If writing a whole story might be a little much, perhaps looking into some roleplaying might help! I find for OCs that I don't have a full fleshed out story for, finding that one rp partner that clicks has made my creative juices flow. There's something about anticipating just what is going to happen with the story and character reaction that keeps me doing it for so long haha;
You could also try some more casual drawing scenarios, little art challenges. Make playlists for them, moodboards! Or play around with them in the Art/Forum games threads!
I want to do something with my OCs, like writing a story or making a webcomic or something like that. But I have a really bad attention span that only seems to be getting worse over time, so writing stories or making a webcomic is probably not something that I'll be able to do. So.... what other things/projects can be done that involve OCs? Because I have no clue what to do with them aside from drawing them over and over again.
Series of short stories/one-shots? Like, an anthology that you can add to whenever you want, but that doesn't rely on the continuation of a single plot, so you can drop and pick it back up whenever you want. (And they can be medium-neutral, I imagine this works just as well with writing as it does with comics or even short roleplays)
CharaRen I'd love to RP my OCs, but I'm having trouble finding a good place to RP them. This is mainly because the OCs I have the best connection with are for a fandom that barely anyone knows (Aether Eternius). I know maybe a handful of other people in this fandom, but I'm too shy(/anxious?) to ask them if they have interest in RPing... I've also tried making AU versions of the OCs so they would fit in other RP settings as well but I usually don't connect well with those AUs.
Swably I've tried doing something like that but so far I can't even finish one oneshot because of my bad attention span and bad memory (I tend to forget I started writing a story the day after I started it, oops)
(thank you both for your advice, though)
I write a load of bulletpoint headcanons and I've been doing more with my OC's for it since I started using the system when I was working out of the country over Christmas. I struggle with writing stories so I've found it much quicker and in many ways more enjoyable to write ideas of scenes and character interactions/development in a headcanon like format rather than trying to sit down and write a proper story. You don't need a overrunning plot but it does help to have at least a vague idea if you're going in a kind of story order or are looking to build a story out of it.
It's a fast way to write a scene in one sitting and it stops me worrying about things like flow, phrasing or getting distracted and loosing my place in the piece I was writing so I actually get shit done. If my attention span is that bad on that given day but I want to get an idea down I can resort to using text slang and abbreviated words because it's supposed to be a rough idea of a scene. I can then use these headcanons as a plan for longer pieces for the rare few times I do have the patience to sit down and write. When I'm handwriting backups copies they're never more than two-thirds of a page of A4. The longest 2 headcanons do go over a page and a half of A4 paper but they really should of been converted to story format at that point, I just didn't have the patience or attention span to sit down and actually write it out properly.
I keep paper backups of these in a ring binder and I've found I like keeping them in a loose order of where the scene appears in the story's timeline. Now I'm making good headway with making these paper backups I'm finding every so often I flick through them and see where plot holes are or any parts of a plot I haven't explored and write out a headcanon or two around that.
brainstorm backstories, world they're in (nothing big just bullet points), fill out infographs or take tests with them (I took a personality test for one of mine), parody/joke comics and art are my favorite cause I think more authors should do them to make something light hearted as well as build your character's personality... meme your character