Snowflake #5 The Impossible Dream

[nrgburst]

Challenge #5

In your own space, talk about an idea you wish you had the time / talent / energy to do.

So I think rodo  named this aptly: The White Whale challenge. Who knows - maybe I'll find the motivation one day to throw myself back into research and get the work done on these, but LBR - I doubt it! 😁So this is probably more of a "Let it go" post! ❄️ Although! I have to admit that I actually did finish a longfic in 2020 after not writing it for 8 years, so never say never! 😅

The Original YA fantasy book - I had this all researched and roughly planned out, and wrote a few chapters, only to stop. I tried to finish this for Nano one year and still got only a little further before giving up again.

A Third Path - Anakin/Padme. This was a Canon AU diverging right at the end of AotC, and I was going to explore the idea of Anakin becoming a Grey Jedi instead of going all Darth and their little family running across the galaxy far far away to keep the twins out of Palpitine's hands. I left it on a cliffie too, oops. Sorry, totally my bad! 😅

Honestly, I think that once that kind of blazing itch inside your brain has fizzled, it's really hard to get it stoked again? What do you guys think?

Comments

[nrgburst]

Oooh, I see! That makes sense to me since you write super longfic! (I am still in awe of the 130K one! 😅) For me, I can usually keep the obsessive need to give a story form going just by re-consuming whatever canon it was multiple times and replying comments etc. which forces me to think about the next bits. I only need to keep up that obsessing thing for a few months though.

Although I realized that is what ended up spurring me to finish my abandoned fic, actually! Huh. Maybe that is what I should do to kick myself in the butt for that Star Wars fic! 👟💥🤯 (Sadly The Phantom Menace and AoTC are Not Great! 😅)

[rodo]

It actually happens for me with all fic that take longer than a weekend to write. And since I don't post non-completed fic anymore, I don't have comments etc. to keep my enthusiasm (or rather, my bad conscience) going either.

It's worth a try! And there's nothing wrong with getting fannish/obsessive about Not Great canons - those are the best to get obsessed over sometimes!