blackbird

Wow, alot of people replied. Unfortunately, none of you have offered me any of that Magic Author Faery Dust yet I guess part of the problem here is that I haven't decided on any particular plot yet. Usually once I do that, I end up deciding it's stupid and throw it out. Maybe I should just commit to not doing that and just run with whatever I come up with? Dunno. I'll formulate a more coherent response for you wonderful people tomorrow.

I've been prodding at a blank document for a couple days now and typing a beginning, then deleting it, lather, rinse, repeat until I'm ready to kick something. I end up doing this alot, even with writing prompts. Nothing ever seems good enough as a beginning and I don't like writing from the middle/end either. How do ya'll start your stories/come up with the beginning you end up using?

I keep writing it. I've been doing that for about a year now. Sometimes it sits there for a couple months with no work, sometimes I write more every night for a week. It's been good for me in some ways, but I have to be careful to pick times to write when I'm not overly depressed, because dwelling on it doesn't help. I think it's very much like therapy, in that forcing yourself to keep going isn't a good idea, unless it's done for the right reasons. The right reasons being that you know it'll help you when it's done, the wrong reasons being because you feel obligated to produce something for others to read. Unless of course, that helps you Also, like therapy, it's good to have a supportive environment to go to if writing it gets to be difficult for you.

Kurt: I'm planning on dropping in there, occasionally. That's how I got to know everyone on baf. Jack Scribe: *jumps at big red letters!* I'm always paranoid about new peoples. I prefer that everyone like me, whether I'll ever meet em or not. Andy: People do indeed seem friendly here, but this is an alien planet and the hostiles may be dangerous. I'm planning to write some of the writing prompts today maybes.

So...I'm Raven. Otherwise, I guess there's not much to say, I really loved the stories I read here and I figured joining would give me a kick in the butt that'll make me write more often, so I joined. It's kinda awkward here though, at the moment, since everyone seems to know everyone or at least someone and I don't. I suspect that's just me being paranoid that people won't like me though.

Google. I was looking for a fiction site that was geared to gay people, instead of the usual hetero stuff.