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superhero_muses--What is the significance of the title of your most recent WiP?
Let's see, I've got 4 WiPs going on right now! One has no title, one has bad placeholder title, one I don't like much, and the last one is "Kill the Envious Moon," which is the continuation of my Bruce/Clark story with a genderbent Clark. The original story, titled "Both Alike in Dignity," had them meeting as teens and jokingly comparing themselves to Romeo and Juliet, so I wanted to use another phrase from the play, and Bruce comparing Clark to the sun always works for me. :)
I turned an important emotional corner this week! My writing has been suffering because when I started writing, my job was much lighter and so I wrote in my free time. Over the last few years, my free time has basically ceased to exist, so this week I've finally committed to treating fic writing like a job--in the sense of deliberately putting writing on my daily to-do lists rather than hoping I'll finish up the list and finally have a chance to write. And I got a few thousand words written almost immediately, so I think it was clearly the right thing to do. If I don't prioritize it up there with work and cleaning, at least sometimes, it's just never going to happen.
What titles are you working with, and how's that going?
Let's see, I've got 4 WiPs going on right now! One has no title, one has bad placeholder title, one I don't like much, and the last one is "Kill the Envious Moon," which is the continuation of my Bruce/Clark story with a genderbent Clark. The original story, titled "Both Alike in Dignity," had them meeting as teens and jokingly comparing themselves to Romeo and Juliet, so I wanted to use another phrase from the play, and Bruce comparing Clark to the sun always works for me. :)
I turned an important emotional corner this week! My writing has been suffering because when I started writing, my job was much lighter and so I wrote in my free time. Over the last few years, my free time has basically ceased to exist, so this week I've finally committed to treating fic writing like a job--in the sense of deliberately putting writing on my daily to-do lists rather than hoping I'll finish up the list and finally have a chance to write. And I got a few thousand words written almost immediately, so I think it was clearly the right thing to do. If I don't prioritize it up there with work and cleaning, at least sometimes, it's just never going to happen.
What titles are you working with, and how's that going?
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Date: 2020-07-24 02:47 pm (UTC)Titles for my WIPs:
Ski Bunnies And Snow Angels
Death's Rain II
The Haunted House (tentative)
Virginal
Canada Dry Ginger Ale And Saltine Crackers
Niagara
Covering For Clark
Goddess Of The Hunt
An eclectic bunch! :)
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Date: 2020-08-10 07:11 pm (UTC)Congrats on hitting that emotional corner. It's been much the same for me. Job has become more demanding, so Write Every Day has actually saved my general writing, even though the past year has impacted me in more emotional ways so I'm not as open about posting on the regular. I hope putting it on the daily to do works out for you!