[identity profile] saintvic.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] ci5_boxoftricks
Hi everyone and welcome to the weekly check in post. Just a few links for you this week, hopefully you’ll find them distracting interesting. So to start with a couple of pages with quotes about writing: Quotes about writers and writing and More quotations about writing

My fav of the quotes is: "Every novel should have a beginning, a muddle, and an end." (Peter De Vries).

Next to give us all something to avoid and have a giggle, and maybe an occasional wince, over here are links to some of the winners / contenders for Literary Review’s annual bad sex in fiction awards.

Passages from the 2010 winner, past contenders, a few more, and the 1994 - 2004 winners

And lastly, as I am currently impersonating the chicken in this cartoon:



A couple of links to posts about writer’s block: Hack your way out of writer‘s block and Symptoms and Cures for writers block (for assignments but has some useful tips).

And, as always, please chat about anything you like, ask us questions, and let us know how you are getting on with your planning/writing/curing your amnesia.
From: [identity profile] draycevixen.livejournal.com

Apparently all of my pencils are eeeeevil... good to know. *nods* Evil wood... now there's an idea. *whistles*

The question I've been asking myself for the last few days is just how embarrassing would it be to to have to withdraw from the BB when I'm a co-mod? Yes, it's going that well. Ahem...

It's not even that the characters are refusing to do anything (for once) more that they're absolutely determined to do things that are making me wince and not want to write anything more for them. Yes, picture Drayce, pouting like an eight year old while muttering "shan't, you can't make me, nuh huh." Yes, I'm looking at you in particular, Doyle. *glares*

My current strategy is to write other things instead and/or spend my time uploading to AO3. I call this "the Ostrich technique." /ramble.

I'm hoping there will be inspirational tales of derring-do under this post. *settles in to wait*
From: [identity profile] moth2fic.livejournal.com
I should try freezing him out for a few days - say till the weekend or after - and see if he decides to play ball. Muses can be incredibly bossy...
From: [identity profile] liriel1810.livejournal.com
Doyle is a stroppy, recalcitrant bugger, isn't he? I recommend a bucket of vodka in his orange juice... and it sounds like Bodie could use the same drink. Perhaps they'll be more pliable if they're hung over?

Date: 2011-04-13 06:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] togsos.livejournal.com
Writers hurry your arses up i want to start drawing <--- emm yes thats what passes for uplifting encouragement down our way! Seriously i spelt that with pompoms, it wasnt easy!!

Date: 2011-04-13 07:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] draycevixen.livejournal.com

We're suffering as fast as we can go, Tog. :D

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Date: 2011-04-14 03:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com
Heh - me too! My GIMP finger is getting twitchy *g*

Ok... am I the first? Bowing out comment - waah!

Date: 2011-04-13 08:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greengerbil.livejournal.com
Sorry chaps and chappesses, but I think I'm going to have to stop dithering and make the break... yup, I'm dropping out now rather than taking it all the way to the wire and then letting you all down. *sigh*

It's not so much a missing muse as sheer bloody knackeredness! (I think. At least, that's what I keep telling myself.) I started back at work a couple of weeks ago, and even though I've adjusted back to the shift working and so on, I am so damn tired when I get home that writing is just... no. It's all I can do to keep up with what's afoot on lj, never mind actually doing summat, you know, creative!

On the good side - I take early retirement at the end of the year (working on the principle of 'jump before you're pushed *g*) so for next year's Big Bang... hey, I should be well up for that!

Especially as I'm determined to keep pecking away at the two stories I've got started in the meantime, so by next year I may even have some idea of where they're going.

I'm so sorry, folks - but what with the thyroid, and a numb mouth from the wisdom tooth paralysing a nerve, and not one but two hospital visits in the offing... I just can't settle to writing anything - not even the lads.

Feel free to burn me in effigy at the next pool party and hopefully I'll be back all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed next year...

*disappears into nest and hides at the back*
From: [identity profile] draycevixen.livejournal.com

I'm so sorry to hear that you're still having health problems and I can only guess how exhausted you must be right now.

To be clear, you haven't let anyone down. Your health and sanity comes first, natch, and fandom is supposed to be fun, NOT feel like one more thing beating you down.

But, just in case, PLEASE do bear in mind that as you did sign up on time you do have until the rough drafts are due on the 28th of June if you should rally, inspiration suddenly strikes... or something like that. *g* That's ultimately the date at which anyone else would be inconvenienced if you dropped out after it as that's when the artists get to choose their story and start their work.

Again, you haven't inconvenienced anyone and get well soon. ♥
From: [identity profile] sc-fossil.livejournal.com
I'm so sorry to hear you're having health issues, plus knackered from working. No worries. If you want to consider yourself out, that's fine. But as Drayce said, you do have plenty of time if something should strike before the end of June.

I was looking forward to your story but I understand how things go sometimes. Or don't go, as the case may be.

Take Care!
From: [identity profile] moth2fic.livejournal.com
So sorry to hear of the problems but the early retirement is good news - believe me from one who did it - and you have now made a start for next year so yay!! Much better to opt out now and not add to your stress!
From: [identity profile] norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com
Aw - I'm sorry to hear that, but your health must always be your priority - and you've been through the mill lately so I'm not surprised you're completely knackered.

Best wishes for recovery (and I can sympathise with the numb mouth thing after having a wisdom tooth out - it took 3 months for one side of my mouth and jaw to get feeling back - but it does come back) and I'm looking forward to next year already!
From: [identity profile] liriel1810.livejournal.com
Awww, sorry to hear that you're having to drop out, but your health is definitely more important. Lots of rest and tea and hopefully you'll be all well and raring to go next year. *hugs*

Date: 2011-04-13 09:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sc-fossil.livejournal.com
I am writing away. I'm actually making good progress. I just don't know if it's interesting enough to post. I might be the second mod to disappear... *bg*

Date: 2011-04-13 11:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] draycevixen.livejournal.com

Pfffft! Of course it'll be interesting enough to post.

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Date: 2011-04-14 07:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moth2fic.livejournal.com
The only way you can find out is to post it... Most people seem to think that way about their own work. I think it's called cold feet. We are all eagerly awaiting your story!

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Date: 2011-04-14 04:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com
My pom poms - let me show you them!

I bet it's brill! And it doesn't have to be perfect for the first draft anyway - plenty of time to fine tune after that.

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Date: 2011-04-14 01:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] golden-bastet.livejournal.com
Me? I'm still working on Practice Fic, which I had a major epiphany about (about? over? with?) a few days ago. Yay! And today someone read over what I do have - major "taking stock" moment. She's not in the fandom, so it's new to her ("the Cow" made her laugh), but she gave very helpful feedback (I had to explain something, which lit a few lightbulbs).

I also have someone else in the fandom who'll take a look at it as well. But I do need a formal beta, and I haven't gotten a chance to ask for that yet.

So while I'm not yet at the big bang fic itself, there's definitely progress goin' on. :D

Now if I can only get the time to bang the rest of the Easter fic out... :scratches head:

Date: 2011-04-14 10:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sc-fossil.livejournal.com
Cool. Writing is good. Practicing is good too. :)

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Date: 2011-04-14 03:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com
Heh - I love that cartoon! Writer's block is the fault of evil pencils, and obviously artist's block is evil image software. *nods*

Date: 2011-04-15 02:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] liriel1810.livejournal.com
And to modernize that cartoon... I'm blaming evil keyboards! I have about 1500 words, of which I think about 1200 is utter rubbish. *sigh* Bodie and Doyle aren't talking to each other, and nor are they talking to me.

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