writing update!!!

[taylorgibbs]

Hi all!

I wanted to do a state of the author sort of an email, so that you know where things stand.

I’m so sorry for things being very quiet on the writing front. I went from writing 50-100,000 words a month in January to not even 100 words for some months since. I am gradually getting back in the writing bandwagon. There were many factors that blocked my writing and some of those have been banished. Some of those still loom, and one in particular is crushing my creativity, sad to say.

Anyway…this is my writing plan. I wanted to get this out there so that there aren’t questions or confusion about what I might be writing when.

I have a NCIS ficathon fic to finish, and in the very short term I may be trying to produce some short one-shots. This keeps the muse happy and the writing flowing.

I plan to finish Captain Oblivious and Man Makes the Clothes before working on any of my multi-chapter WIPs. Given my concentration at the moment, I need to whittle down my WIPs.

I will be continuing to post completed stories with starshines, as these are lingering in our completed folder.

Now, as for writing, I have a great deal of commissioned stories that I must get completed. Many of these are in the 20K+ range, not an issue when I was writing so much, but a rather large issue when I’m not writing much at all. Some of these are stories that are right up my creative alley and others are a stretch. Some folks offered me complete freedom except for a prompt, and others have sent several thousand words of instructions and scene by scene breakdowns. I discovered that I’m not able to write to that specific a specification, and this is probably the largest factor of my creative black hole.

Since many of these stories are in excess of 20,000 words, about 100 paperback book pages, my plan, creatively speaking, is to work on my multi-chapter stories while crafting these stories. The shorter commissioned pieces will go to the top of the queue, while the longer ones will be worked on in the order in which the commission was received.

This means hildejohanne (Hurt) is at the top of the longer commissioned story queue. Regarding the shorter stories, I should have something for murgy31 and djmicheals in the next couple of weeks.

Thanks for understanding, and thanks for reading, replying, and supporting :) Your positive emails have made a difference!

TG

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[taylorgibbs.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!