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  2. How Do You Fend Off Stagnation in Your Works?

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    Recently, I was reading an article discussing the idea of how two of my favourite series were falling back into the cave, refusing to break the mold with new things.  Stagnating.  While I would normally want to argue this fact, I couldn't.  Both Star Wars and Star Trek have remained in their safe little bubbles.  They're pushing things out too little, too late (ie Star Trek and their celebrated first open LGBT character who, while the best character of the series so far, comes far too late to be as groundbreaking as they'd like to think) or rehashing ideas like Star Wars since Disney took over...  (Sorry, that backstory is done... throw tomatoes now...)

    Either way, the article got me thinking, as writers, how do you not fall into the trap and keep stuff, so to speak, fresh?  Rather, do you push your comfort zone and try new things?  How?  And did it work for you?  

    In my case, I branched away from sci fi.  Lately, I'm right back in it, but I've got several that aren't.  The farthest is definitely Hunted...  I'll be the first to admit, I'm probably the last person who thought I'd be writing a vampire fic.  Then there's the wider inclusion of varying characters that kind of started with one I don't have on here, that continued into BaH and throughout the rest of them.  In my case, I think it worked.

    (And I've probably rambled enough that everyone's pulling their hair out in wild frustration or yelling at screens...  So before the throwing knives come out, I'm getting out of here.)

     

     

  12. Strange Things And Habits You Do While Writing

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    While editing off a chapter for one of my many adventures in the creative realm of (please insert colourful metaphor here) insanity that is my writing…  (...Of course, it doesn’t help that I haven’t really written anything in a week, so these are all the buffer chapters I have…)…  Sorry, rambling again…  Anyway, I noticed some of my quirks ‘re-emerged’ from long ago…

    In this case, the suspension of disbelief ‘rule’ I have.  (Yes, I, the insane one, follow some strange rules that probably make no sense...)  Anyway, background for it, at one point it was a three-point system wherein I would give myself leeway to do three things that would require a suspension of disbelief.  (Let’s take, for example, Star Trek: Suspension of Disbelief 1 (Hereafter SoD#): Faster than light travel; SoD2: aliens exist; SoD3: Every known woman of alien/human/...shapeshifter? origin wants to get it on with a certain specific Starfleet Captain…  Well, except two…  So it seems…  There may be a third, but…  Sorry, rambling again...)…  Anyway, the way this rule worked for me was, if there was too many SoDs, then it became too unbelievable and it would take me out of the story…

    So, my question becomes, what sort of strange things do you, as a writer, adhere to?  What sort of things have you ‘grown’ out of?  

  16. Inspiration

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    Much like BW, I've got a million ideas in my head...  Usually fighting each other  (...six things on the go and one trying to be published...too many ideas, not enough time)...

    I can be inspired (and write twenty chapters pretty much non stop) by a simple song lyric or something I've seen in movies or just random thoughts I have...  Which are most of the ideas...  And where the idea for the newest one came from (two lines in a song, lol)...  But that inspiration can be lost just as suddenly too…

    Having a broken spirit kills that inspiration flat dead...  Trust me, I got a lot of Inspiration hidden in the basement...  And for me, that happens a lot... 

    Stress kills...  And when nothing's gone right (Just like right now, laptop's fried itself (I hate this damned city))...  And bad times...  And that feeling that, while I know people are reading, it doesn't feel like it... 

    The inspiration wavers and, oft times, cracks, breaks, and disappears...  I've been lucky lately...  But even then, the inspiration for STA, BaH, CHHW, even Hunted and BP have all wavered because of those factors all coming together right now...  Sucks when you're always thinking the worst…

     

  17. Walkin' in a Writer's Wonderland 2017

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    Posted · Edited by Tcr
    Changed and updated from prior post.

    Okay, I'm definitely in.

    Story: One Last Gift

    Holiday theme: Takes place around Christmas...  I believe the description to my beta was 'A messed up Christmas Carol'.

    Warning: Nosex

    Summary: Full of anger and hate for the Christmas season after the death of his love a year earlier, Daniel Jacobsen has become a grinch of sorts.  But after several drinks at the local bar, he might change his tune with a strange encounter.

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