Aw. I didn't mean to knock your pleasure in your piccy, but I was getting worried. Reassure me. Give me a total word count (or page count if you've been doing the rough draft long hand).
What worried me was that it was LONG fic, which surely ,i>has to be a distraction? And you'd just had a bit of a break, which you probably needed... and then. I don't know if I should confess this or not, but while I thought your Eleven fic was lovely, if you'd been anywhere near me, you'd have seen me glaring. I couldn't believe you'd do that. I really couldn't. I wondered if it was work, all these distracto things (although I completely understand the temptation to rewrite Arthur Conan Doyle!!!)
Thing is, fanfic can be a nice break - but short fanfic, or finishing of already existing WIPs to clear your brain, surely? Like those memes that were around, or a drabble - drabbles work like sharpening a pencil.
As to what to do, frame your nice piccy, and put it up where you can see it to remind you to write rubbish until you get through this block. You can edit it later. Besides, you seem incapable of writing rubbish.
Maybe it's just me, because I find myself incapble of working full time and managing to write anything properly, but I doubt even your capabilities to make a decent stab at a novel while working full time, doing whatever rl stuff needs doing, and writing long fan fic, and doing fan art.
I mean, you do seem to be a person of many talents, so maybe I'm only judging by my feeble standards, but you got me worried for a bit. You've already proved you can write anything you try in fanfic brilliantly, so don't waste those talents with us forever. (Or, if that's what you'd rather do, just say, and let's scrap the novel plan, and I'll throw bunnies at you instead. But I don't think that's what you want, is it?)
Anyway, it's never the end of the world. :lol: Just reassure me a bit here, okay. And whatever you do, don't start another long fic. ;-D If you must do fanfic, you should finish those singing Sontarans!!!
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Date: 2010-08-29 06:16 pm (UTC)What worried me was that it was LONG fic, which surely ,i>has to be a distraction? And you'd just had a bit of a break, which you probably needed... and then. I don't know if I should confess this or not, but while I thought your Eleven fic was lovely, if you'd been anywhere near me, you'd have seen me glaring. I couldn't believe you'd do that. I really couldn't. I wondered if it was work, all these distracto things (although I completely understand the temptation to rewrite Arthur Conan Doyle!!!)
Thing is, fanfic can be a nice break - but short fanfic, or finishing of already existing WIPs to clear your brain, surely? Like those memes that were around, or a drabble - drabbles work like sharpening a pencil.
As to what to do, frame your nice piccy, and put it up where you can see it to remind you to write rubbish until you get through this block. You can edit it later. Besides, you seem incapable of writing rubbish.
Maybe it's just me, because I find myself incapble of working full time and managing to write anything properly, but I doubt even your capabilities to make a decent stab at a novel while working full time, doing whatever rl stuff needs doing, and writing long fan fic, and doing fan art.
I mean, you do seem to be a person of many talents, so maybe I'm only judging by my feeble standards, but you got me worried for a bit. You've already proved you can write anything you try in fanfic brilliantly, so don't waste those talents with us forever. (Or, if that's what you'd rather do, just say, and let's scrap the novel plan, and I'll throw bunnies at you instead. But I don't think that's what you want, is it?)
Anyway, it's never the end of the world. :lol: Just reassure me a bit here, okay. And whatever you do, don't start another long fic. ;-D If you must do fanfic, you should finish those singing Sontarans!!!