I try to keep my characters busy and helpful in the story XD
I have a hard time writing oneshota in general lol! I was amazed I issued out as many as I did before I started on this story. The outline thing for me forces me to finish the story... If I get distracted by real life or Photoshop, then I know where I left off and need to go. Must stay focused.
I completely underratand what you mean about planning how they're going to get there. Setting up battle strategy is such a pain right now. I know what needs to happen, but I have to gather the troops, make one or two speeches, explain the terrain, get them to their actual battle... Before they actually can fight. And for some of them, background history needs to be dropped at certain points. Ahhhh!!!!
I get knocked out almost instantly if I imagine deep conversation in my head XD Must be too much for my poor exhausted brain to comprehend.
Hooray for prep hours! And today, I subbed for a HS social studies teacher that just assigned book questions and the kids were well-behaved so I just wrote through those too! Most of the time though, I do have to teach the simple things they leave or go all out with math (strongest subject so I can help the kids). I did 1st-4th last Friday (teachers were rotating for meetings) so that was interstingly fun. And on Wed, I got super lucky and filled in for my old MS band director and got to teach a HS band and the 5th grade trombones :) The MS rehearsals were covered by the other directors because they didnt know it was me who got the last minute sub job XD
Writing on paper is sloooow but it gives me something to do at school lol.
Niou is a rebel. He takes forever to join lol. Marui and Jackal and Kirihara kind of get forced in around the same time lol.
3rd to see what was up and it was the most recent out. The 4th, 1st, and 2nd. I looked to see who died in the 5th before finding a chapter with a lot of Snape and read forward from there. And then went backwards a chapter at a time from where I orginlnallh started. That was really confusing lol! I more or less did that with the sixth, but I forced myself to read the 7th properly.
Most of the time, if I am unsure about a series, I will pick one around the middle and read it before starting from the first volume. And if something suspenseful major happens that has something to do with one of my favs, I will spoil myself and check.
PoT is the other one that I watched/read very out of order - favorite player matches first haha. Because I am conscientious about time. I also like the challenge of attempting to logically sequence things. I am crazy lol.
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Date: 2011-10-07 06:41 pm (UTC)I have a hard time writing oneshota in general lol! I was amazed I issued out as many as I did before I started on this story. The outline thing for me forces me to finish the story... If I get distracted by real life or Photoshop, then I know where I left off and need to go. Must stay focused.
I completely underratand what you mean about planning how they're going to get there. Setting up battle strategy is such a pain right now. I know what needs to happen, but I have to gather the troops, make one or two speeches, explain the terrain, get them to their actual battle... Before they actually can fight. And for some of them, background history needs to be dropped at certain points. Ahhhh!!!!
I get knocked out almost instantly if I imagine deep conversation in my head XD Must be too much for my poor exhausted brain to comprehend.
Hooray for prep hours! And today, I subbed for a HS social studies teacher that just assigned book questions and the kids were well-behaved so I just wrote through those too! Most of the time though, I do have to teach the simple things they leave or go all out with math (strongest subject so I can help the kids). I did 1st-4th last Friday (teachers were rotating for meetings) so that was interstingly fun. And on Wed, I got super lucky and filled in for my old MS band director and got to teach a HS band and the 5th grade trombones :) The MS rehearsals were covered by the other directors because they didnt know it was me who got the last minute sub job XD
Writing on paper is sloooow but it gives me something to do at school lol.
Niou is a rebel. He takes forever to join lol. Marui and Jackal and Kirihara kind of get forced in around the same time lol.
3rd to see what was up and it was the most recent out. The 4th, 1st, and 2nd. I looked to see who died in the 5th before finding a chapter with a lot of Snape and read forward from there. And then went backwards a chapter at a time from where I orginlnallh started. That was really confusing lol! I more or less did that with the sixth, but I forced myself to read the 7th properly.
Most of the time, if I am unsure about a series, I will pick one around the middle and read it before starting from the first volume. And if something suspenseful major happens that has something to do with one of my favs, I will spoil myself and check.
PoT is the other one that I watched/read very out of order - favorite player matches first haha. Because I am conscientious about time. I also like the challenge of attempting to logically sequence things. I am crazy lol.