this post should be read in the whiniest tone imaginable

[lirazel]

what am i going to write for seasonal_spuffy? am i even going to be able to write anything? i haven't written anything longer than, like, 500 words in forever, and i feel like i have completely lost all of my writing abilities. uuuuugh.

if i didn't have to be at work i would spend this day lay face-down on my bed moaning about how i never accomplish anything. which isn't even true, it's just what i feel like today. uuuuuugh.



i promise I'll be back to my regular chipper self soon--if all else fails i'll go home and watch clips of david mitchell ranting on youtube. this has been a whiny post. because what is lj but a place to be ludicrously self-indulgant, right?

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[angearia.livejournal.com]

Writing woes suckitty suck suck.

I've been feeling like I'm in a rut, too, like I need to get the engine revving. And two things that helped was talking with someone else about fic which prompted ideas, then the person was all GO WRITE THIS (that's how I wrote the Spike as Bug Queen story, I was helping Bob with her story and I kept having ideas in the process that became a story of my own).

The other thing that always inspires me is other sources of art. Fanvids about the ship that evoke a certain mood, a song that I've always loved that maybe gives me an idea, the source canon itself maybe leaving a dangling thread.

When I feel like this, it's like my brain isn't firing on all cylinders and I have to lend it some spark. So I try to immerse myself in things that inspire creative thought. I also tend to avoid fanfic like the plague during this type of thing because it can be more of a deterrent for me (the one exception being one of Moscow Watcher's fics).

But that's my process. Maybe tell me a bit more about yours? I'll be the Kaylee to your creative writing engine.

If you wanna talk about stories, I'm always always around!

*HUGS*