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onetrueking wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 3:04 pm You ever feel this after you've already committed to a plot line you're working, or even after you've already finished the work?

I'm having a massive one now. I've been writing my fic by hand, consumed 3 whole notebooks for the past month on this, and suddenly, I have a gremlin of an idea that requires me to scrap everything and start over.

Fuck me.

onetrueking wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 3:04 pm You ever feel this after you've already committed to a plot line you're working, or even after you've already finished the work?

I'm having a massive one now. I've been writing my fic by hand, consumed 3 whole notebooks for the past month on this, and suddenly, I have a gremlin of an idea that requires me to scrap everything and start over.

Fuck me.

Peril wrote: Mon Feb 03, 2025 10:10 am I think that's the issue with creating based on hyperfixations. At some point everything becomes a bore, has flaws, whatever. You only finish material if you stick out and rewrite it as many times as you feel is necessary. You need to stick with an idea past the honeymoon period - it's the only way to succeed.

I see this a lot with writers, really, all types of content creators. They have one story/product they wrote in a furious fit of passion, and they believe it's the only way to create. It's low-key self-sabotage, because those people then have like 340 WIPs, and nothing's ever done, but you see them writing all the damn time.

I genuinely believe people need to stop romanticizing the idea of writing only out of hyperfixation, you'll never get anything done. You'll find yourself looking back at like 3 finished products you're proud of after 300 years of writing

HopeForTheWitch wrote: Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:17 am

Peril wrote: Mon Feb 03, 2025 10:10 am I think that's the issue with creating based on hyperfixations. At some point everything becomes a bore, has flaws, whatever. You only finish material if you stick out and rewrite it as many times as you feel is necessary. You need to stick with an idea past the honeymoon period - it's the only way to succeed.

I see this a lot with writers, really, all types of content creators. They have one story/product they wrote in a furious fit of passion, and they believe it's the only way to create. It's low-key self-sabotage, because those people then have like 340 WIPs, and nothing's ever done, but you see them writing all the damn time.

I genuinely believe people need to stop romanticizing the idea of writing only out of hyperfixation, you'll never get anything done. You'll find yourself looking back at like 3 finished products you're proud of after 300 years of writing

This is unfortunately true, or at least, it rings true for people with brains like mine: people who jump from shiny to shiny and rarely look back at old works and only then to cry about how it wasn't bad, where is the rest, why does it not write itself? I blame ADHD-brain for the lack of focus, but tbh, once I get bored of a project, the idea of having to keep working on it makes me nauseous As much as I'd like to push through that phase until I regain interest, I just can't get myself to do it.

Peril wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 1:08 am

HopeForTheWitch wrote: Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:17 am

Peril wrote: Mon Feb 03, 2025 10:10 am I think that's the issue with creating based on hyperfixations. At some point everything becomes a bore, has flaws, whatever. You only finish material if you stick out and rewrite it as many times as you feel is necessary. You need to stick with an idea past the honeymoon period - it's the only way to succeed.

I see this a lot with writers, really, all types of content creators. They have one story/product they wrote in a furious fit of passion, and they believe it's the only way to create. It's low-key self-sabotage, because those people then have like 340 WIPs, and nothing's ever done, but you see them writing all the damn time.

I genuinely believe people need to stop romanticizing the idea of writing only out of hyperfixation, you'll never get anything done. You'll find yourself looking back at like 3 finished products you're proud of after 300 years of writing

This is unfortunately true, or at least, it rings true for people with brains like mine: people who jump from shiny to shiny and rarely look back at old works and only then to cry about how it wasn't bad, where is the rest, why does it not write itself? I blame ADHD-brain for the lack of focus, but tbh, once I get bored of a project, the idea of having to keep working on it makes me nauseous As much as I'd like to push through that phase until I regain interest, I just can't get myself to do it.

The only thing I've found to be effective was entirely giving up on making things until I encounter something so impressive that I feel compelled to actually create, and then even the process feels fresh, because I haven't actually made anything in ages

If you stopped writing for a month, and watched others do it, it might seem way more exciting.

Peril wrote: Mon Feb 03, 2025 10:10 am

onetrueking wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 3:04 pm You ever feel this after you've already committed to a plot line you're working, or even after you've already finished the work?

I'm having a massive one now. I've been writing my fic by hand, consumed 3 whole notebooks for the past month on this, and suddenly, I have a gremlin of an idea that requires me to scrap everything and start over.

Fuck me.

I think that's the issue with creating based on hyperfixations. At some point everything becomes a bore, has flaws, whatever. You only finish material if you stick out and rewrite it as many times as you feel is necessary. You need to stick with an idea past the honeymoon period - it's the only way to succeed.

I see this a lot with writers, really, all types of content creators. They have one story/product they wrote in a furious fit of passion, and they believe it's the only way to create. It's low-key self-sabotage, because those people then have like 340 WIPs, and nothing's ever done, but you see them writing all the damn time.

I genuinely believe people need to stop romanticizing the idea of writing only out of hyperfixation, you'll never get anything done. You'll find yourself looking back at like 3 finished products you're proud of after 300 years of writing