On the writing front...
May. 17th, 2005 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhienellethI'm not trying to spam LJ today, seriously. I'm stuck doing something fairly monotonous at work, though, which requires frequent breaks to recharge the mind. :)
For those of you who didn't know, or hadn't guessed, my writing muse deserted me there for awhile. A looooooong while. I tried writing different fics in various fandoms, working on my own WIPs of original work, pulling out old, older, and really ancient files of half formed ideas and barely started prose. Nothing worked.
The new laptop, while very cool, has not yet helped.
I dislike the phrase "writer's block". I don't really believe in it, you see. If I really have to, I've always been able to sit down and write something. Maybe not the thing I originally intended, but something. Lately, though, I haven't. I'm not sure why. It isn't a lack of ideas, so much as a lack of...words that I like appearing on the page. Everything I've written in the last few months has felt blah and bland and uninteresting to me, resulting in a lack of will to write anything. Very frustrating. And depressing. Especially when you consider that it has been my life-long dream to do this with my life. To write fantastical stories about engaging charactersthat myself and others would enjoy reading.
Well, ever since I watched Phantom in the theater, I felt sure that someone would write Phantom/Meg fic somewhere. Except that I have yet to find any. In fact, the only fic I've found at all for Phantom has been on message boards frequented by what appear to be thirteen-year-olds on their first forays into fic and fandom. *shudders* So after watching it for the third time the other day, I sat down at my shiny new laptop and started a fic. But this time after I wrote the first page or so and went back and read it, the words didn't fall flat to my ear. They actually sounded good. So it looks like I'm going to continue it. Maybe even finish it. And maybe that will break this terrible cycle I find myself in, and get me back on track with the original WIPs I've been wanting to work on.
I can only hope.
For those of you who didn't know, or hadn't guessed, my writing muse deserted me there for awhile. A looooooong while. I tried writing different fics in various fandoms, working on my own WIPs of original work, pulling out old, older, and really ancient files of half formed ideas and barely started prose. Nothing worked.
The new laptop, while very cool, has not yet helped.
I dislike the phrase "writer's block". I don't really believe in it, you see. If I really have to, I've always been able to sit down and write something. Maybe not the thing I originally intended, but something. Lately, though, I haven't. I'm not sure why. It isn't a lack of ideas, so much as a lack of...words that I like appearing on the page. Everything I've written in the last few months has felt blah and bland and uninteresting to me, resulting in a lack of will to write anything. Very frustrating. And depressing. Especially when you consider that it has been my life-long dream to do this with my life. To write fantastical stories about engaging charactersthat myself and others would enjoy reading.
Well, ever since I watched Phantom in the theater, I felt sure that someone would write Phantom/Meg fic somewhere. Except that I have yet to find any. In fact, the only fic I've found at all for Phantom has been on message boards frequented by what appear to be thirteen-year-olds on their first forays into fic and fandom. *shudders* So after watching it for the third time the other day, I sat down at my shiny new laptop and started a fic. But this time after I wrote the first page or so and went back and read it, the words didn't fall flat to my ear. They actually sounded good. So it looks like I'm going to continue it. Maybe even finish it. And maybe that will break this terrible cycle I find myself in, and get me back on track with the original WIPs I've been wanting to work on.
I can only hope.
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Date: 2005-05-17 06:32 pm (UTC)Girl believe me when I tell you that everything I've been reading lately has been below the usual standards. Quite frustrating.
Give it time and don't give up just yet ;) Maybe you just have to watch/read something inspiring....like the new SW film (if you're a fan)?
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Date: 2005-05-17 06:35 pm (UTC):)
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Date: 2005-05-18 07:48 am (UTC)