FRIDAY!

[jadesfire]

So, yesterday was An Bad Day. Today is shaping up a little better, which is ironic considering I got 2 hours less sleep and can't sit comfortably on my work chair. Both my lower back and my hip are hurting, and every time I adjust for one, it sets off the other. Note to self: hot bath tonight, but be careful not to poach yourself again.

Otherwise, my life is exceedingly dull and I kind of like it that way. I'm up to date on my work, a supplier is taking me, my boss and a colleague out to lunch today, it's sunny and I have another free weekend. My three current projects are only a few hours away from completion each, which means they now look like I've actually *made* something, and I've got pretty things coming from eBay to make more.

I've spent a fair amount of time this week a)moping and b)convincing myself that I'll never write anything decent again. Then I got a few comments on my stories, and egoist that I am, I went back and read them. Sometimes reading what I consider to be my best stories just depresses me, but this time, reading 3 of them in quick succession, I managed to figure out what made them successful, which in turn told me why I hated the way I was writing what I'm working on right now. Combined with some inspiration from fan_eunice, I just opened up a Googledoc and started writing. 1000 words (in half an hour - go me \o/) later, I'm still happy with the story and am pretty convinced it's going to be worth the writing. Most encouragingly, I have no impulse to show it to anyone until its done. I'm learning that if I need reassurance before the end, then I'm not happy with it. My Googledocs account is littered with failed drafts which prove this. If I have to ask, then it's not good enough. It may read okay, but it's not going anywhere, and best just to abandon it and try something else. Hopefully, this one will stick!

Hope everyone has a more comfortable day that mine is going to be! Everyone got exciting plans for the weekend?

Comments

[perspi]

You know what, though? I wouldn't call our draft on Googledocs failed! Because there's awesome in there. I honestly think we both got 'ooooh-shiny'-ed into other things, and we just haven't finished it. :)

Anyway: I am about to go administer some make-up exams, so. I hope you have a good weekend!

[jadesfire]

Oh, absolutely! Butterfly brains are definitely not the same as some of the random scraps that I pretended were going to work ;)

Have a good day *waves*

[perspi]

*waves back*

I'm having a pretty acceptable day so far. I graded a terrible paper, and made up for it by now grading a very well-written paper.

And I actually opened the knitting fic, and did a little tinkering. I may do a little more, now that I'm eating some lunch...

[rhianona]

Sorry to hear about your back. I hope it gets better.

I hear you about writing. I've been pushing to get a TW fic out and I don't love it but someone bought it and I need to finish it. And it's taught me a lot about my writing and what I feel about TW, which is good, since I'm supposed to work on my TARDIS big bang as well and have been sort of dreading it since it will mark the third time I'm trying to write this particular fic. And I've realized that I've been doing that a lot lately, that is starting something and then pushing it away for a while b/c it's not coming along. At any rate, I'm always fascinated to hear how different people use different writing techniques and what works and what doesn't.

[jadesfire]

Thanks :) I'm seeing the chiropractor on Tuesday, which will kill or cure, I think.

Oh, I know *exactly* what you mean. It's like there's story there somewhere, you just can't quite get it to come into focus. For me, I have to come at it from a totally different angle - start the story halfway through, change the pov, change the macguffin (I write to character points rather than plot, which pesky, but trying anything just dies in flames) or shift location. Anything that lets me tell the same thing in a new way.

Hope you find a way into these stories that works for you :)