Waiting time

[pensnest]

*twitches*

I hate that time between writing a story and posting it. I've just completed my cockbertbigbang story, and I can't post it until… well, I'm not sure when I'll get to post it, but not until after Camp Sparkle. *twitches* It seems to mean I can't get onto the next story—not that I have a 'next story' necessarily lined up in my head, but still. It probably explains my ability to hit deadlines but not to get things done early—get it done early and I just have to wait longer...

Anybody else find that? Do you want the story posted and read by other people, or don't you mind that much?

Comments

[sperrywink]

I definitely feel that way. And if the time between finishing and posting is too long and I start something else, the unposted story feels "old" to me and I have less excitement when it is posted. I'm like, "I wrote that 3 months ago!"

I forgot to say- YAY FOR COMPLETING YOUR STORY!!!!

[pensnest]

Even the usually rather brief delay between finishing m MTYG story and seeing it actually posted makes me itch! I was very dismayed with the first Big Bang story I did... I'm glad I'm not the only one!

[turps]

Congrats on finishing your story!

When I wrote for the rpf big bang a few years back my story was finished months in advance. It drove me crazy having to wait for the posting date. So yeah, I get it.

[pensnest]

Months in advance would make me crazy! I don't think it'll be that much of a delay, as this particularly community is for people writing Adam Lambert with someone who is not either of the main partners (Kris and Tommy), so there's a limited market. Still, frustrating.

[adelate]

When I finish something I want it posted as soon as humanly possible. Then when I post a story I sit with the tab open all night and check every now and then to see if people seem to be reading it, ahahaha. I HAVE INSECURITIES, OKAY? The one time I did a big bang I was lucky in that I actually got to go first, but even so the wait was awful.

[pensnest]

I tend to keep twitching until someone comments, because I need the validation! But I don't like having an unposted story.

[zebraljb.livejournal.com]

I'm the same way. That's why I can't just write chapters and chapters w/o posting it, even if it's not done. I have horrible patience. :)

[pensnest]

I want my stories finished before I post, but posting is *necessary*!

[nopseud]

I can sit on stories for weeks before I post them. Months. Years, very occasionally. I don't want to post them until I feel they're exactly the right shape, and there's nothing more that can be done to improve them. And even then, I'll sometimes wait until I get some outside reason to post, like someone's birthday or someone declaring a story posting month, something like that.

This is why I don't take part in a lot of challenges. I hate posting stories that I know could be better with more time.

[pensnest]

It always amazes me that you can do that—I suppose my motivation is completely different. I tend to need deadlines in order to make me go to the trouble of writing a story down, the trouble of making sure it is a story, not just a meandering fantasy. And I probably haven't finished either the Wallow or the Chronicles because there is no deadline on either one. :-(

[jacie3.livejournal.com]

I usually want to post things as soon as they're written, but I generally make myself give it a day or two to settle, then do another read-through-edit session. On long stories, I can post chapter by chapter as they're written. Which is odd because I usually don't want to read a story unless it is fully posted. I just don't want to WAIT to find out what happens next (or take the risk it never gets finished). And yes, I too post and await some FB, hoping someone reads it, and likes it! :)

[pensnest]

I don't post chapter by chapter, because I know I'm going to want to change things when I get to the end of the story. Well, except the Chronicles, which don't exactly count. It is a good idea to hold off, give it a day or so to settle - if I had a *lot* more self-discipline it'd be a good thing to let one story lie until I was well into the next one, and therefore not so enamoured of the just-written one, *then* check it through again, then post it!