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

[rhoda_rants]

I dunno. I think it depends on the fic, and the fandom, honestly. With me, I seem to flit between different creative "modes" as I can them. When I'm in Binge-Watch Mode, like I am now, all my creative energy goes towards whatever I'm binging, whether that's making icons, writing an essay series, looking up fanvids, whatever. When I'm in Writing Mode, I can churn out a decent word count on a semi-regular basis, but that is unpredictable and very hard to get back. Or if I'm in Reading Mode, I'm just consuming book after book or fic after fic, and have a read hard time producing anything myself. It's very rare for any of those to overlap.

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Oooh, that sounds similar and yet different to the way I do things! Like my reading and writing modes are usually separate too, but I usually binge/write together - like it's almost a positive feedback loop of sorts? So writing will make me realize I need to re-watch to confirm a certain detail, and re-watching will make me realize there's a parallel that I need to make a GIFset for, and then people's tags on the GIFset will make realize I need to write a certain scene etc etc.
It's so neat to hear the ways different people are fannish! 🥰🙌