Okay, so how about a challenge specifically for finishing WiPs (or languishing story ideas), where you specify the story/stories you want to finish when you sign up? There can be a weekly check-in along the lines of Sunday Six, where everyone either posts in their own DW or on a community post. (Maybe we can stagger check-ins with everyone choosing a weekday that works for them.)
I'm still thinking about the time frame and more ways to motivate people without stress, but something along those lines, perhaps?
I pretty much always write what I want to write, but usually what I want to write is what I want to read too.
Yeah, that actually made me very curious, and it is most definitely very interesting! I am trying to think back, but I think that - while I have definitely written stories that I was *ashamed* of wanting to read - I've never actually written something that I didn't want to read. Except for some very short drabbles that were the result of prompts that didn't appeal to me... and I couldn't say I actually wanted to write those.
What might have come closest was my attempt at writing a prequel to my one Eroica story, which would have filled in the backstory for one of the main characters in a very interesting way. But it turned out to be too harrowing for me to write (it would have been third person POV, and the narrator would not have understood what he was seeing at all, but... major warning territory there). I actually would have liked to read that story, even though it would have been hard even as a reader, but as a writer, it was just too much.
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Date: 2020-03-31 11:19 am (UTC)I'm still thinking about the time frame and more ways to motivate people without stress, but something along those lines, perhaps?
I pretty much always write what I want to write, but usually what I want to write is what I want to read too.
Yeah, that actually made me very curious, and it is most definitely very interesting! I am trying to think back, but I think that - while I have definitely written stories that I was *ashamed* of wanting to read - I've never actually written something that I didn't want to read. Except for some very short drabbles that were the result of prompts that didn't appeal to me... and I couldn't say I actually wanted to write those.
What might have come closest was my attempt at writing a prequel to my one Eroica story, which would have filled in the backstory for one of the main characters in a very interesting way. But it turned out to be too harrowing for me to write (it would have been third person POV, and the narrator would not have understood what he was seeing at all, but... major warning territory there). I actually would have liked to read that story, even though it would have been hard even as a reader, but as a writer, it was just too much.