Writer's Cramp
Why is it that I always pick Blindfold prompts that give me ideas way beyond comment-fic length? Arrgghh. It's not even that I can't write short, filthy PWPs where the action has already begun pre-fic and it's all fucking, all the way, with little clues and phrases here and there to fill in the backstory as I go. I've managed it before (Tsunami springs to mind). But I seem to really go for AU prompts that beg for lead-in and build-up, and then I realize I've written 1k+ and the kissing hasn't even started yet, much less the porn. It's not like you NEED all this characterization, FFS - y'all know who X and Y are already! *headdesk*
There might only be one fill from me this round, poppets. Starting to suspect that this one might take me all fricken week on its own. It's eating my brain; I had to force myself to bed last night, and I nearly made myself late for work because I thought I'd add "just" a couple paras this morning, and got hooked in again. And it wasn't even my first choice of prompt, but I had firmer ideas for it so I started into it first on the assumption that I'd be doing several, as usual. *double headdesk*
...Oh my God, I'm making posts to wail about my WRITING and my PROCESS. I'm nowhere near enough of a writer to pull that off. I think I need an intervention, or at least a Gibbs-style headsmack.
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ETA: Scratch that, I'm working on this thing so obsessively it'll likely be finished and posted tonight, I wrote all through lunch break and in sneaky chunks between appointments at work (yay for IE's In-Private browser!). I'm really pleased with how it's coming together, but it seems to be taking much longer than usual to write. I think the first 700 words took me two freaking hours.
There might only be one fill from me this round, poppets. Starting to suspect that this one might take me all fricken week on its own. It's eating my brain; I had to force myself to bed last night, and I nearly made myself late for work because I thought I'd add "just" a couple paras this morning, and got hooked in again. And it wasn't even my first choice of prompt, but I had firmer ideas for it so I started into it first on the assumption that I'd be doing several, as usual. *double headdesk*
...Oh my God, I'm making posts to wail about my WRITING and my PROCESS. I'm nowhere near enough of a writer to pull that off. I think I need an intervention, or at least a Gibbs-style headsmack.
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ETA: Scratch that, I'm working on this thing so obsessively it'll likely be finished and posted tonight, I wrote all through lunch break and in sneaky chunks between appointments at work (yay for IE's In-Private browser!). I'm really pleased with how it's coming together, but it seems to be taking much longer than usual to write. I think the first 700 words took me two freaking hours.