I flinch when you are nice

[here_inmyhead]

Ugh, I have too many unfinished fic projects. Hell, most of them are barely even started. It's not beginning fics I have trouble with--I can write beginnings fine. It's effing continuing to work on them so I don't have just an opening paragraph or a sentence anymore. What a pain in the neck. And I DO want to post something, but it's like... how do I go about it? How do I start? Usually I have a clear idea of a beginning or opening scene, but for this megalong Earthbound fic I'm starting, I just can't... get it right. As in, I don't know what the hell the opening scene or beginning is in the first place. Great, I had a semblance of a plot, key scenes, and plot bunnies and everything. Fuck.

Then there's the Giygas fic, where I've miracuously made it around the middle of the second page. I'd go on, but one nagging little thought stopped me: Geigue from Earthbound 0/Mother 1 is the same entity/villain as Giygas is, right? I know Geigue is an alien, and his origins are completely different from the one I layed out in my fic, but I don't want to break or ruin continuity. Of course, I could assume EB0 didn't happen (at least not in EB/Mother 2 universe), considering both games stand on their own, but... it's gonna nag me. I'm still at Magicant in EB0, so it's going to take AEONS before I get to know anything about Geigue--I don't want to spoil myself on Wikipedia though. I don't want to ruin the ending for me or be spoiled more than I already have.

*sigh* I could use a Earthbound series beta reader.

I don't want to whine. Maybe I should just go to bed so I don't oversleep and miss first class tomorrow. But I still want to create too. Just, I dunno... finish something. Felt like typing that out so maybe I can sort things better.

Comments

[chankaylore.livejournal.com]

I'm sort of the same way with my writing, except in reverse. Bashing out the middle or ending of a story is fine with me; it's just cracking past that opening scene, or trying to get to the next plot point and not having it sound like something other than filler.

Or worse, when I forget to write plot points down and completely forget why I started writing a story in the first place (happens FAR too often).