Comments | clawofcat: It's that time again

clawofcat

It's that time again

Oct 25, 2009 14:31

I've been keeping quiet on LJ the last few weeks now that I've entered the hermit stage of writing my seasonal_spuffyfic. I bitched and whined pretty frequently last year about IWRY, so I've tried to keep that minimal on this go round. Needless to say, I think I'll be able to get it done, but as is my usual way, I'll be writing up until the 11th hour. I have ( Read more... )

seasonal_spuffy, feel my angst, writing

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snickfic October 25 2009, 19:36:31 UTC

FWIW, I'm very much looking forward to the SS fic when you finish it. :)

clawofcat October 25 2009, 20:12:59 UTC

I hope it lives up to expectation. I've been feeling very anxious about it and can just imagine myself getting metaphorically booed off the stage.

snickfic October 25 2009, 20:15:42 UTC

Oh, whatever. People don't get booed out of SS. You and your luscious long plotty fic will be welcomed with open arms. :)

shapinglight October 25 2009, 19:55:42 UTC

Writing is hard. :(

clawofcat October 25 2009, 20:09:09 UTC

No truer words have ever been spoken.

I'm really bummed I won't be able to contribute to your Darla ficathon. There were just too many committments I found myself with in such a short period of time. I do very much look forward to reading what people come up with though.

shapinglight October 26 2009, 16:23:52 UTC

Never mind. Maybe next time.

sevendeadlyfun October 25 2009, 20:32:35 UTC

I've been feeling this way about my writing lately. I wanted to reinvigorate FmK with a new kinky fic and somehow I'm almost a thousands words into a comics canon Spike/Drusilla/Angel fic with no kink in sight. I have no idea why it's so serious or how it morphed. Very spooky.

clawofcat October 26 2009, 00:34:32 UTC

Sometimes a story goes in unexpected directions. Or sometimes circumstances change or you change and you just can't or don't want to stick with the original plan. Pass tells me all the time to let the characters tell the story, and it sounds like that might have happened here. They had ideas of their own :)

Goo luck with it and the reinvigoration of FmK. I was actually scrolling through old posts the other day looking for buffyversetop5 fodder. There were lots of good times with that comm. Hope things are good with you, too, and Italy is everything you hoped for. It's been a long time since we touched base.

rebcake October 25 2009, 23:29:57 UTC

I am not cut out to write plotty fics.

Hoo boy! I relate like whoa to that. However, I am more and more thinking that all the agony to come up with something worthwhile for these ficathons is a necessary part of it being worthwhile. Which doesn't help a whit while you are in the throes, but puts it into perspective afterward. Hopefully.

Anyway, we're all rooting for you, and absolutely feel your pain. I can't wait to see the results!

clawofcat October 26 2009, 00:30:11 UTC

I am more and more thinking that all the agony to come up with something worthwhile for these ficathons is a necessary part of it being worthwhile.I think you might be right. Last year's IWRY fic was also incredibly hard for me to write and it wound up being one of my favorite stories. Gus has been a wonderful support these last few weeks and he reminded me of something that I'd tried not to think about since I graduated. "Don't you see? When you do this to yourself to get the writing you want. You'll moan and you'll cry, you'll make yourself sick and sleep deprived. But I think that's sometimes what you have to do to write what you write. You become weak and tired because your characters are weak and tired. When you don't think there's anything left, you make it happen because that's how they struggle ( ... )