What Ideas You Had to Cancel On?

[RepresentingWrath]

Same as envy.

 

[ShrimpShady]

My graveyard of discarded story ideas looks like the hill of swords from Berserk.

But I cope by believing I'll eventually reincorporate them into newer projects

 

[Iassus-Rudera]

We're all human, no matter how many dragon, phoenix and cat girl characters we write. We will get distracted, we change from day to day and ultimately, writing is a way to express yourself. A story's core idea is a core tenet of your personality. If that core tenet changes, is influenced or disappears somewhere along the way? Or even worse you notice it wasn't actually a core tenet at all and you're deluding yourself? Well, then the story that came from it goes poof along with any motivation to write it.

I had an especially hard time back when I used to write Grim stories. I saw the world as a greyscale, emotionless place. People were numbers, facts were data, I was a machine. So my writing reflected that. No emotion, no growth, no change, no colour. Then a few years later I went through a massive change and suddenly the world had colour again. Yet my stories looked so... dull. So 150,000 words down the drain as I re-wrote the whole thing from scratch with an entirely new perspective.

It's transformative if you do it right but distracting if you do it wrong. At least, that's my view.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Between writer's block and childbirth, which was more painful?

Getting kicked and punched by a toddler who grows stronger every day. His latest obsession is spraying people with the garden hose. At least he's stopped watering the inside of the house . . . with the hose. These days, he'll fling water out of the bathtub with a washcloth and slip and slide around the floor until he's physically restrained. He's also now strong enough to climb onto the kitchen counter without any chairs, stools, etc. There, he unscrews lids and dumps oil on the floor while his mom is still cleaning up the cow milk he spilled all over the inside of the fridge.

It's not so much about writer's block as it is drifting off to sleep too exhausted to move while your ideas scream and die a slow, painful death.

 

[Valmond]

My graveyard of discarded story ideas looks like the hill of swords from Berserk.

But I cope by believing I'll eventually reincorporate them into newer projects

Or maybe they’ll reincarnate and hunt you down for abandoning them.

 

[ACertainPassingUser]

*Checking 50 backlogs of ideas either scrapped or put on hiatus*

*100 more on other app*

*10 other ideas still being developed and cancelled due to lack of information or lack of understanding of the settings of some fanfic ideas being worked on.*

*2 ready to be published but still working on understanding the world and plotline*

Uhh....I'm still planning on writing one. But I'm not too sure if I made any mistakes.

Create a personal Tier List out of those old ideas,

And then rank them based on which one is interesting and useful to the current you which has grown so much and become entirely different and better person after the idea has been shelved.

Tiering them is one of the best way to organize them. So you won't miss the good ones and not accidentally keeping too much of the bad ones.

Use them as one-time-use side characters if they're that bad. Low quality MC are just NPC after all.

 

[hidayo]

At some point in the past, my discarded ideas actually outnumbered the stories I had written.

 

[MasterY001]

Getting kicked and punched by a toddler who grows stronger every day. His latest obsession is spraying people with the garden hose. At least he's stopped watering the inside of the house . . . with the hose. These days, he'll fling water out of the bathtub with a washcloth and slip and slide around the floor until he's physically restrained. He's also now strong enough to climb onto the kitchen counter without any chairs, stools, etc. There, he unscrews lids and dumps oil on the floor while his mom is still cleaning up the cow milk he spilled all over the inside of the fridge.

It's not so much about writer's block as it is drifting off to sleep too exhausted to move while your ideas scream and die a slow, painful death.

Before you know it, that toddler is a foot taller than you and doing Crossfit twice a day. Good luck busting out the belt when your kid twice your size

 

[Elmir_Arch-Ham_of_Omega]

Hamsters joining the party.
I already have...

1. Gun-toting military-trained dog-sized mice
2. A rabbit wizard
3. Big messenger pigeons with the attitude of a seagull i.e. don't mess with them.
4. A walking pumpkin that's a walking bio-weapon
5. Flying air-breathing demon arapaima
6. Flying Drones with cameras

No idea what the hamsters will do

 

[yeul_e]

Since I made an outline before writing, I have only a few cancelled ideas, particularly on parts my said it is shammy.