Comments | sollasollew11: Please excuse my rambling

sollasollew11

Please excuse my rambling

Mar 17, 2010 13:57

I don't like to talk about writing even though I love reading about other people's thoughts on writing and the writing process. I feel like it gives me ~pretensions~ or something. But. Fic deadlines are fast approaching and all I end up doing is thinking about style, fandom, and other people's meta.

This saves me from admitting that I'm blocked. ( Read more... )

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matchynishi March 17 2010, 21:09:31 UTC

yo. i am kind of blocked, but am forcing myself to write, so while the Words are there, they aren't very appealing ones. :| I have thus set myself a deadline of this sunday, coz i'll need the better part of the next week to punch it up to be at least kind of respectable slkfjsdkjsdflsdfdkljsdf. argh fic deadlines argh. >_< all the best.

i have opened your links but am not (re?)-reading them till after i have met my quota for today

ps: love your ~fandom fic phases~. :D i am more or less the same except i don't ever get rid of the wanting-sex phase lolol. "I sometimes like bad fic more than ok fic because bad fic done well is funny (though it might not have been intended to be) and unabashedly aimed at hitting some kink." <--- so true. I have more than a few badficcy guilty pleasures myself. XDDD

matchynishi March 17 2010, 21:48:47 UTC

hey also! i am curious, what is your new fandom? :)

sollasollew11 March 17 2010, 22:43:04 UTC

Speed/figure skating RPF. It is somehow horribly embarrassing to admit

matchynishi March 19 2010, 21:35:08 UTC

NO NO i have bookmarked 2 johnny weir posts to go through after k_x!!! :D

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myxstorie March 17 2010, 21:35:21 UTC

This post, I totally get you. I'm the same. When I first got into this fandom, I read anything and everything, mostly porn. Now, I don't tend to ~want~ to read very much, and what I do want to read has to be good. Really good, or I get bored. And I find myself skimming, if not totally skipping over, any porn there is.

I know it doesn't help, but you're definitely not alone in feeling blocked ♥ I was actually just writing a post about how much I'm struggling with fic, too, and it seems most people seem to be at a similar point right now. Maybe it's the time of the year. I don't want to get into a new fandom, I love the fandom I'm in, I just don't know what to write anymore because I want to be interesting and write something different, and I just can't THINK of anything.

I can't decide if I like Kame's new hairstyle or not XD I sort of do, but it does make him look EXACTLY like he did 5/6 years ago.. and I did love the style he had for the first half of YamaNade.

♥

sollasollew11 March 17 2010, 22:47:09 UTC

♥ It helps to know people are in the same boat. We all have fic writing spring fever! But I know what you're saying. Suddenly, I've reached a point where everything seems to have been done and what hasn't is just a foggy idea that refuses to coalesce into anything useful :( I have faith you'll work through it ♥

Kame's new hairstyle's cute but takes away from his ~glittery idol aura~. I think I like it because it makes him look exactly like he did 5 years ago :P

soundczech March 17 2010, 22:05:39 UTC

I'm really blocked too. In this weird way where for once I have the plot and characters and events and characters all mapped out. My problems is that there's this rhythm I usually write to, that is absolutely central to the way my sentences are structured and the way they flow. The way the whole story flows, really. That rhythm provides all my forward momentum and suddenly I can't find it. It's like I suddenly have two left feet. Only with words.

sollasollew11 March 17 2010, 22:50:31 UTC

Mmmm, I know what you mean. Sometimes I find that having everything plotted out hurts rather than helps. It's like, I know exactly what I want to happen next that I'm trapped by it and can't let the words flow. So loving the way you describe your writing process esp since your writing is so distinct for me and I can completely see you doing that.

gingifere March 17 2010, 23:23:43 UTC

hey so you still want me to beta...and are you still available to beta mine? i've got 3000 words and akdjf i am not even half done. god this fic will suck so hard.

also point 2? GOD I FEEL YOU.

sollasollew11 March 18 2010, 01:57:18 UTC

I would love for you to beta!...if I had anything for you to look at :( Can I hit you up later? Also, of course! Send it to me *grabby hands*

:(((( I miss the days I was a crazy sex monster :((((((

gingifere March 19 2010, 10:26:43 UTC

Ahaha, well as long as you don't email it to me the night before the dead line, it should be fine! Of course you can! skfk crying now I will be 100 times more paranoid about my fic...First I guess I should finish it though...

God, me too :( Remember when the Lips PV and me, you and lonelybusiness immediately wrote Akame porn? Good days.

naruchu March 18 2010, 10:51:23 UTC

HEY. Long time no talk. lol. Man. I've been blocked for years. Though sometimes I suspect it's my laziness... a couple of years ago, I just became really scrutinizing about my writing after churning out a bunch of fics within a short time. Still a dud now ))= Maybe I can't call it a block anymore.

Which new fandom did you post in?

I really liked Kame version 2004. Squeeled when I first saw that hairstyle back on him. =D/

sollasollew11 March 19 2010, 07:05:05 UTC

Hey girl :D How have you been? I know what you're talking about. Everybody says first drafts are more about vomiting over the pages but it's still hard not to judge. At least this means you're writing?

Pft. Olympics RPF. Nowhere near as respectable as your Naruto/Bleach/...other manga fandoms...

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