Obligatory writers-block griping

[krait]

Argh, why am I blocked so hard on the Dave/Sollux thing!?

It's not like I hate it; I just can't seem to make myself open it, never mind read it over and start typing. It's not that I don't know where it's going; there are three possible endings (fairly minor variations) worked out in my head, and I've known them for a while. It's not that I don't want it finished, because frankly it would make my week to finish the thing, and might even make my whole month! It's not even that I've lost interest, because I think about it every day, and every time I visit the kinkmeme I wish I could finish and post the thing!

All I can say is argh.

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[soc_puppet]

:((( Would something like Write Or Die or Written Kitten help? Or hugs? I can do hugs. (No hugs is a perfectly acceptable answer, BTW.)

That's always a good pick-me-up :)

Alas :( Someday, someone will perfect a drug that motivates people to write. Sadly, that day is not today.

[krait]

Maybe I'll try Write or Die. If I can get it to work. (Written Kitten doesn't appear to work for me! I filled the box with 124 words, and nothing happened, even after I set NoScript to allow the page... Bah.)

What I really need is a program called "Open MS Word Or Die". :D It's making myself start that seems to be the hardest!

(On the other hand, the ridiculous Dave/Tavros Weird Alien Puberty Sickfic and the snippet informally known as "Oral Traditions"? Both of them keep sucking me in and the words just pour out! Stupid sickfic thing has gained, like, a hundred subplots that now need to either be ruthlessly sacrificed or else somehow linked up to the initial portion...

Man, linking stuff is where I fall down, every time. It's the issue in the Dave/Sollux -- I have a third of it with the problem being discovered, and I know how it may end, I just can't muster the force of will to write the connection between those!)

[ursula]

Two tricks I'd recommend here:

1) "Just for five minutes": promise yourself that you will close your browser/email and open Word for five minutes by the clock. Set a timer if you have to.

2) Write the ending now. You're excited about it, and writing it may show you which intermediate events are necessary and which seem arduous because they're filler.

[krait]

Thank you!

I'm definitely going to try to write the ending(s) -- that's a thing I do almost all the time, such that I'm actually a little surprised I haven't on this fic. (Maybe because there are three potential endings?) Hopefully it'll at least give me something to steer for! :D

I will have to wait on the "five minutes" till my day off, but I'll try that, too. (Maybe ten minutes?)

So much depends on Other People's Schedules when you don't live alone; it's frustrating! (I could have worked on it tonight, except as I was driving home from work my mother called to tell me we were going out to eat somewhere. So there's two hours sucked into the aether with nothing to show for it except a full stomach...)