I am so mad at Yahoo right now, I could spit nails ( Read more... )

I'm not sure I'll ever write again. Ever since my failure to complete my draft in time for last year's J2 Big Bang, I've barely written a thing. It's not just writer's block, it's writer's blah. I used to wake up Sunday morning just jazzed to get writing; now i can't even go in my office. What is WRONG with me? I still have ideas, i still get new ( Read more... )

So ever since I failed to get my rough draft done in time for this year's Big Bang, I have been unable to write. Well, I did get a tiny amount of long-hand done, but have I transcribed it yet? Nope. I have not sat down at my computer for over a month. The very idea of even going in that ROOM fills me with dread. I've had what I call Writer's Fear ( Read more... )

Today is so much bigger than me and my problems. It's a day of rejoicing, of family, of enjoying spring and a bright future. But here I am on the couch, alone and moping instead. I don't know what it is lately, I just can't seem to do anything right. I have ideas for jewellery and I can't make them work. I have easy home improvement to do, but it ( Read more... )

I have now been up pretty much all weekend, working on nothing but MoaM chapter 12, and I still can't get it right. ::laughs so she doesn't cry:: I cancelled plans and everything, just to give myself the whole weekend to write, and it's STILL NOT FUCKING DONE! Anyone out there want to finish it for me? Seriously, I've got the white flag in hand. ( Read more... )

Dear Self: please stop coming up with difficult scenes that are near-impossible to write. Maybe then you can post a chapter much sooner than once every five fucking months and your readers will actually respect you ( Read more... )

I would be so much more prolific as a writer if I wasn't so picky about quality. Three weekends in a row now, I've been ready to post Ch. 12 of "Measure of a Man," but I keep finding bits I'm not satisfied with and want to change. Today is no different. If it wasn't the big climax chapter, I might not be quite so obsessed with getting it just right ( Read more... )

Five months I've been working on this chapter. FIVE. I have rewritten the last six pages of it 12 times alone, and yet it still isn't right. Seriously, why can't it just get done? Why can't I get it right? I feel like I can't even trust my writerly instincts anymore. I've done every trick, asked for and received amazing advice, and i just keep ( Read more... )

I think I'm going to ask one of my cats to finish this damn chapter of "Measure of a Man." I've been working on it for months--no, seriously, literally, MONTHS--and it STILL isn't done, and it STILL isn't right. Even the chapter title is terrible! I've been trying to write just the final five pages for a month now, and it's wrong. The ideas, the ( Read more... )

LJ is being incredibly frustrating for me today--this is attemp #4 at posting. So I'm going to forego the cuts and just warn you up front: if you don't want to read a few quick spoilers from the recent "Of Grave Importance" episode, skip ahead to the paragraph numbered "2" below. S'alright? S'alright ( Read more... )