huggermugger

I have over 150K of WIP fanfic on my hard drive. This does not include original fiction, nor does it include the bits and pieces I’ve written in notebooks and not transcribed onto my PC.

It bothers me that I start things and then start another and another without finishing the other first. Some are years old. I work on it a little everyday, but it’s usually a few paragraphs in each piece (about 100 stories) and never finishing one specific story. I try to make myself do it, but it doesn’t work.

I’m thinking maybe I’ll post some of the more complete ones to my journal, and have them be interludes that jump about it time. It would get it off my plate that way, and if I do decide to revisit it, I can just post another companion piece or vignette?

Last year I did the “mini” NaNoWriMo, which I think was 3000 words? (100 per day min.) I aimed to write 30 short vignettes, and though I hit well over 30K words, I still have 2 “near to completion” and about 6 more that are little more than outlines. So, while I met the target, I didn’t really finish.

Thought I’d do the proper novel length this year, as I’ve had two different ideas jumping about in my brain for some time. I’m just nervous because I’m supposed to be doing school stuff (and I’m not really being successful there). Really, I should defer ‘til next time, yet I know I’ll end up procrastinating on school regardless.

Should I do it? I’ll feel bad if I start but don’t finish. Part of me knows I could do both, if I make myself.