Trust me to stress about something that hasn't happened yet...

Aug 31, 2010 12:06

I was hoping my two-week hiatus would leave me with a head full of fic ideas, and it hasn't. Not one. And now I'm back at work I'm jonesing to write, but I'm stumped. Dammit.

Do you know, I actually spent nearly half an hour on the phone to my brother the other day, worrying about whether or not I would fall out of love with The Magnificent SevenI ( Read more... )

ships: arthur/eames, tv: the magnificent seven, movies: inception, fandom: fanfic

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valiha August 31 2010, 16:07:07 UTC
I've learned to take it in stride. Right now I'm in a phase where I don't have much inspiration to create new art, so I'm watching something new (I've been seriously bitten by the Firefly bug), and I'm participating in my and Mag7 first Big Bang. I just claimed my two stories. This will lead to me dabbling in Photoshop, discarding numerous designs, swearing at my slow computer/dumb ideas/busy schedule, but it will get me going. And somewhere along the way I'll get to that level of enthusiasm which will enable me to produce something I'm happy with and proud to share with others ( ... )

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slavelabour August 31 2010, 22:09:20 UTC
Stop sweating it! I figured out my own pattern a long time ago and it goes in cycles. I'm mad for reading, it passes, I'm mad for writing, it passes, I'm mad for photoshop, it passes, I'm mad for X, it passes. I only worry when one doesn't automatically give way to something else (that's the norm for me). I have found that I can kill my own love affair for whatever I'm working on by fretting over it. I'll work on something until it starts to feel like work. And that's when it's time to stop because I'm pushing. And if I keep pushing, I'll just resent it and stress myself into pushing harder and just resent it even more. I can rinse, repeat until I don't love it anymore. =( Maybe just write until it stops being fun, C. But is it ok to hang out in your lj even if you're not writing C/V? Because, in case I've never said, I do enjoy you for more than that. {hugs}

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denorios September 1 2010, 06:35:36 UTC
Don't you dare leave me! *clings* If my M7 love does fade I'll need you to drag me back in kicking and screaming. And it won't go away, per se, I just won't be as crazy mad for it as I am right now. And I don't want that to happen!

*worries*

Silly, huh?

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slavelabour September 1 2010, 16:50:55 UTC
Nah, it's okay! Nobody knows you better than yourself, it's cool. If you go away I can always try to seduce you with some pretty C/V manips or little snippets of licky,lovey thoughts or SOMETHING. I mean, I can prattle about C/V for days. I think I have already, more than once! I'm sure I can find something to make you swoony. *evil grin*

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insane_duckfish September 1 2010, 07:49:32 UTC
Ugh, I know the feeling :( Since drifting away from SGA, I haven't found any fandom that I've loved as much or as enduringly. I thought it could be Red Dwarf, actually, and I desperately wanted to keep that love alive, but it just wandered off. I'm still looking, I guess.

It's weird, I was reading an article about how some people will only have One True Fandom, some people will only love one fandom at a time but will move from one to another over time, and some people are just constantly immersed in a million different fandoms. I always thought I was the last one, but a few months ago I realised I'm actually the second one. It's just that my fannish attention span is so short that it LOOKS like I have a lot of interests at once. But when I'm loving a show, I don't have ROOM for anything else. My max is 2 fandoms at once, anything more than that and I don't care enough. But as my fandoms can change weekly, it sort of seems as if I have a lot at once.

When I started goblinmarket_sw, I was terrified I'd lose interest in the fandom within a few ( ... )

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denorios September 1 2010, 08:56:16 UTC
That's because you haven't dipped into M7 yet! Just you wait, once you give it a try, you'll be hooked and you'll be posting like mad and maybe that will keep me in it too! *hints*

I'm exactly the same as you. I've never been a One True Fandom, my attention can't hold that long. I keep my fingers in lots of fandoms but I'm usually only ever obsessed with one at a time. And when I'm between obsessions an old one will tend to flare up for a while - it's as though I'm just not happy without that white-hot heat in my life. And I'm worried that my new love for Inception is shunting M7 to the side, however temporarily.

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