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Have writer's block. Have been staring at the same paragraph for nearly two hours now. Have erased it, rewritten it, modified it, erased it all again, and started over several times now and still can't move past it. Am a bit annoyed.
Maybe I should start outlining my writing? I always hated that part of the 'Writing Process' in all my English classes. I was always the one who would write the entire paper (Coincidently my first draft and final draft were always incredibly similar. As in 'OMG - They're identical except she ran spell check on the final version!' similar.) and THEN I would write the outline. Which meant my paper was pretty much finished by the time the outline was due, but I think I may have been missing the point of the exercise.
Only one of the stories that I'm currently working on has an actual outline and that was more of a joke than anything. Plus the outline ended about five chapters ago.
Everything else has a sort of 'I know the bare point of what I want to happen in this chapter, possibly even know how I want the story to end (aside from teh hawt smoochies, that is)' feel to it, which is how I've written things for the last two decades.
But I haven't really produced anything since August/September. I managed a 200 drabble but that was about it. I've got four main pieces that are all overdue and I'm coming up blank for all of them.
Maybe it's the new house and the fact that I still have things to unpack and I feel like I should be doing something else...
The only writing I've really managed is for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
bw_afterglow. And the two characters I write for there do not make a single appearance in any of my stories. Maybe that's the problem. Maybe I've put so much effort into writing for Moaning Myrtle and Gilderoy Lockhart, I've lost touch with my other characters?
Since it's the only writing I can produce at the moment - behold Myrtle Finally Gives Up On Harry. Oh, the comedy, the drama, teh hawt sexiness. Okay, fine. It made me giggle at least.
BTW - We're always looking for new players atbw_afterglow. Now that Myrtle's finally given up on Harry, she needs someone new to play with. Don't you want to help her out?
ETA: I want icons. I demand pretty, pretty Snape Icons. Is that too much to ask? Or maybe something from the kitty/ferret/cutesy animal line? Also - it's two thirty in the morning. Maybe going to bed would be a good idea.
ETA, AGAIN: It's three forty in the morning and I've made an Icon for myself. It sucks. But it has Loki in it so there.
ETA, AGAIN: I made another one. But I have to get permission to use it first - although it's already loaded into LJ (hint, hint). Can you tell that I'm very, very bored? I hate writer's block.
Maybe I should start outlining my writing? I always hated that part of the 'Writing Process' in all my English classes. I was always the one who would write the entire paper (Coincidently my first draft and final draft were always incredibly similar. As in 'OMG - They're identical except she ran spell check on the final version!' similar.) and THEN I would write the outline. Which meant my paper was pretty much finished by the time the outline was due, but I think I may have been missing the point of the exercise.
Only one of the stories that I'm currently working on has an actual outline and that was more of a joke than anything. Plus the outline ended about five chapters ago.
Everything else has a sort of 'I know the bare point of what I want to happen in this chapter, possibly even know how I want the story to end (aside from teh hawt smoochies, that is)' feel to it, which is how I've written things for the last two decades.
But I haven't really produced anything since August/September. I managed a 200 drabble but that was about it. I've got four main pieces that are all overdue and I'm coming up blank for all of them.
Maybe it's the new house and the fact that I still have things to unpack and I feel like I should be doing something else...
The only writing I've really managed is for
bw_afterglow. And the two characters I write for there do not make a single appearance in any of my stories. Maybe that's the problem. Maybe I've put so much effort into writing for Since it's the only writing I can produce at the moment - behold Myrtle Finally Gives Up On Harry. Oh, the comedy, the drama, teh hawt sexiness. Okay, fine. It made me giggle at least.
BTW - We're always looking for new players at
bw_afterglow. Now that Myrtle's finally given up on Harry, she needs someone new to play with. Don't you want to help her out?ETA: I want icons. I demand pretty, pretty Snape Icons. Is that too much to ask? Or maybe something from the kitty/ferret/cutesy animal line? Also - it's two thirty in the morning. Maybe going to bed would be a good idea.
ETA, AGAIN: It's three forty in the morning and I've made an Icon for myself. It sucks. But it has Loki in it so there.
ETA, AGAIN: I made another one. But I have to get permission to use it first - although it's already loaded into LJ (hint, hint). Can you tell that I'm very, very bored? I hate writer's block.
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