User blog:SableSkies/Little by Little

The hard part about inspiration is that it comes and goes without warning. One second. your pumping out ideas faster than you can pound the keyboard, and then you're just sitting there, unmoving. As the days go on, the ideas come less and less because, for now, I need to focus on the story. I have a bad habit of creating characters before I've even fleshed out what the story will be about (I wonder if authors do that too?). I have a frame for how the story will go, and a general idea of the rising action, climax, and ending (I'm so excited about it!). I just need to get the discipline on actually writing the story parts.

I spend a lot of my time reading other peoples' OCs and Teams; sometimes, there's just people ripping off well-known anime characters and stereotypes, and then you come across an absolutely amazing team that just blows you away with creativity and depth. It's a strange rollercoaster. What really upsets me though are the number of near-blank pages that haven't been touched in over a year. It's like people just want to trademark or take control of a Team name and never touch it, which is hard because newer members aren't able to use those names without some kind of extension that makes them feel even more out of touch. If one of my team names were taken and only had "WIP" text and said (for example) "Team PVRL is a team at Beacon Academy" and nothing else, I would be so angry. (Okay, maybe PVRL isn't the most common name, but just replace that with something more common). That means someone wouldn't be able to actually contribute their idea and have to create a page like "Team PVRL (SableSkies)", which wouldn't get enough spotlight. I guess it's the principle of first-come-first-serve, but I'm really hoping some sort of page-clean up for near empty pages that haven't been touched in 12 months happens. Newcomers get turned off by seeing their concept names taken with very little to show for it.