Round 71, Hour 47

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the last stretch of Round 71! No matter what you're doing, GO FOR IT!!!! Remember, we're all here to cheer you on!

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[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I have started work on a third Chocolate Box treat. Erm...woot?

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I believe that is woot woot woot!!!

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

All right. I'm going to draft the draftiest awful draft anyone ever drafted.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

You can do it! We believe in your ability to draft that drafty, awful draft!

Also, it's a lot easier to edit something into a great fic when that something exists in the first place, so hurrah for making something exist!

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

Yes. I just have to make a series of entirely clunky sentences happen so that later I can try to make them slightly less clunky but stuff will have been narrated. ARGH. Why do I write?

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

You write because more fic creates a better world for all of us. Go forth, noble fic writer, and help humanity through making fic!

[http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/]

Oh! Good point. I like the existence of fic and there is some chance that I can contribute to it if I ever finish any damn thing again.

[rosiedlotrfan.livejournal.com]

Still not feeling the writing. I think I'm going to have a go at scrapbooking - I've got a whole bunch of saved newspaper articles cluttering up the place, and I bought a scrapbook/album type thing before Christmas. Hopefully this will get me out of not-feeling-it mode and into fic-writing mode :(

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Staring at a blank computer screen has never worked for me either, and getting your mind engaged in a different creative activitiy sounds like a great strategy. Go, scrapbook, go go go!

[rosiedlotrfan.livejournal.com]

Go go going!

First rule of scrapbooking: if you're using top-loading plastic protecters for the paper, putting them in the album upside-down and then trying to get the paper out of the top is not going to get you very far!!

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

LOL, useful tip!

[candidlily.livejournal.com]

(Realizing I posted on the wrong hour, oops!)

I haven't written a single word yet today, alas. I was up all night with a stomach bug and then slept half the afternoon away while still feeling pretty shaky. Finally starting to feel normal again, though, so hopefully I'll have something to report next hour.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Really glad you're starting to feel better! Ease into it, and don't ask too much of your body or your mind. (Psst -- you can still write even after fic_rush is over.)

[rosiedlotrfan.livejournal.com]

First article (local fire company gets Ford Model T pumper that they used in 1921 returned to them).

Discoveries:
1) I need a bigger desk.
2) I'm still as klutzy with a glue stick as I was when I was 5.
3 (more of a affirmation of what I already knew) Cat hair gets bloody EVERYWHERE!!!

4) I'm feeling so much more energised aready!!!! :DDDD

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

YAY, well done!

And yes, I hear you about the cat hair. I had to take my cat for a vet check-up recently, and he was so nervous, he was ejecting hair like a porcupine ejecting quills. The poor vet tech kept getting cat hair on the needle she was trying to use to draw blood!

[rosiedlotrfan.livejournal.com]

Oh lord, the stress shedding - I know it so well!