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purlsandpearlsI spend way too much time worldbuilding when I sit down to write. I get bogged down in the minutiae of the world before I actually make characters who live in it, and then when I get to character creation, I'm spending forever trying to make backstories and find names and I never get around to making them *do* anything.
So maybe I should just do the worldbuilding without wanting to write a story, and make characters without stories in mind. But then I'll end up with dozens of half-finished worlds. Ugh. Stupid ADHD, always keeping me from doing what I want to. Why can't I finish anything?
Speaking of finishing, I really should write another chapter or two for First Days. I think I last posted to it in July? Way too long ago. I think I'm at their first Adult Date? Should probably reread the thing before I write more on it. Welp. I've been wanting to showcase the firsts of S/K's relationship, but I'm also wanting to showcase more deep and intimate things. No sex because HAH I couldn't write a good lemon to save my life. (well, I probably could, but I'm just gonna...not.)
But I want to explore the troubling side of their relationship rather than just all the happy sunny fun parts. I've already done that a bit, with Sesshoumaru getting all mad at Kagome over stupid high school bullshit and ragequitting their relationship for like five years until OH LOOK they're at the same university in the same coffeeshop and the last time they spoke Sesshoumaru was busy being an ass and Kagome was busy calling him on his shit and now they've awkwardly tried to move past it and they've admitted their TWU WUV (honestly tho I love the Grumpy One is soft for the Sunshine One cliche which is why I'm all over this pairing) and now I've gotta write their First Date and I don't know what the hell to do for it. I've never had Proper Dating experience because I've kinda fallen into all my relationships (hooooo boy) and I don't know what to do on a Date when you're at the getting-to-know-you stage and doubly so for the getting-to-know-you-AGAIN stage because that's where they're at. My fiance and I kinda had that stage but like, we were ultra-LDR so we didn't *~*date*~* we just sat on Skype (actually Google Hangouts for the most part) forever. Back In the Day when we first met it was on MSN but that got killed between us MSNing and us admitting Feelings.
ANYWAYS I don't know if I want to add in another conflict, though, because I feel like the high-school-bullshit blowup they had was hard enough to write? But something needs to happen, maybe An Accident or some other Traumatic Experience. Maybe the Traumatic Experience could result in them moving in together. Hmm. This could work.
...I've just written the subject for this post because I can never really title them until after I've gotten on a roll with posting, but I feel like I'm gonna have a lot of Fall Out Boy and Panic! at the Disco circa 2008 style titles, because who doesn't love the long-ass run-on titles?
Back to waffling, I suppose. Maybe in Word, this time, instead of on the tablet, because the sticky-back thing that has the stand attached keeps trying to fall off. Very frustrating.
So maybe I should just do the worldbuilding without wanting to write a story, and make characters without stories in mind. But then I'll end up with dozens of half-finished worlds. Ugh. Stupid ADHD, always keeping me from doing what I want to. Why can't I finish anything?
Speaking of finishing, I really should write another chapter or two for First Days. I think I last posted to it in July? Way too long ago. I think I'm at their first Adult Date? Should probably reread the thing before I write more on it. Welp. I've been wanting to showcase the firsts of S/K's relationship, but I'm also wanting to showcase more deep and intimate things. No sex because HAH I couldn't write a good lemon to save my life. (well, I probably could, but I'm just gonna...not.)
But I want to explore the troubling side of their relationship rather than just all the happy sunny fun parts. I've already done that a bit, with Sesshoumaru getting all mad at Kagome over stupid high school bullshit and ragequitting their relationship for like five years until OH LOOK they're at the same university in the same coffeeshop and the last time they spoke Sesshoumaru was busy being an ass and Kagome was busy calling him on his shit and now they've awkwardly tried to move past it and they've admitted their TWU WUV (honestly tho I love the Grumpy One is soft for the Sunshine One cliche which is why I'm all over this pairing) and now I've gotta write their First Date and I don't know what the hell to do for it. I've never had Proper Dating experience because I've kinda fallen into all my relationships (hooooo boy) and I don't know what to do on a Date when you're at the getting-to-know-you stage and doubly so for the getting-to-know-you-AGAIN stage because that's where they're at. My fiance and I kinda had that stage but like, we were ultra-LDR so we didn't *~*date*~* we just sat on Skype (actually Google Hangouts for the most part) forever. Back In the Day when we first met it was on MSN but that got killed between us MSNing and us admitting Feelings.
ANYWAYS I don't know if I want to add in another conflict, though, because I feel like the high-school-bullshit blowup they had was hard enough to write? But something needs to happen, maybe An Accident or some other Traumatic Experience. Maybe the Traumatic Experience could result in them moving in together. Hmm. This could work.
...I've just written the subject for this post because I can never really title them until after I've gotten on a roll with posting, but I feel like I'm gonna have a lot of Fall Out Boy and Panic! at the Disco circa 2008 style titles, because who doesn't love the long-ass run-on titles?
Back to waffling, I suppose. Maybe in Word, this time, instead of on the tablet, because the sticky-back thing that has the stand attached keeps trying to fall off. Very frustrating.
