Writer's block

[julesjones]

Excuse me, brain. We do not do writer's block.

We do getting distracted by shiny new idea, or forgetting what we were doing last time we picked up this story. We certainly do "I am bored with this idea now and want to play solitaire". We do cat-vacuuming. We do mucking about while waiting for the confabulator to finish slotting bits together neatly.

We do not do Yer Actual Writer's Block. The closest we get to it is occasionally getting blocked on one particular story, which is easily solved by moving to something else that was in the queue and writing 300 words per diem on that instead. We most certainly do not sit staring at the screen three days running, completely failing to come up with the next paragraph of something we actively wanted to write, and had the next scene of outlined.

There may have to be another bout of rummaging in the fanfic ideas drawer if this goes on. And we do not get paid for writing fanfic, do we?

Comments

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Excuse me, brain. We do not do writer's block.

If that's the case, could I swap my brain with yours, please? :)

[julesjones]

You do not want my brain. One of the things not listed in that rant is "we have random short-term memory drop-outs which render us temporarilyincapable of remembering what we were reading yesterday"... :-)

[doire]

Now I wish I'd nominated differential equations for Yuletide:(

I think my book tastes must be weird.

[julesjones]

Have you been looking at my most recent entries on my LibraryThing account? :-)

[jthijsen.livejournal.com]

Your cats hold still for being vacuumed? [is jealous]

[julesjones]

Obviously I need to re-post the cat-vacuuming explanation. :-)

[spindriftdancer.livejournal.com]

LOL. You vacuum your cat??? Mine would make a campaign of pooping on the floor for the next week if I tried that...

Oh, and I read your previous fanfic that you sent me. It was great (and it was ok that I didn't know the Dr.Who episodes. I picked it up). Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier. This week has been incredibly crazy! If you'd like more specific comments I can send it back.

[julesjones]

Re cat-vacuuming -- see about-to-be-made post.

More specific comments are always good. :-) But what I *need* to know (as opposed to would like to have) is a general whether it's good enough to post publicly, and whether there's anything that needs fixed before I do so.