Yes, I've seen the summerofcm ficathon challenge. I'm debating whether or not I want to sign up. I'm sure by then I'd appreciate writing something else, as much fun as OI&E, but I'm dismal with deadlines, and if I get an assignment my muse isn't happy with, I won't be able to hold up my end of the bargain.
The thing is, I already did what I set out to accomplish. That was to write Knowledge and Innocence. The rest just bashed me over the head.
No, seriously. I mean it.
I'm not really 'collecting ideas', as you put it. I'm really asking for anything that might trip my muses' on button - I have an idea for the Reid-and-Emily-talk suggestion, that is probably about as far from what was asked for as I could imagine.
I have another Mom!Hotch idea from the comments for Unlocking the World that doesn't involve the team, really.
They're my ideas, they're just inspired by other people's comments. And since this wasn't supposed to be a series, well, I didn't really *have* a timeline, and those ideas are helping me fill in some rather huge gaps in it.
One other thing I have to take into account: From my experiences with writing OI&E, it's much easier to get my muse to cooperate if it has a fairly wide selection of plot ideas to choose from. So if I don't add new ones for a while, and I'm down to a handful of unwritten stories, when I sit down to write, it's a lot harder to pick up one of the remaining few and run with it. I don't seem to have that problem if I have ten or fifteen stories to run with.
I actually try not to work on more than one story at a time. Otherwise I end up confusing characterization, details, etc., or I lose interest in one or the other or both.
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Date: 2007-06-29 02:06 am (UTC)Yes, I've seen the summerofcm ficathon challenge. I'm debating whether or not I want to sign up. I'm sure by then I'd appreciate writing something else, as much fun as OI&E, but I'm dismal with deadlines, and if I get an assignment my muse isn't happy with, I won't be able to hold up my end of the bargain.
The thing is, I already did what I set out to accomplish. That was to write Knowledge and Innocence. The rest just bashed me over the head.
No, seriously. I mean it.
I'm not really 'collecting ideas', as you put it. I'm really asking for anything that might trip my muses' on button - I have an idea for the Reid-and-Emily-talk suggestion, that is probably about as far from what was asked for as I could imagine.
I have another Mom!Hotch idea from the comments for Unlocking the World that doesn't involve the team, really.
They're my ideas, they're just inspired by other people's comments. And since this wasn't supposed to be a series, well, I didn't really *have* a timeline, and those ideas are helping me fill in some rather huge gaps in it.
One other thing I have to take into account: From my experiences with writing OI&E, it's much easier to get my muse to cooperate if it has a fairly wide selection of plot ideas to choose from. So if I don't add new ones for a while, and I'm down to a handful of unwritten stories, when I sit down to write, it's a lot harder to pick up one of the remaining few and run with it. I don't seem to have that problem if I have ten or fifteen stories to run with.
I actually try not to work on more than one story at a time. Otherwise I end up confusing characterization, details, etc., or I lose interest in one or the other or both.
Yay for easy on the eyes.