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Comments on Profile Post by Daytripper

  1. Chastity
    Chastity
    It depends. I would say you should be capable of updating any given story that you're working on at least once per week, and once you reach the point where you can't do that any more, avoid adding new stories until you can. Your ideas can become part of a backlog, which also has the helpful secondary effect of encouraging you not to waste time on ideas that you won't still care about in a week or month.
    Feb 7, 2022
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  2. Daytripper
    Daytripper
    I have uploaded at least ten stories, each with at least two chapters. I’m worried about quantity over quality but a combination of my ADHD and wild muse make it difficult to focus on one particular story.
    Feb 7, 2022
  3. Chastity
    Chastity
    That's why you should focus on stories for which your muse has kept interest going for a while. Everybody has fleeting story ideas that they don't follow through on, but you'll have ideas you're actually interested in if you keep going.
    Feb 7, 2022
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  4. Daytripper
    Daytripper
    How do I decide which my muse is more interested in?
    Feb 7, 2022
  5. Chastity
    Chastity
    By sitting on them. Make a document or just keep in memory the ideas you have. If you're still interested in writing X after a month or two, it's probably something you'll be interested in writing. If you're not, it's probably not.
    Feb 7, 2022
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  6. Daytripper
    Daytripper
    It should be noted that some of my stories that I posted I haven’t really planned out. I just wrote them because of my muse. I tried writing outlines afterwards but their all unfinished.
    Feb 7, 2022
  7. Chastity
    Chastity
    It's not about outlines or anything like that. If you're not an outliner, don't outline. It's about the ability for an idea to sustain interest. If you can't put in the back of your head, or on a piece of paper, "guy mind controls and body-edits his way across the DC universe" or something, and keep it as something that interests you for a month without writing it, it won't sustain interest with writing it.
    Feb 7, 2022
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  8. Daytripper
    Daytripper
    I understand. My struggle mainly comes with my ADHD making it difficult to find a story to focus on.
    Feb 7, 2022
  9. Chastity
    Chastity
    I have lots of story ideas, and relatively few abandoned quests/stories. The ones that I abandoned were often abandoned because it was something I started writing on a whim, and thus quickly lost steam.

    If you really can't keep an idea on the back of your head and still be interested in it in a month's time, then probably you should write short stories or one-shots rather than longer works.
    Feb 7, 2022
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  10. Daytripper
    Daytripper
    Sorry for the late reply. I think I’ll try to work on two stories and at least try to write a chapter on a weekly basis.
    Feb 12, 2022