Had to drop a Big Bang again... le sigh...

[hiddencait]

So I had to drop out of hobbitstory story again (Sorry about that grav_ity - but I may just start posting individual chapters or something?) There was just no way in hell I could get a full story out by the end of the month. Not with the various original fic deadlines I had coming up for anthologies and such.

It's kinda a double edge sword right now: I'm so freaking thrilled that professional writing stuff is happening now, and there are some amazing projects I'm getting to be invovled with. But I'm really missing fanfic. I keep entering fic exchanges so I at least write some small stuff to help calm the urge to fic, but it's really not helping my longer fic wants.

Oh well - them's the breaks, I guess. Anyone maybe have hints for juggling the two? I don't want to end up feeling like I am missing out on fic entirely - it's sorta taking the place of original fic as my "hobby" so I have something writerly that I don't have to stress about perfection quite as much. 

Comments

[scribblemyname]

No suggestions unless you write a lot of little fic quickly. It makes it easier to balance the two worlds for me, but even so, I skew heavily one or the other for months.

[kristen-mara.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the balancing act! I know a professional author who said that she reserved one day a week to write about whatever she wanted and the other days were for her 'bread and butter'. But what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another - I need to get my balancing act sorted out too, as I love doing fics but want to get some other writing done too.