then I plotted a second. Then I began a third. And now I’ve jumped to a fourth.

I have not grown as a person. I am the same as I was last time I was writing fic. The growth was a lie. I’d be disappointed, but that won’t populate the Simmers tag. Yes, I’m obsessed. This happens and will continue to happen for, I expect, several months. I will ride this wave. It is fine.

[ghostlygriffinluminary]

The thing is:

I have grown as a person.

I will not began fics and then leave them forgotten in my google drive.

I will write a fic in its entirety before i begin posting.

I will not ignore the one i have in progress, and the one i planned, in favour of writing 37 Simmers drabbles.

I will not ignore the one i have in progress, and the one i planned, in favour of -

I will not ignore the one i have in progress, and the one i planned, -

I will not ignore the one i have in progress -

Ah, fuck.

[verdantdrawzstories]

Reminder that fanfic authors write the stories you like

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[ghostlygriffinluminary]

this is:

I went so hard in three years that I destroyed my creative brain and had six months off and then looped back around and my creative brain is back online and I blame the Brokenwood Mysteries for this at least 82%

now I have four Brokenwood fic ideas scribbled down over the last week, five poem ideas and my brain keeps rummaging AO3 like a raccoon in a bin looking for more tropes

[ghostlygriffinluminary]

Where do i find fanfic prompts

Two of my fandoms are starving and i need to bring them fresh material and I’ve barely written in seventeen months.

[ghostlygriffinluminary]

well this is awkward

I fell down the Brokenwood Mysteries rabbit hole roughly a month ago.

I began my degree one (1) business week ago.

I am now starting my first vaguely-Simmers fanfic. My cranium possesses no thoughts except beautiful people solving murders in two countries and one of them is my own home country.

These are good life choices. 10/10 would ship again.

[ghostlygriffinluminary]

I have fallen down the Brokenwood Mysteries rabbit hole in the same way I fell for Midsomer Murders and this is going to be A Problem probably.

Also I am personally offended by how little fic there is and I’m going to have to do something about that, probably.