Weekly Check-in Post

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Hello, Pros people! This is your weekly check-in post. So come on, all you hard working writers out there, and chime in to let everybody know how your doing. Do you need help in any way? Do you already have an idea or need somebody to bounce an idea off of? Gently, of course. Those ideas can have sharp edges. I'm here to hash it over with you or to hold your hand if you like.

Or maybe you're finished, you spiffy little devil! Allow me to be suitably impressed.

And to help, here's our main influence, or as I like to think, something pretty to look at while you write you write your fabulous tome!

Comments

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm following my usual pattern of doing absolutely nothing during the first couple of months... I'd really like to break that pattern!

Here's an email I sent myself about the vague story idea I have: "All the demons you're fighting become assets. Headstrong becomes determined. Reckless becomes courageous." So what happens when you lose that?

The quotation is from another TV show, talking about someone who became a police officer, but then suddenly wasn't anymore.

Pondering away...

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

I've written this morning! All excited, although those paragraphs have made me sleepy and I must take a kip before writing more. I had an idea over a year ago, and have finally almost got to the place where I can write the scene I imagined then--only 30 pages into the story. Now, to find out what happens afterward...that's the quest.

Lovely inspiration.

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Still sitting at ~11,500 words. Haven't written in a long while. But I'm off work for a few weeks and the plan is to fill the hours with writing!

And thanks for providing some inspiration! *g*

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

I have bought a new notebook *g* Sketched some more story outline notes and rough structure in it. There is underlining and some arrows.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

The more I think about my plot idea the more infeasible it seems. I think I'm at about -2000 words now. :D

So, it's time to consider if I should abandon this idea and try to come up with another one.

[garonne.livejournal.com]

Last time I checked in I had about a 10000 words and was debating whether to abandon the story and start something completely new or not... Well, in the end I stuck with it, and it seems to be working out! 13000 words now :)

[murphybabe]

Erm... doing? Should I be doing something? *looks round wildly*

Oh, oh, I know! I had an idea about a piercing!

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

I have lots of post it notes. . . .

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Well, I haven't written a single word more than last time, but I went to the pool and did some anemic swimming tonight. Woot! :D

Almost done

[longstrt.livejournal.com]

I've gone about 25,000 words done and I am definitely in the home stretch where one gorgeous body meets another gorgeous body. Of course, there's lots of tweaking to be done, but it feels good to be so close.

lbc

Any help?

[natsuko1978.livejournal.com]

I am not so much *blocked*, in a completely unable to put pen to paper way, but... sort of constipated. :(

There's too much going on in my head that is *not* the story. Worry about reception, about whether certain specific people in the fandom whom I like or whose work I adore will like it (I have at least managed to get the three fics in progress narrowed down to one that will definitely be my BB... probably), worry about being trite or rehashing old themes, or just being crap. Not at writing itself, but at writing two men who are about as far from my character as is humanly possible. I think I have more in common with a mass murderer than I do Bodie and Doyle.

How do you - people at this comm - shut out and shut down the fear of failure and the self-comparisons that are fatal to creativity?

I don't even know if my idea is a good idea.