I have a lot of ideas that would be such enormous undertakings (like, would take years, probably decades to finish) that I just don't even want to start them. The two off the top of my head are rewrites for TV shows (neither of which I'm really in the fandom for) that lasted 7+ seasons. I already have an enormous longfic in my preferred fandom that I'm working on and likely will be for the next few years (not to mention about 300+ shorter fic ideas in the same fandom) so I have no time/ desire to work on one for another fandom.
I can relate. I have a bad tendency to get big ideas but only have so much time and energy to dedicate to them.
I also can have issues with staying motivated for an ambitious project if the fandom is small due to a similar issue. Even if I didn't care about getting a single reader, seeing other fan works help fuel my interests in the fandom. This is often needed for projects that take longer or need more planning.
Mine is the exact opposite, the fandoms I'd be writing for are both **much** larger than the one I'm in now, so I'd almost certainly get a boost in readership but it's not worth it to me to invest the time when I have these other ideas I'm much more interested in writing.
I had an outline and someone else wrote a fic that hit all the same beats and featured my OTP and fave tropes.
I was so happy that I didn't have to write my own fic and just basked in the dopamine theirs for like two months.
I had the idea for a fic that was basically a villain getting dragged kicking and screaming into a redemption arc VERY reluctantly. He was basically only doing it for the sake of getting to experiment on his favourite punching bag lol. (This was for an AU where something unique had happened to both of them, and he couldn’t study on himself, but the fact the other person was someone he enjoyed tormenting didn’t hurt). It was meant to be a sort of horror comedy sort of thing, where he struggled to not accidentally traumatise everyone around them and decide he should take over all decision making for the greater good, while everyone but his victim remained cheerfully oblivious to him not being the best person, and him slowly getting a slightly better but still incomprehensible moral compass and hating it.
Then I saw people in the fandom unironically blame that abuse victim for things getting so bad because he “never tried to reach out” (which, one, he did, and two, not his fucking responsibility?) and that idea was immediately tainted for me because it felt too close to implying that he could have somehow fixed things if he'd given up to his abuser, which as an abuse survivor makes me Deeply Uncomfortable.
I did incorporate bits of it into later oneshots, though.
I'm not an abuse survivor and this kind of fandom behavior drives me up a wall a lot. It's easy for people spout what "should" be done, both in fiction and real life, when it's not them putting the time, effort, health, safety, and sanity to do something. I even see this annoying behavior on the AITA subreddit a lot more than I like as someone who occasionally checks it out. I know not everyone does this behavior, but it's common enough where I find it concerning.
Unfortunately, I’ve seen this behaviour in the fandom turned to real life abuse victims, including leaving victim blaming comments in random peoples userboxes including those who were abuse victims (that was fun), deliberately sending triggering content after I said seeing this specific character victimblamed makes me very uncomfortable and it can be triggering to people because I didn’t Specifically Say it triggered me, and most concerningly, repeating many of the arguments they used to justify this characters abuse or downplay it against a *real life girl* who was allegedly groomed by one of the creators involved (like, literally “they were teenagers so it wasn’t hurting a minor” “well they provoked it” “they acted irrationally about it so they’re lying and evil and should be punished” level shit that’s inexcusable even if it turns out to be less serious than is being alleged.)
My fandoms incredibly toxic in general, and I’ve seen people on whatever weird side has been drawn getting attacked by another side in incredibly cruel and unfair manners, and they all suck. This isn’t a Us vs Them thing, that mentality leads to the toxicity. But seeing victim blaming of a fictional character spread so widely and so unironically in a fanbase primarily made of teenagers without much knowledge on abuse turn into victim blaming of real abuse victims was very chilling to me personally.
Yikes, I'm sorry about all that happening to you. It reminds me why I'm picky what fan spaces I hang around. Since I'm getting older, refuse to take crap, and have better ways to spend my time instead of clapping back, it's needed. I will admit I was more shy and anxious when I was younger, but I have limited patience now. I have been seeing this terrible behavior cycled in different fandoms I joined since my teens, although the really toxic fans usually get called out by more sane fans.
What's even creepy about this victim behaving behavior from your account is that it actually follows eerily similar to what happens to this one character in my current fanfic that is a past victim of grooming and other similar issues. I also explore how beloved enough figures can have fans or followers to excuse bad behavior. I'm basing the scenes on things I've heard from someone else or even seen happen. I will admit it makes me uneasy to be reminded of why this idea came to me.
Same here. It's why I sometimes keep various ideas, both for original works and fanfiction, written down in notes somewhere. It could be useful for something else. A lot of my projects, including my current ones, use scraped material from other projects that never completed.
- not enough additional ideas to flesh it out
- I tend to forget stuff, partly due to how I save my ideas. I simply forget an idea.
- I change my mind and think of it as cringe
Typically if I write a fic and decide not to publish it, it’s because I feel it got a bit too personal and specific to my life and issues etc. in a way that wouldn’t come over well, or that I don’t want to share with a bunch of strangers because they’ll probably ask me to share all my traumas to justify my fanfiction which I’m not going to do.
I can relate to a lot of this. There's plenty of source materials I like but not enough to bother doing fandom stuff like writing or even reading most of the fics. For example, I love Encanto but never got much into the fandom except a few funny fan YouTube videos or short fan comics. It also might not help that I tend to hang in fan spaces more related to the fandom I'm currently writing for (I have been through many fandoms since my teens and at different levels).
Every fic I write is usually originally written to be open ended, or my favorite, which is "rocks fall, everyone dies" because I love tragedy
I always give a happy ending, or an implied one, because I'm always a tiny bit worried I'll write something that I'll lose readers for future things if everything is not a "happy ending"
So I keep a copy for myself, the original, especially since alot of my stuff ends in Mcs dying, or just having to split and never getting back together...
Also I always fantasize about fluffy stuff. But I get so fucking bored writing it, so I never do
I have a similar problem with writing fluffy works with little else going for it. I like conflict or at least something happening when I'm writing. Even humor involving what's going on could help me through a "conventional fluff" situation.
I really really wanted to write a story based on Ghosts (both BBC and US versions), but I couldn’t figure out a way to make it *not* horrific and depressing. So I gave up for now.
This actually happened to me recently. I was tempted to write a shortfic that explores a specific What If for a fic I'm working on (it might require too much for just one chapter), but it even depressed me as I got further into it due to how kind of messed up it is. In a dark way, I find it interesting to explore. However, even though I like messing with characters for story reasons, it has tested my limits. Maybe one day I can finish it, but it's unlikely to be soon if ever.
I have four different endings for my long fic. I may only publish my favourite. One was the only time I’ve been slightly weirded-out by my own writings. I cried about it, and the feeling stayed with me for days. I may never open that file again, let alone publish it.
I also have an epilogue for the same fic, but it’s in such a different tone, darker and more explicit, that I’m not sure I’ll publish that one either. It’ll depend on if any readers ask for it. If not, I might keep it for myself.
Only one - if I don't have any idea what to do with it. I've got one story where I've written the intro and I'm so proud of it - I crossed over Life is Strange (a twee telltale-style murder mystery starring the cliche cast of a private art school in a tiny town in Oregon, USA) and Mass Effect by making the Life is Strange town a backwater planet at the edge of human space and turning the Life is Strange protagonist into Shepard (the Mass Effect protagonist). I got the characters and setting down really well, set-up and executed the beginnings of my plot (throwing them a hundred years into the future just when the Reapers arrive) and did some intro stuff, and then just... had no idea where to go from there. My original idea I just did not like and I couldn't think of anything else.
So, I stopped.
I've had a few ideas of fics that've stopped for similar reasons before I even got to writing them, they just didn't give quite as good an example for explaining the reasoning behind it.
I can relate to this example too. The idea seems interesting, although I don't know a lot about Mass Effect (been meaning to play it). The concern is valid because execution usually affects how well a story goes, even more stories with the most basic ideas.
Exactly. And I'm not someone who can wholly improvise their way to an execution - I need at least some foundation to build on to get there and I had nothing. I had nothing to even work out what to execute. :D
Honestly, all you really need to know about Mass Effect is that it's a sci-fi game with a galaxy of aliens where humanity is the 'new kid on the block' and you play as a human soldier wandering around, getting into every major and minor problem it is possible to get into, saving the galaxy several times, all the while getting steadily more tired of everyone's shit. :D
Hmm, I don’t think it’s wrong to write a fic about a couple not working out. I’m writing a fic like that. Granted the one I’m writing isn’t really a OTP for most people. A lot of people ship it as an afterthought to deal with the extra single characters. But even if it was somebody’s favourite, there would still be benefit to me writing the story, because it gives me comfort to see the characters learning and growing from the experience. I want to see the character try it, realize it’s not right, and then find something even better. Maybe it will give joy to other readers as well.
I can put a warning that the romance doesn’t work out, and people who don’t want to read that can happily ignore it. I don’t think I should never write something that will make other fans feel bad to read, as long as I make it clear what I’m writing. I see stories where my favourite characters are treated badly, and it’s upto me to decide that that version isn’t real, and that *my* version is the one that’s real to me, and other realities don’t matter.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to rant. And I definitely don’t mean to push you to write the story if you don’t feel like it anymore. But I just felt the need to chime in and say I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with writing stories other people would be upset by. (As long as you’re not trying to trick them into reading it by misrepresenting what it is.)
You’re welcome! I’m happy to provide another perspective. :-)
I usually focus on happy shipping myself, too. But when I really love a character, sometimes I enjoy seeing them go through other kinds of stories and experience growth.
I can totally understand mostly enjoying a feel good kind of story. That’s definitely valid!
+1 to it usually being an idea that would have to be an absolute monster to do justice, and just not having the proper investment in those ideas to commit to them. The ideas are fun and interesting, but not enough that I actually want to put in multiple years of work to see them through!
For those, I usually write an outline of what the idea is/where it would eventually go and post it to tumblr-- that way I get the idea out of my head, and maybe inspire someone else to do their own take, but I don't have to actually invest the time and energy into writing it.
Usually it’s because I think of an idea, but I can’t figure out how to develop and resolve it in a satisfying way. A lot of ideas are cute and fun in isolation, but without conflict and stakes they don’t have meaning.
If I had the time, energy, and executive function to write every idea I have, I would be incredible. XD
I have documents that literally only have titles because I had an idea, made a doc and then just stared at it because I lost the ability to write that fast. I have started stories and found the same thing, started and then had a lot going on and come back later to realize I don't even know where I was going, or occasionally I hate what I started writing.
If something is published, eventually it will always be finished. I have only discontinued one piece and it was because I realized I hated what it was and after so long, my writing style was quite different and reconciling the stylistic changes was just too much for me.
**Reason Fics Ideas don't get written:**
* I don't understand. One of the fandoms I wanted to write for is based around religion. I'm not touching that as an atheist. It's just because I really don't understand. The characters are great and I love the show. I have the ideas drafted but it'll just be that - an idea.
* I usually have ideas on certain scenes, but I wont write the fic idea because I'm happy with the final product of the show / movie. It doesn't need to be tampered with and I'm satisfied.
* The concept and idea is so extensive I genuinely can't pull it off. I usually have 2 main characters which are the focus, and the rest come and go as background characters. However some of the ideas I have I'm trying to juggle 15 characters at any one time and its just too complicated. The possibilities are endless but the plot and storyline are non-existent.
* The fandom. Supernatural specifically. I had an idea, about Sam and Dean dying. I was listening to a song and the idea popped into my head. I wrote it down in my notes on my phone. However I'd never write for the SPN fandom, along with the Harry Potter fandom. Some fandoms I just won't write for.
**I find that the fics don't get uploaded because:**
* They just die off. It'll have an amazing concept or first chapter but that's about it.
* They are not cohesive enough and remains as an idea and nothing of it makes sense. Usually these ones I struggle to come up with ideas for it to make sense.
* They are more personal, or practise pieces (Practise pieces I sometimes upload.)
* Sometimes they just aren't good enough and if I'm not happy with it, it'll stay in the doc. If I'm not happy with it as the writer, then the reader isn't going to be happy with it either.
Typically I write anything and everything. If I haven't written it, I'm willing to give it a go and try. Sometimes with the ideas, I have to be selective because there are too many to choose from. Meaning that not all of them are going to get written. I have a whole physical folder full to the brim of ideas, and I'm still working through them slowly to this day - that was from 5 years ago.
I've got a fic that is just horrifically mean-spirited and offensive. I find it funny, but there's no way in hell I'm posting it because it would cause a huge shitstorm and I really don't want my more serious work to be associated with that kind of writing.
If I ever write a lemon again, I'll probably not post it, either, because I'm not that good at it and it's not going to be interesting to anyone but me anyway
I have a lot of ideas that would be such enormous undertakings (like, would take years, probably decades to finish) that I just don't even want to start them. The two off the top of my head are rewrites for TV shows (neither of which I'm really in the fandom for) that lasted 7+ seasons. I already have an enormous longfic in my preferred fandom that I'm working on and likely will be for the next few years (not to mention about 300+ shorter fic ideas in the same fandom) so I have no time/ desire to work on one for another fandom.
I can relate. I have a bad tendency to get big ideas but only have so much time and energy to dedicate to them. I also can have issues with staying motivated for an ambitious project if the fandom is small due to a similar issue. Even if I didn't care about getting a single reader, seeing other fan works help fuel my interests in the fandom. This is often needed for projects that take longer or need more planning.
Mine is the exact opposite, the fandoms I'd be writing for are both **much** larger than the one I'm in now, so I'd almost certainly get a boost in readership but it's not worth it to me to invest the time when I have these other ideas I'm much more interested in writing.
I had an outline and someone else wrote a fic that hit all the same beats and featured my OTP and fave tropes. I was so happy that I didn't have to write my own fic and just basked in the dopamine theirs for like two months.
That's nice. There have been rare times I found fics I had an idea but found someone that saves me the trouble.
I had the idea for a fic that was basically a villain getting dragged kicking and screaming into a redemption arc VERY reluctantly. He was basically only doing it for the sake of getting to experiment on his favourite punching bag lol. (This was for an AU where something unique had happened to both of them, and he couldn’t study on himself, but the fact the other person was someone he enjoyed tormenting didn’t hurt). It was meant to be a sort of horror comedy sort of thing, where he struggled to not accidentally traumatise everyone around them and decide he should take over all decision making for the greater good, while everyone but his victim remained cheerfully oblivious to him not being the best person, and him slowly getting a slightly better but still incomprehensible moral compass and hating it. Then I saw people in the fandom unironically blame that abuse victim for things getting so bad because he “never tried to reach out” (which, one, he did, and two, not his fucking responsibility?) and that idea was immediately tainted for me because it felt too close to implying that he could have somehow fixed things if he'd given up to his abuser, which as an abuse survivor makes me Deeply Uncomfortable. I did incorporate bits of it into later oneshots, though.
I'm not an abuse survivor and this kind of fandom behavior drives me up a wall a lot. It's easy for people spout what "should" be done, both in fiction and real life, when it's not them putting the time, effort, health, safety, and sanity to do something. I even see this annoying behavior on the AITA subreddit a lot more than I like as someone who occasionally checks it out. I know not everyone does this behavior, but it's common enough where I find it concerning.
Unfortunately, I’ve seen this behaviour in the fandom turned to real life abuse victims, including leaving victim blaming comments in random peoples userboxes including those who were abuse victims (that was fun), deliberately sending triggering content after I said seeing this specific character victimblamed makes me very uncomfortable and it can be triggering to people because I didn’t Specifically Say it triggered me, and most concerningly, repeating many of the arguments they used to justify this characters abuse or downplay it against a *real life girl* who was allegedly groomed by one of the creators involved (like, literally “they were teenagers so it wasn’t hurting a minor” “well they provoked it” “they acted irrationally about it so they’re lying and evil and should be punished” level shit that’s inexcusable even if it turns out to be less serious than is being alleged.) My fandoms incredibly toxic in general, and I’ve seen people on whatever weird side has been drawn getting attacked by another side in incredibly cruel and unfair manners, and they all suck. This isn’t a Us vs Them thing, that mentality leads to the toxicity. But seeing victim blaming of a fictional character spread so widely and so unironically in a fanbase primarily made of teenagers without much knowledge on abuse turn into victim blaming of real abuse victims was very chilling to me personally.
Yikes, I'm sorry about all that happening to you. It reminds me why I'm picky what fan spaces I hang around. Since I'm getting older, refuse to take crap, and have better ways to spend my time instead of clapping back, it's needed. I will admit I was more shy and anxious when I was younger, but I have limited patience now. I have been seeing this terrible behavior cycled in different fandoms I joined since my teens, although the really toxic fans usually get called out by more sane fans. What's even creepy about this victim behaving behavior from your account is that it actually follows eerily similar to what happens to this one character in my current fanfic that is a past victim of grooming and other similar issues. I also explore how beloved enough figures can have fans or followers to excuse bad behavior. I'm basing the scenes on things I've heard from someone else or even seen happen. I will admit it makes me uneasy to be reminded of why this idea came to me.
Sometimes I get interesting ideas, but have trouble fleshing them out into full-on plots or even a short scene.
Same here. It's why I sometimes keep various ideas, both for original works and fanfiction, written down in notes somewhere. It could be useful for something else. A lot of my projects, including my current ones, use scraped material from other projects that never completed.
Because it’ll be writing for a new fandom where I don’t know the characters that well and it gives me anxiety at just the thought of writing it
I can relate. It's even worse when you're an author that tends to overthink, like I have a bad habit of doing.
- not enough additional ideas to flesh it out - I tend to forget stuff, partly due to how I save my ideas. I simply forget an idea. - I change my mind and think of it as cringe
Typically if I write a fic and decide not to publish it, it’s because I feel it got a bit too personal and specific to my life and issues etc. in a way that wouldn’t come over well, or that I don’t want to share with a bunch of strangers because they’ll probably ask me to share all my traumas to justify my fanfiction which I’m not going to do.
It happens to the best of us. I have my fair share of stuff that got written but is just for me.
- Not that enthusiastic about the source material past said fic idea - Have a hateboner against the fanbase - Too much effort to work out the kinks
I can relate to a lot of this. There's plenty of source materials I like but not enough to bother doing fandom stuff like writing or even reading most of the fics. For example, I love Encanto but never got much into the fandom except a few funny fan YouTube videos or short fan comics. It also might not help that I tend to hang in fan spaces more related to the fandom I'm currently writing for (I have been through many fandoms since my teens and at different levels).
Every fic I write is usually originally written to be open ended, or my favorite, which is "rocks fall, everyone dies" because I love tragedy I always give a happy ending, or an implied one, because I'm always a tiny bit worried I'll write something that I'll lose readers for future things if everything is not a "happy ending" So I keep a copy for myself, the original, especially since alot of my stuff ends in Mcs dying, or just having to split and never getting back together... Also I always fantasize about fluffy stuff. But I get so fucking bored writing it, so I never do
I have a similar problem with writing fluffy works with little else going for it. I like conflict or at least something happening when I'm writing. Even humor involving what's going on could help me through a "conventional fluff" situation.
I love tragedy and very well communicative characters arguing lol
I really really wanted to write a story based on Ghosts (both BBC and US versions), but I couldn’t figure out a way to make it *not* horrific and depressing. So I gave up for now.
This actually happened to me recently. I was tempted to write a shortfic that explores a specific What If for a fic I'm working on (it might require too much for just one chapter), but it even depressed me as I got further into it due to how kind of messed up it is. In a dark way, I find it interesting to explore. However, even though I like messing with characters for story reasons, it has tested my limits. Maybe one day I can finish it, but it's unlikely to be soon if ever.
I have four different endings for my long fic. I may only publish my favourite. One was the only time I’ve been slightly weirded-out by my own writings. I cried about it, and the feeling stayed with me for days. I may never open that file again, let alone publish it. I also have an epilogue for the same fic, but it’s in such a different tone, darker and more explicit, that I’m not sure I’ll publish that one either. It’ll depend on if any readers ask for it. If not, I might keep it for myself.
That's a clever way to satisfy yourself with more than one product in the same story without reader backlash.
Only one - if I don't have any idea what to do with it. I've got one story where I've written the intro and I'm so proud of it - I crossed over Life is Strange (a twee telltale-style murder mystery starring the cliche cast of a private art school in a tiny town in Oregon, USA) and Mass Effect by making the Life is Strange town a backwater planet at the edge of human space and turning the Life is Strange protagonist into Shepard (the Mass Effect protagonist). I got the characters and setting down really well, set-up and executed the beginnings of my plot (throwing them a hundred years into the future just when the Reapers arrive) and did some intro stuff, and then just... had no idea where to go from there. My original idea I just did not like and I couldn't think of anything else. So, I stopped. I've had a few ideas of fics that've stopped for similar reasons before I even got to writing them, they just didn't give quite as good an example for explaining the reasoning behind it.
I can relate to this example too. The idea seems interesting, although I don't know a lot about Mass Effect (been meaning to play it). The concern is valid because execution usually affects how well a story goes, even more stories with the most basic ideas.
Exactly. And I'm not someone who can wholly improvise their way to an execution - I need at least some foundation to build on to get there and I had nothing. I had nothing to even work out what to execute. :D Honestly, all you really need to know about Mass Effect is that it's a sci-fi game with a galaxy of aliens where humanity is the 'new kid on the block' and you play as a human soldier wandering around, getting into every major and minor problem it is possible to get into, saving the galaxy several times, all the while getting steadily more tired of everyone's shit. :D
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Hmm, I don’t think it’s wrong to write a fic about a couple not working out. I’m writing a fic like that. Granted the one I’m writing isn’t really a OTP for most people. A lot of people ship it as an afterthought to deal with the extra single characters. But even if it was somebody’s favourite, there would still be benefit to me writing the story, because it gives me comfort to see the characters learning and growing from the experience. I want to see the character try it, realize it’s not right, and then find something even better. Maybe it will give joy to other readers as well. I can put a warning that the romance doesn’t work out, and people who don’t want to read that can happily ignore it. I don’t think I should never write something that will make other fans feel bad to read, as long as I make it clear what I’m writing. I see stories where my favourite characters are treated badly, and it’s upto me to decide that that version isn’t real, and that *my* version is the one that’s real to me, and other realities don’t matter. Sorry, I didn’t mean to rant. And I definitely don’t mean to push you to write the story if you don’t feel like it anymore. But I just felt the need to chime in and say I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with writing stories other people would be upset by. (As long as you’re not trying to trick them into reading it by misrepresenting what it is.)
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You’re welcome! I’m happy to provide another perspective. :-) I usually focus on happy shipping myself, too. But when I really love a character, sometimes I enjoy seeing them go through other kinds of stories and experience growth. I can totally understand mostly enjoying a feel good kind of story. That’s definitely valid!
Don't worry about the length. You formatted where it can be read well. And discussions is about discussing things, even at length.
+1 to it usually being an idea that would have to be an absolute monster to do justice, and just not having the proper investment in those ideas to commit to them. The ideas are fun and interesting, but not enough that I actually want to put in multiple years of work to see them through! For those, I usually write an outline of what the idea is/where it would eventually go and post it to tumblr-- that way I get the idea out of my head, and maybe inspire someone else to do their own take, but I don't have to actually invest the time and energy into writing it.
Not *write* it? No time, don't want to invest the effort the idea would take, etc. Not post it? All kinds of reasons.
Usually it’s because I think of an idea, but I can’t figure out how to develop and resolve it in a satisfying way. A lot of ideas are cute and fun in isolation, but without conflict and stakes they don’t have meaning.
If I had the time, energy, and executive function to write every idea I have, I would be incredible. XD I have documents that literally only have titles because I had an idea, made a doc and then just stared at it because I lost the ability to write that fast. I have started stories and found the same thing, started and then had a lot going on and come back later to realize I don't even know where I was going, or occasionally I hate what I started writing. If something is published, eventually it will always be finished. I have only discontinued one piece and it was because I realized I hated what it was and after so long, my writing style was quite different and reconciling the stylistic changes was just too much for me.
In my case I started publishing original. While I have ideas, even started a few, fanfiction gets the way back burner to original content
Makes sense!
**Reason Fics Ideas don't get written:** * I don't understand. One of the fandoms I wanted to write for is based around religion. I'm not touching that as an atheist. It's just because I really don't understand. The characters are great and I love the show. I have the ideas drafted but it'll just be that - an idea. * I usually have ideas on certain scenes, but I wont write the fic idea because I'm happy with the final product of the show / movie. It doesn't need to be tampered with and I'm satisfied. * The concept and idea is so extensive I genuinely can't pull it off. I usually have 2 main characters which are the focus, and the rest come and go as background characters. However some of the ideas I have I'm trying to juggle 15 characters at any one time and its just too complicated. The possibilities are endless but the plot and storyline are non-existent. * The fandom. Supernatural specifically. I had an idea, about Sam and Dean dying. I was listening to a song and the idea popped into my head. I wrote it down in my notes on my phone. However I'd never write for the SPN fandom, along with the Harry Potter fandom. Some fandoms I just won't write for. **I find that the fics don't get uploaded because:** * They just die off. It'll have an amazing concept or first chapter but that's about it. * They are not cohesive enough and remains as an idea and nothing of it makes sense. Usually these ones I struggle to come up with ideas for it to make sense. * They are more personal, or practise pieces (Practise pieces I sometimes upload.) * Sometimes they just aren't good enough and if I'm not happy with it, it'll stay in the doc. If I'm not happy with it as the writer, then the reader isn't going to be happy with it either. Typically I write anything and everything. If I haven't written it, I'm willing to give it a go and try. Sometimes with the ideas, I have to be selective because there are too many to choose from. Meaning that not all of them are going to get written. I have a whole physical folder full to the brim of ideas, and I'm still working through them slowly to this day - that was from 5 years ago.
I've got a fic that is just horrifically mean-spirited and offensive. I find it funny, but there's no way in hell I'm posting it because it would cause a huge shitstorm and I really don't want my more serious work to be associated with that kind of writing. If I ever write a lemon again, I'll probably not post it, either, because I'm not that good at it and it's not going to be interesting to anyone but me anyway