Snowflake #5 The Impossible Dream

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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

[enemytosleep]

I feel you on the spark and fizzle with WIPs. I was saying on someone else's post that I wonder if a Plot Bunny Rescue community would be a worthy idea? So folks could adopt them out to maybe see an ending? I know I've read more than one WIP over the years that I probably could have written a chapter or two to complete if I'd had the thumbs up.

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Elizabeth Gilbert wrote a book on the creative process (Big Magic) and one of the chapters is about how one idea she'd had for a novel (about a botanist doing something specific) was something she researched and plotted out but never actually wrote... and then a few years later somebody else published a book with an eerily similar premise. This was proof to her that the idea found somebody else to nurture it and give it life. So you might be onto something! An adoption agency comm of sorts?