I think you're right that letting things percolate is sometimes best. Chuck Wendig says that sometimes it's just not the right time for certain project. ::nods sagely:: He is the writing guru after all. That's how I feel about my pirates & werewolf hunters historical 3-part series set in the 1700s. It will happen someday, just not now. I'm glad to hear that you haven't given it up.
Ravurian made an interesting suggesting about treating it more like a fandom project, and writing fic and crossovers with my characters as though they were from an established canon, which I think might be a fun and motivational way to come at it. Yes! This is what I'm trying to do with the latest queer romance I'm working on. I keep bouncing back and forth between original fiction to work on. And finally I settled on a piece that I have 30k of an Inception AU for. I started it about 3 years back and it never went anywhere because I fell out of Inception writing. It doesn't look anything like Inception, but it looks a lot like Hitchcock, so I'm trying to rewrite it as an original fic not so blatantly cribbed from Hitchcock. Someone, I think it was junkshop disco, suggested writing lots of fanfiction for your fiction to help yourself figure your characters out, like a lot of random scenes and backstory and just whatever comes into your head. It doesn't have to fit in THE PLOT. This might also be a good way to let the characters take shape. I find it helps.
And perhaps this summer we could get back to our writing group? There's no way it can happen in the spring, unfortunately, because of work grinding me down with the force of 10 tons of bricks.
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Ravurian made an interesting suggesting about treating it more like a fandom project, and writing fic and crossovers with my characters as though they were from an established canon, which I think might be a fun and motivational way to come at it. Yes! This is what I'm trying to do with the latest queer romance I'm working on. I keep bouncing back and forth between original fiction to work on. And finally I settled on a piece that I have 30k of an Inception AU for. I started it about 3 years back and it never went anywhere because I fell out of Inception writing. It doesn't look anything like Inception, but it looks a lot like Hitchcock, so I'm trying to rewrite it as an original fic not so blatantly cribbed from Hitchcock. Someone, I think it was junkshop disco, suggested writing lots of fanfiction for your fiction to help yourself figure your characters out, like a lot of random scenes and backstory and just whatever comes into your head. It doesn't have to fit in THE PLOT. This might also be a good way to let the characters take shape. I find it helps.
And perhaps this summer we could get back to our writing group? There's no way it can happen in the spring, unfortunately, because of work grinding me down with the force of 10 tons of bricks.