Conby muse iz ded. d. e. d. ded

[casy_dee]

Well folks, I think my Conby muse has played out. I still enjoy reading the stories a great deal, but I think I'm done writing them. At least for a bit. My last fic did horribly, and I don't quite know why. Maybe people just aren't reading Conby as much, but even people that regularly comment and review didn't on this one. I wasn't feeling writing

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[prehistoriccat]

We've all been there hun, especially over the last few months. Don't beat yourself up over it, sit back and take a breather. Perhaps the muse will suddenly refire when you least expect it. Perhaps your heart wasn't entirely in your last fic because it was just at the wrong time - its partly why I now dislike writing for ficathons or to deadlines; I have to write when the muse demands not when others demand. I could never make it as a real writer lol

The fandom generally is pretty quiet, and Conby even more so - I think for many now that they are together on screen its not quite so interesting writing or reading about them. Obviously being a couple is not worthy of a decent story these days! It may pick up when series 5 airs here properly (the UK is still the largest audience) and when that announcement for series 6 comes, I think it will pick up again...

I got myself very worked up when I couldn't write Conby a while ago to a point where I was in tears over it. I was afraid I'd lose the wonderful friends I've made here through my writing if I stopped. I guess I'm a different position in that I do write other pairings in the fandom, and I've also written Gen... maybe that's a way you could go? Take Connor on a wild adventure somewhere, or maybe write a backstory for him set pre-series? Send him off to Vancouver and lead the New World team? (LOL, I tried that with Danny and suddenly the fic became Connor and Abby without me realising it... and the same's happened with my big bang fic - it started as Abby angst and thought I might develop into to a romance with the 'other' Matt towards the end... but again that old Conby has come into it) What I'm trying to say in a long winded way is just go with the flow... what will be will be.

((hugs)) for you and the battered old muse. Let him/her have a bit of a break and he/she'll be back with all guns blazing in their own sweet time

[casy_dee]

*hugs* Thank you! You're right, and I know it. I just need some time away from Conby. Part of my concern is that I'd lose my lovely friends because I wasn't writing in the same fandom. :( I still worry about that a bit, though I know I shouldn't.

I think I'm going to focus on Gabriel, and then perhaps I'll write some Gen when I need a brain breather from Gabe's story. I started to write on Connor's youth before and stalled. Maybe I'll tackle it again.

*hugs* Thanks for reassuring me and calming me off my depressive spiral... neurotic writers, eh?

[prehistoriccat]

We'll always be here, and I am already a huge fan of Gabe so I'll be waiting with bated breath for any updates on what is happening with him. Of course he should be your main focus at the moment and its understandable that other stuff is not your mind's priority. Just please keep encouraging the rest of us neurotic writers occasionally ;)