I have all these fandom icons and no reason to use them anymore.

[carolinecrane]

I keep formulating all these posts in my head, but then I actually open the post window and my only coherent thought is 'ugh'. Followed swiftly by 'do not want', and then I click away and find something else to waste my time on

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[duckduck]

I hear you. Despair! Except that I'm reading fic, not original fiction, which in light of all of my goals and whatnot is an abysmal failure. FAIL!

[carolinecrane]

I can't even read fic anymore. Not even the stuff by people I know and like as human beings. I click links on my flist occasionally and get like two sentences in, then get depressed and close the window. It's weird.

[superslothic]

because how many times can you tell the same story, you know?

I hear ya. I've seen loads of repeats in my stuff as well, but at least you have the excuse of being profilic. But, hey, apparently all John Grisham books are the same book and he don't seem to mind, so. *shrugs*

Maybe you just need a challenge to make you write something different? Like...I dunno, a round robin with somebody polar opposite. Then they'd keep changing the story course away from your normal ruts and vice versa and then everybody has to think outside of their normal boxes. Or something.

[carolinecrane]

I'm ashamed to admit that I am the worst person ever to write with, because I'm an annoying freaky control freak. I bet you're right and if I got over myself and RPed with someone, it would help me out of my rut. Only the few times I've tried traditional RP, the other people were lame and wrote super short responses to my paragraphs of fic. (Perhaps the problem is me and my inability to shut up!)

Anyway, you've got a point about Grisham. A lot of those bestsellers, really, and people keep going back because they know what to expect. I just don't understand how they're not all bored to tears with themselves by now.

[rabidfan]

There are no new stories...we have been telling the same ones for 6,000 years. It's not the retelling that's bad. It's the bad retelling. Your stories are warm, in a "my favorite sweater" kind of way; always leading to smiles and delight. How can that ever be bad? You are always your own worst critic, whether in your fic or your personal life, so I refuse to listen to negativity! Your stories are not stale, hackneyed or dull. They are winsome and winning...and I long for more.

[carolinecrane]

Exactly my point: there are no new stories. I suspect that my current ennui has to do with all the other stuff going on in my life. I keep trying to get myself over it, but it seems like so much work.

Anyway, thanks. I can live with 'my favorite sweater'. When I get too depressed about my hackneyed writing I remind myself that a writer I respect very much has expressed an admiration for my writing style, so it can't be *that* bad.

[rabidfan]

Listen to this writer! Golden words!

[ruggerdavey]

I'm sort of dragging my heels about reading it because I know how horrible it's going to get when they reach the concentration camp.

Why do you think I read through the first few sections, and then just...stopped. Hence me letting you borrow it.

Anyway. *crosses fingers for you on the writing front* And ditto on rabidfan's comments on your writing style. Your stories never felt repetitive to me. Which is the hallmark of good writing, I suppose.

[carolinecrane]

Why do you think I read through the first few sections, and then just...stopped.

Yeah, I figured. It's a beautiful story, but...yeah. I'm determined, but I'm reading like four books at once right now to distract myself from the pain.

[ruggerdavey]

I'm determined, but I'm reading like four books at once right now to distract myself from the pain.

I know. It's just...whoa. The Mom was reading Elie Weisel while she was here, and she likes to share passages of books while she reads, and I was all "ack! no!" because Night is just...heart-wrenching.

[spoiledjap]

Wow, I'm late on the comment. Thank you work :(. I too, shall reiterate what Cheri said. Though some of your stories have the same concept, they never seem repetitive and this coming from the girl that has reread Speed/Tyler a billion times and the N/G fetish series a billion and one. I love you.

[carolinecrane]

Thanks, that means a lot.