A TAF Story...?

[Tornado]

How about an excerpt?

[TGRF]

Originally Posted by Tornado

How about an excerpt?

... I should do that...

~TGRF.

[TheAverageFan]

Originally Posted by The Grim Reaper's Friend

Partly because my own fiction is having trouble getting off the ground. But mostly because you're writing it.

Well of course it's having trouble getting off the ground if you didn't tell me I was supposed to write it

~TAF

[TheAverageFan]

The Moon Has Wings is now at 60 pages, around maybe 40% or so done according to the Events List. I don't need it to be entirely finished before I begin submitting it, just around 50 to 80%.

I might--no promises, NO PROMISES!!--be able to begin uploading chapters close to Halloween. Lovely time of year for a spooky zombie story or whatever. In a perfect world anyway. We shall see.

~TAF, hype and yada yada yada...

[TGRF]

Originally Posted by TheAverageFan

The Moon Has Wings is now at 60 pages, around maybe 40% or so done according to the Events List. I don't need it to be entirely finished before I begin submitting it, just around 50 to 80%.

I might--no promises, NO PROMISES!!--be able to begin uploading chapters close to Halloween. Lovely time of year for a spooky zombie story or whatever. In a perfect world anyway. We shall see.

~TAF, hype and yada yada yada...

Ah crap. You're winning the race. Faster, TGRF! Write faster!



~TGRF, eager.

[TheAverageFan]

@kevindola @The Grim Reaper's Friend @TheTravelingScaper @TREX @Marro_Warlord @NecroBlade @Sir Heroscape @TalesOfValhallaOfficial @Tornado @Zetsubo

The Moon Has Wings is officially up, you lucky dogs! Certainly won't be a disaster! Check it out.

And not to worry, Legacies voters. I will get to that story one day, one day...

~TAF

[TalesOfValhallaOfficial]

Originally Posted by TheAverageFan

@kevindola @The Grim Reaper's Friend @TheTravelingScaper @TREX @Marro_Warlord @NecroBlade @Sir Heroscape @TalesOfValhallaOfficial @Tornado @Zetsubo

The Moon Has Wings is officially up, you lucky dogs! Certainly won't be a disaster! Check it out.

And not to worry, Legacies voters. I will get to that story one day, one day...

~TAF

Thanks for the heads up! I am about to post some new stop motion content myself! Keep up the good work! I love learning from you guys!

[TheAverageFan]

Good news bad news time.

The bad news is that due to a new schedule for the new year, I'll be a lot busier than usual. As such I will have far less time for writing. Although I still have the same 24 hours a day, I've additionally been wracked with a nasty case of the writer's block as of late. As such The Moon Has Wings will have to have a chapter uploaded every other week instead of every week (so kinda like it is already except with less excuses).

Perhaps if I can snap out of the block and get back into the swing of things production will pick back up but until then just letting you guys know.

The good news is that... uh... actually there is no good news. I guess the good news is that since reader interest for TMHW is fairly low at the moment, not many people will suffer due to the slower schedule. Way I see things, as long as it gets finished then it's a job well done. That way future generations will be able to look back and appreciate it fully and say things like "Wow, that was stupendous! Sure glad I didn't have to wait every month for the ****er who wrote this to upload every single chapter! I can just read through the whole thing at my leisure!" Or something like that. Nothing worse than unfinished stories.

~TAF

[TGRF]

I'm feeling really bad about not reading it, being, you know... the only other guy in the forum, basically.

I hope you get your writer's block worked out. My advice is to take a break and then work backwards. Start with the end instead of the beginning. Or any direction, really. Just approach it from a different angle.

~TGRF.

[TheAverageFan]

Typically I tend to write things very quickly in one sitting when I hit my stride. Almost all of my Contest entries were written in only 2 or 3 sittings, and a good 20% chunk of Thunderstorm was written in just one night (hit a stride so hard I spent all of 10:00 to 6:00 just straight up writing). Editing notwithstanding, of course. So I think if I get out of this slump I'll be able to make up for it.

That being said, with a few exceptions, I'd personally rather not skip ahead and work backwards. As I've said in the past, if I can't be bothered to write a particular bit, how is the audience supposed to be bothered to read it?

~TAF

[TGRF]

Originally Posted by TheAverageFan

Typically I tend to write things very quickly in one sitting when I hit my stride. Almost all of my Contest entries were written in only 2 or 3 sittings, and a good 20% chunk of Thunderstorm was written in just one night (hit a stride so hard I spent all of 10:00 to 6:00 just straight up writing). Editing notwithstanding, of course. So I think if I get out of this slump I'll be able to make up for it.

That being said, with a few exceptions, I'd personally rather not skip ahead and work backwards. As I've said in the past, if I can't be bothered to write a particular bit, how is the audience supposed to be bothered to read it?

~TAF

Ah, that's another matter. I was thinking about outlining/developing. If the problem is writing, then I would suggest increasing the tension. Work on the inherent tension in the setting.

In an entry for the competition, I once had to get Agent Carr from point A to point B. It wasn't overly interesting, so after thinking about it some, I added an aerial bombardment by soulborg attack ships into the mix. Perfect! You can also do the same thing on a smaller scale by creating tension in conversation.

Basically just get the reader to ask himself questions (commonly, 'what is going on?' or 'why is this the case?'). He'll keep reading to find the answer.

~TGRF.

[TheAverageFan]

The main problem is that if I ain't in the writing mood, I just can't write. Just gotta wait until I am. No cure for that I suppose.

~TAF