In which I'm typing whatever comes into my head
Having awful writer's block. miss_next made a joking suggestion on Twitter that I write an LJ entry. I see what you did there.
At saku's suggestion, I'm participating in aa_replay, though I've fallen a bit behind. I haven't played the original Phoenix Wright trilogy since I first got them in 2007, and haven't played Apollo Justice since it came out in 2008, so it's kind of fun to go back and see how much I remember and proceed to get stuck in all the same places. I'm in the middle of case 1-2 now, and I'm finding myself liking Maya as a character a lot more than I did the first time. I guess I found her cloying and gimmicky before, but she seems much more endearing to me now. Granted, she's no Ema or Trucy but...
padraiceen's brother has been playing through Persona 4, and it physically pains me every time I have to watch him slog through a dungeon. Half the time I basically end up livetweeting his horrible failures, which have included letting Mitsuo's shadow kill him with the Evil Smile/Ghastly Wail combo TWICE, refusing to let his party members use anything but physical skills and basic attacks while grinding because he doesn't want to pay for the fox, and overwriting Yosuke's Tentarafoo with Wind Break "because I never use Tentarafoo." I just want to throw a tantrum and start screaming that he should give me the controller because he is PLAYING IT WRONG. That said he's in September now and I'm excited about him (maybe, someday, somehow) getting to the plot twists. You know, all nine babillion of them.
Back to the writing thing, I have been doing a little bit of writing but I haven't really worked on my big fic project in about three weeks. My mindset at this point is "just get it done so you don't have to worry about it anymore," but that's an awful mindset to have when you're trying to write something halfway decent. I don't know how I would handle criticism of it because it's still in that stage where it feels uncomfortably close to me, so having someone beta read it and make suggestions is right out. I could just keep trying to write shorter fics to keep the creativity flowing while the longfic gestates, but that's not fixing the problem. I don't want to continue being avoidant.
(Did I mention there's a second fic that I've been working on for even longer and still haven't finished? And let's not even mention the P4 culture festival fic that I started in like February 2009 dear god.)
At saku's suggestion, I'm participating in aa_replay, though I've fallen a bit behind. I haven't played the original Phoenix Wright trilogy since I first got them in 2007, and haven't played Apollo Justice since it came out in 2008, so it's kind of fun to go back and see how much I remember and proceed to get stuck in all the same places. I'm in the middle of case 1-2 now, and I'm finding myself liking Maya as a character a lot more than I did the first time. I guess I found her cloying and gimmicky before, but she seems much more endearing to me now. Granted, she's no Ema or Trucy but...
padraiceen's brother has been playing through Persona 4, and it physically pains me every time I have to watch him slog through a dungeon. Half the time I basically end up livetweeting his horrible failures, which have included letting Mitsuo's shadow kill him with the Evil Smile/Ghastly Wail combo TWICE, refusing to let his party members use anything but physical skills and basic attacks while grinding because he doesn't want to pay for the fox, and overwriting Yosuke's Tentarafoo with Wind Break "because I never use Tentarafoo." I just want to throw a tantrum and start screaming that he should give me the controller because he is PLAYING IT WRONG. That said he's in September now and I'm excited about him (maybe, someday, somehow) getting to the plot twists. You know, all nine babillion of them.
Back to the writing thing, I have been doing a little bit of writing but I haven't really worked on my big fic project in about three weeks. My mindset at this point is "just get it done so you don't have to worry about it anymore," but that's an awful mindset to have when you're trying to write something halfway decent. I don't know how I would handle criticism of it because it's still in that stage where it feels uncomfortably close to me, so having someone beta read it and make suggestions is right out. I could just keep trying to write shorter fics to keep the creativity flowing while the longfic gestates, but that's not fixing the problem. I don't want to continue being avoidant.
(Did I mention there's a second fic that I've been working on for even longer and still haven't finished? And let's not even mention the P4 culture festival fic that I started in like February 2009 dear god.)