I Must Motivate Myself to Write
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I decided to make a content block for my blog with links to my library and sub-libraries (it’s on the left under the Asterisk Guide if you’re curious), and it got me thinking about how I haven’t been writing so much lately. I have been making slow progress on Divine Strength and The Kaita Legacy, and I’ve thought of plenty of ideas, and I guess there was that no context crossover, but the last time I actually posted a work here on BZP was…let’s see…September?
I want to try to get myself posting stories here more frequently again. My first thought was going through my FFFC entries and rewriting them all a week or two at a time, or maybe writing new stories inspired by either the prompt for each of those stories or what each of those stories ended up as. Or maybe I could do a weekly blog entry advertising the new story (which I’ll probably do anyway) and also asking for any suggestions people might have for next week? I could also try tackling that list of ideas I have—I mean, several of them are non-Bionicle, but we have the OTC Forum; and a lot of them are ideas for larger stories, but I could either play with them in short story format or try to commit to writing a chapter a week.
Of course, I should probably use this desire instead for writing Divine Strength. 
Also I’m not sure I really can keep a weekly schedule, especially with taking an actual Fiction Writing class again this semester (and I might post those stories in OTC, I’ll have to think about it). Biweekly like the FFFC would probably be easier, but I still don’t know, and there’s always the possibility of doing this monthly but I feel like that’s not exactly frequent. But, I don’t know, maybe this is an area where I really should try pushing myself…
I guess part of the dilemma is that, while there’s still a lot of Bionicle fanfiction I want to write, I also want to try writing stuff that’s not Bionicle, and I want to post it here but I’m not sure OTC is a very busy place. I feel like this is obnoxious, but I want to gauge my chances of getting feedback on any of this stuff. I’ll post my current list of ideas (in spoilers because there are…a few), if anyone has any comments on these ideas or any of the possible methods mentioned above, I’d appreciate it.
Bionicle ideas:
-The Kaita Legacy, expanding the idea of The Blade of Valor into a full epic (I’m working on Chapter 4; like I said, I want to complete it and edit it before posting it as an epic, but I am posting the rough drafts on Tumblr)
-Chronicle of Heresy, the ultimate goal of those Heretic Stories (or maybe just more smaller, self-contained Heretic Stories)
-Vhisola training to be a Dark Hunter on Spherus Magna (haha there’s some funny background to this but I’ll save that for later)
-A story with some of the Toa Mangai, purely out of spite from this whole canonization debate (I am a jerk okay)
-There’s a part of me that feels like I should attempt a comedy (even if it’s just a one-shot) but I really struggle with comedies so eh we’ll see (though maybe this would be a good place to funnel my frustration at people refusing to accept that G2 is a reboot…)
-Also I kind of want to write some G2 fanfiction but I feel like I should try to wait a little longer before starting that, still I want to keep it on the table though
Non-Bionicle ideas:
-Legend of Korra Book 2 AU, where Wan killed Vaatu rather than sealing him and now he’s respawning inside of Korra and she starts having short bursts of evilness
-Mega Man Star Force AU with Sonia as the protagonist, because imagining Harp Note with the Star Force is a lot of fun
-Mega Man Star Force X Sailor Moon crossover, because I feel like it would just work (though I really need to get farther in Sailor Moon before I can do this well)
-More miscellaneous crossovers with no context, like the crossover with Varrick and Kyouma (probably the easiest set-up for a frequent schedule, I’ve been kicking this around for a while and there are about 17 or so series I feel like I have an appropriate knowledge of to try this with, though I guess I could take suggestions of stuff I know next to nothing about just to try it out and see what happens) (also it should be noted that Bionicle (and other constraction lines) are included in that count)
-And, well...Divine Strength, my attempt to write a novel (excerpts are being posted on Tumblr but I might try posting more here, and/or I could try writing short stories using the characters/world to try fleshing them out a little)
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