The rose goes in the front, big guy....

Teppy, may I say how much I adore the idea of a "really really bad drabble" challenge?

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I'm drawing a complete blank on what to attempt. Y'all have probably noticed I don't do the drabbles unless they suggest to me something from the wip or one of the embryonic novels. I definitely get tunnel vision.

Susan, why don't you just go back through some of Teppy's challenges in this thread?

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Turn up missing sounds to me like the resolution came before the conflict. I think I would say went missing, though I would most often say, is missing.

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Like the lava lizards of the Galapagos Islands!

Bull Durham.

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"Turns up", to me, indicates "found", not "lost".

You know, I'd been wondering about doing a Cliche drabble for the cliche of "You can't always get what you want."

But no matter how I look at it, the drabble is always going to be "Well, no SHIT, Sherlock!", written out twenty five times.

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Write a description of Annabel having breakfast, with lots of detail--what the room looks like, what you are thinking about, what she says, how you feel about her--something she might like to have when she is older to get an idea what she was like and the world was like.

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Like the lava lizards of the Galapagos Islands!

Exactly!

And he knows me well. If you can't get through to me any other way, make a sports metaphor.

Susan, he's talking good basic common sense.

I know. I just like my tunnel vision. Nothing else in the world is half as interesting to me in this stage of the process than the wip, y'know?

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I've heard people say that here, "turned up missing" but come to think of it they were probably Southern transplants, at that.

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I should spend 15-30 minutes every day on something else

Such a good idea. Your husband is wise. Write something contemporary in first person. Write fantasy. Write some drabbles, as Cindy wisely suggested. Anything to exercise the muscle differently.

Teppy, may I say how much I adore the idea of a "really really bad drabble" challenge?

Me, too! Oh yes. A lot of fun to be had there.

the drabble is always going to be "Well, no SHIT, Sherlock!", written out twenty five times

Heh.

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Nothing else in the world is half as interesting to me in this stage of the process than the wip, y'know?

Yep. But the thing is, if you get bogged down, you're going to have to take the blinders off and look at the wide world to unclog the circuitry.

I should go write something. I posted a locked livejournal entry, an open letter to my editor that, of course, is not meant to be sent, just venting on how damned long this is taking and how much I dislike dangling in limbo. I then had to reassure my agent that, no, it really was just a vent. Reality being what it is, my editor is 86 years old, and has one good competent assistant, and is publisher of her own imprint with two hundred plus titles a year.

But I'm feeling as if I'm writing into a void right now.

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Teppy, may I say how much I adore the idea of a "really really bad drabble" challenge?

Me, too! Oh yes. A lot of fun to be had there.

Well, that may have to be next, then....

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