I'm posting from my phone so forgive me for any mistakes. I'll fix them when im at my computer. Anyway drop me a comment and let me know how your hour went : )
I think I've come up with a solution to my 'not enough time, too many KB fics to finish' -problem: a fic shan't be longer than 3 000 words.
Yes! That's the magic limit - if I can't get to smut in that time, well then, there is something integrally wrong in the fic in the first place and I should chuck it away and start again.
I believe I have discovered a method in my madness! (let's see how I feel about it few hours down the road :P)
Too tired to write, but can't sleep. Phooey. And I think I had a vague idea that might have helped give my fic a little more purpose, but I can't remember it.
The teasing memories of fics I have written that have caught me by the throat and just poured themselves into the keyboard, no questions asked, just there, ready for me to write down, are so not helping me here. I can't seem to get any flow here; none of the sections of the fic are flowing at all.
I feel existential despair coming on. My fic must be bad; if it were viable fic, it would have at least *some* flow happening, somewhere, surely?
I need more glowsticks. And maybe a goat to rename. And sleep. And a kitten, I want a kitten.
*resolved face* I WILL SLEEP. AND THEN I WILL WRITE. And if it's dreck, well, okay then. I will dye my hair and buy sunglasses and change my name and move to Tierra del Fuego and never write another word ever again ever, even on shopping lists. So there, you smug bastard of a fic. You are not the boss of me. *SCOWLY FACE*
Hello, fellow existential despair-ist! I have managed to convince myself that a) my writing sucks and b) all my fics suck and NO HAPPY MEMORIES. But we shall overcome, right? We are the greatest and no smug bastard fics will bring us down! ...Or we can all move to Tierra de Fuego, and communicate our shopping lists in mimes?
*eyes smug bastard fics threateningly* I like your theory. It's too early to give in and give up, right? We pledge to disavow all (putative) suckage and at least *postpone* despair?
*solidarity, steely-eyed determination (mimes in reserve, just in case...)*
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Date: 2012-09-22 06:43 am (UTC)Yes! That's the magic limit - if I can't get to smut in that time, well then, there is something integrally wrong in the fic in the first place and I should chuck it away and start again.
I believe I have discovered a method in my madness! (let's see how I feel about it few hours down the road :P)
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Date: 2012-09-22 06:54 am (UTC)The teasing memories of fics I have written that have caught me by the throat and just poured themselves into the keyboard, no questions asked, just there, ready for me to write down, are so not helping me here. I can't seem to get any flow here; none of the sections of the fic are flowing at all.
I feel existential despair coming on. My fic must be bad; if it were viable fic, it would have at least *some* flow happening, somewhere, surely?
I need more glowsticks. And maybe a goat to rename. And sleep. And a kitten, I want a kitten.
*resolved face* I WILL SLEEP. AND THEN I WILL WRITE. And if it's dreck, well, okay then. I will dye my hair and buy sunglasses and change my name and move to Tierra del Fuego and never write another word ever again ever, even on shopping lists. So there, you smug bastard of a fic. You are not the boss of me. *SCOWLY FACE*
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Date: 2012-09-22 07:06 am (UTC)But we shall overcome, right? We are the greatest and no smug bastard fics will bring us down!
...Or we can all move to Tierra de Fuego, and communicate our shopping lists in mimes?
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Date: 2012-09-22 07:19 am (UTC)This would make me very happy. :-)
*eyes smug bastard fics threateningly* I like your theory. It's too early to give in and give up, right? We pledge to disavow all (putative) suckage and at least *postpone* despair?
*solidarity, steely-eyed determination (mimes in reserve, just in case...)*
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Date: 2012-09-22 02:07 pm (UTC)Sorry, couldn't resist.