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Post by Kpatch on May 13, 2021 9:55:54 GMT -5
I am living inside my head. I am so inspired by the story I am currently writing that I am constantly thinking about it, waking and sleeping. Sometimes it keeps me up at night because I am writing a scene in my head. I often grab my iPad and jot down bits of dialogue so I don't forget. But even when I'm nowhere near a device, I am continuing to create the story. It has taken hold and will not let go.
Does that happen to you? Do you live inside your head, inside your story, and work on the story day and night even when you are doing other things? Or is it just me?
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Post by heroicmuse on May 13, 2021 11:51:54 GMT -5
Oh.my gosh yes! I have to set timers to remind myself to do other things because otherwise I forget the rest of the world outside my story.
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Post by soaps4ever on May 13, 2021 16:40:51 GMT -5
I write mainly poetry and for me if I get an idea and some verses in my head I have to write them down immediately. From there I can build but it is an obsession until I finish the poem and though I enjoy the process I am so happy when it's done.
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Post by André DiMera on May 13, 2021 22:22:22 GMT -5
I definitely get lost in my story sometimes. I can write for ages, if I don't remind myself that I have other things to do! I think I've mentioned before that ideas come to me from the most random places. I have a special page on the Notes app on my phone where I jot down ideas for stories when they come to me. Then, I look back at them and see how they form into a full storyline. Dialogue itself isn't always clear, more the general idea of what I want to happen, or where a particular story should go.
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Post by lumiforeverandalways on May 14, 2021 8:08:47 GMT -5
yes I sure do get lost in any fanfic I'm writing sometimes
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Post by Kpatch on May 25, 2021 8:44:26 GMT -5
Here's another question. For those of you who post a chapter of your story every day ( heroicmuse and André DiMera), how many new chapters do you write every week? I guess I am just trying to gauge the work effort. |
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Post by booksoapwriter81 on May 25, 2021 21:03:10 GMT -5
I am living inside my head. I am so inspired by the story I am currently writing that I am constantly thinking about it, waking and sleeping. Sometimes it keeps me up at night because I am writing a scene in my head. I often grab my iPad and jot down bits of dialogue so I don't forget. But even when I'm nowhere near a device, I am continuing to create the story. It has taken hold and will not let go. Does that happen to you? Do you live inside your head, inside your story, and work on the story day and night even when you are doing other things? Or is it just me? This is definitely me! I have these moments when the floodgates just open and start pouring out all these ideas. I love it when it happens because sometimes it is what I need to get a story moving again when I've been stuck for a while. It can be bad if it happens at night though. I will lay awake for hours having it all play out in my head. This also happens to me when I'm in meetings where a lot of the stuff being said doesn't apply to me or my job. My mind wanders off and starts making up stories and/or trying out different scenes for my current project. When I was teaching, I got to the point where I knew my lessons so well that I could teach at the same time that my mind was playing out scenes for my latest book. I guess we all know what my real passion is! I am like you too, heroicmuse. When I got my new job a few months ago, I thought I'd be able to write at night since I don't have to spend those hours grading papers anymore. By the time the day wraps up though, I find that I only have maybe an hour to an hour and a half to write before I need to go to bed though. I am finding that, more often than not, I can't write on work nights. Even if I restrict myself to writing just one scene, I find that once I'm into it, I have a hard time stopping. And the time I have is never enough to finish! So usually, I have to wait until the weekend when I don't have work to do any substantial writing. |
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Post by heroicmuse on May 25, 2021 21:38:18 GMT -5
Here's another question. For those of you who post a chapter of your story every day ( heroicmuse and André DiMera ), how many new chapters do you write every week? I guess I am just trying to gauge the work effort. I try to write 5 new chapters a week. I get stressed out if I have less than a week's worth of chapters in reserve, though sometimes I end up writing two on a Friday to get caught up before I write my previews. |
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Post by André DiMera on May 25, 2021 22:46:31 GMT -5
I like to write about a week or so in advance, so if for example, I'm posting a chapter on Monday, it's highly likely that I'll be writing the chapter for the following Monday sometime that day.
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Post by Kpatch on May 26, 2021 7:29:15 GMT -5
booksoapwriter81 , I love how you describe it as floodgates opening. Yes! That's where I'm at with my story (debuting Monday). I too have created scenes in my head during meetings, but teaching and ideating at the same time? That's impressive! heroicmuse and André DiMera , thank you for that insight. That's exactly what I was thinking too. You need to "replace" the chapter you posted. So for every chapter you post, you need to write a new one, so you never deplete your stock. That's a big commitment.
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Post by booksoapwriter81 on May 26, 2021 21:09:54 GMT -5
Here's another question. For those of you who post a chapter of your story every day ( heroicmuse and André DiMera ), how many new chapters do you write every week? I guess I am just trying to gauge the work effort. I try to write 5 new chapters a week. I get stressed out if I have less than a week's worth of chapters in reserve, though sometimes I end up writing two on a Friday to get caught up before I write my previews. I would love to be able to write this much in one week, heroicmuse. Lately though, I've only been averaging about a chapter. I think it's because I have so many books in my series now that I have to keep stopping and going back to review old storylines just to make sure that I'm tying everything together smoothly and/or referencing character history and plot details correctly. I know that one of the biggest things us soap fans complain about is when the writers don't stay true to a character's history, and I am trying my best to avoid making those kinds of errors in my own work. I also spend time doing research for storylines. Right now, I have a character who was just diagnosed with lung cancer. Since my only knowledge of the disease comes from watching my grandmother suffer through it and eventually die from it when I was eleven years old, I had to research and learn about the different stages, symptoms, and treatments in order to make my character's journey as realistic as possible. |
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Post by booksoapwriter81 on May 26, 2021 21:14:38 GMT -5
booksoapwriter81 , I love how you describe it as floodgates opening. Yes! That's where I'm at with my story (debuting Monday). I too have created scenes in my head during meetings, but teaching and ideating at the same time? That's impressive! , I would normally end up doing it when my students were reading out loud. For example, after teaching Julius Caesar several times a day during the spring for ten years, I knew the play by heart and didn't really need to listen to what they were reading. I could half listen, know when to tell them to stop, and know exactly what we needed to discuss. In the meantime, my mind would wander off because I knew the play by heart. I still can't believe I was able to successfully do that and never have the students catch on to the fact that I was daydreaming either! |
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Post by heroicmuse on May 26, 2021 21:49:28 GMT -5
booksoapwriter81 My fanfiction is more like a job in that I have to have it ready to post every weekday so I have to produce. I'm a lot slower with my regular fiction. I've been working on my new novel since last December and hoping to have it out in October.
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Post by Kpatch on May 27, 2021 8:44:11 GMT -5
heroicmuse, to me that is the hardest part, working on multiple projects at the same time. It's natural to have more enthusiasm for one than the other, and keeping up with both (or more) is a challenge!
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Post by booksoapwriter81 on May 27, 2021 22:18:22 GMT -5
heroicmuse , to me that is the hardest part, working on multiple projects at the same time. It's natural to have more enthusiasm for one than the other, and keeping up with both (or more) is a challenge! I know the challenge of working on multiple projects at the same time too. For the last several years, I have been in this pattern of editing one book while I write another. It can be challenging, but I keep to it because on days when I don't have time to write, I can try to do some editing instead. I do have unfinished projects though. Since my book series takes up so much time, it's hard to find time to complete other writing projects I've started and gotten stuck on. Right now, I have a TV script and another moralistic tale sitting and waiting for my attention because I got really bad writer's block on both and have just been stuck on how to continue for a really long time. I also have some Passions fan fiction I was posting on another site that I should get back to eventually. That's the problem with being a writer. So many ideas but not enough time to write them all! |
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