Fanfic: Pills

[gildedmuse]

So, I know I haven't written anything here in a good while. I have a handful of explanations, but why waste the space? Anyway, to combat the world's worst writer's block, I've decided that every day I'm going to write... something. Lord knows if it will make sense, but damnit all if I won't write it anyway.

Title: Pills
Fandom: Firefly/Serenity

Comments

[shadow_mage]

I'll never get over how intriguing your writing seems to me, even when you have Writer's Block. Using writing to conquer it, I must learn this.

[gildedmuse]

Hell, I'm just trying to figure it out myself. I've actually been practicing it in physical written form for a bit, which was very cathartic, until I lost my whole fucking notebook. With my daily scribbles, my original writings, my biggest fandom thing and, yeah, okay a bunch of Mary Sues which is embarrassing but there you go and, right, my school work. Who the fuck steals a notebook that's beaten up and mostly full, anyway?

... I'm hoping to avoid that a second time with the LJ postings.

[shadow_mage]

You do the notebook thing too? I thought I was the only one. Even among my desktop computer, and now my new netbook, too, I still scribble away in my notebooks. :D

[gildedmuse]

I think it's easier to just let yourself go when your hand writing it. Not that I can't get a good ramble going in type form - if nothing else, I have proven this to the internet - but it feels much more direct, doesn't it, from brain to pencil to paper. There's a lot less distraction and not as much time to think. Less easy to stop midway and change what you just said. Sure, you can cross out or erase, but when your laying it out on paper it's easier to get caught up in the flow of it. No time to stop, might as well finish that word now that it's half way there. It's good for the brain.

Bad for my nerves, though. And for my OCD ticks as learned from my mother.