You can write more and do it better in 2,500 words than most people who write those 40k stories, so I wouldn't worry about it too much. You're exceptionally talented and in all honesty, yes, I would pay to read a 40k epic written by you because I trust your writing and I love long stories--it'd be like an early Xmas gift for me. That said, your short fics are always satisfying and interesting to read, which is not something I can say for most writers that do short pieces. It's also a reason I hate drabbles. They usually don't say anything in those wee pieces, but you speak volumes with yours. It's a mark of a good writer in my opinion.
I can also say that the idea of writing 40k is the most daunting part; actually doing it is not so hard once you make up your mind to give it a go. Then... yanno... 77k later you're going, "How did that happen?" It's--for me--about pacing yourself with the long pieces. If you can write 2k (just an example) a day, eventually that adds up and it happens quicker than you'd think. Hell, even doing 50 or 600 words a day will eventually add up and the next thing you know, you've got a novel length fic on your hands. I floored myself with the first one I wrote and it's my favorite story still because I did that, if that makes any sense. I don't do BBs or anything because I flitter around, too and I couldn't meet the deadlines on time, so there I'd be, all put out and calling myself a failure, etc. My overachieving secret identity couldn't deal with it. *sigh*
I wrote with someone for years as well as doing my own independent projects and she hers and it's true: you have to be a good fit. But sometimes the little arguments that pop up can turn into good discussions that help you both move along. Of course, I think I may've just defined "collaboration" in my own way. Right.
And there's my 2 & 3/4 cents on the topic. Hope you feel better and don't let that stuff get you down, your writing is awesome just the way it is. *g*
I didn't mean to whinge, and I wasn't fishing for compliments, I was just having One Of Those Days, but it's lovely to read the nice things people have said (although I'm fighting hard to accept the compliments gracefully and ignore my very British inclination to be embarrassed by them!).
I'm not sure whether I'm more frustrated by the fact that I feel I don't have the *time* to get the focus to write a long story (one day I'll go away for a weekend all alone and just *write*), or if it's that I'm very aware that almost every single piece I write, however short, is actually part of a much longer story in my head - it's so often as though I'm writing scenes from the longer piece. Which is probably why I end up writing series of things - they start out as a scene and then grow, because there was more in my head all along.
I couldn't do challenges or BBs either, because I have to write what I need to write at any given time. Which is why I have so many WIPs (I'm still chipping away at the mpreg stories, which will surface one day, probably when I've finished with hookers...).
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I can also say that the idea of writing 40k is the most daunting part; actually doing it is not so hard once you make up your mind to give it a go. Then... yanno... 77k later you're going, "How did that happen?" It's--for me--about pacing yourself with the long pieces. If you can write 2k (just an example) a day, eventually that adds up and it happens quicker than you'd think. Hell, even doing 50 or 600 words a day will eventually add up and the next thing you know, you've got a novel length fic on your hands. I floored myself with the first one I wrote and it's my favorite story still because I did that, if that makes any sense. I don't do BBs or anything because I flitter around, too and I couldn't meet the deadlines on time, so there I'd be, all put out and calling myself a failure, etc. My overachieving secret identity couldn't deal with it. *sigh*
I wrote with someone for years as well as doing my own independent projects and she hers and it's true: you have to be a good fit. But sometimes the little arguments that pop up can turn into good discussions that help you both move along. Of course, I think I may've just defined "collaboration" in my own way. Right.
And there's my 2 & 3/4 cents on the topic. Hope you feel better and don't let that stuff get you down, your writing is awesome just the way it is. *g*
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I didn't mean to whinge, and I wasn't fishing for compliments, I was just having One Of Those Days, but it's lovely to read the nice things people have said (although I'm fighting hard to accept the compliments gracefully and ignore my very British inclination to be embarrassed by them!).
I'm not sure whether I'm more frustrated by the fact that I feel I don't have the *time* to get the focus to write a long story (one day I'll go away for a weekend all alone and just *write*), or if it's that I'm very aware that almost every single piece I write, however short, is actually part of a much longer story in my head - it's so often as though I'm writing scenes from the longer piece. Which is probably why I end up writing series of things - they start out as a scene and then grow, because there was more in my head all along.
I couldn't do challenges or BBs either, because I have to write what I need to write at any given time. Which is why I have so many WIPs (I'm still chipping away at the mpreg stories, which will surface one day, probably when I've finished with hookers...).