! Would you like to see the fifty LJ icons I made this week instead of writing my poem for my workshop?
My pantry full of marmalade? My crazy-quilt pillow top? Helllooooo to the avoidance.
Gunn: Well, how horrible is this thing? Lorne: I haven't read the Book of Revelations lately, but if I was searching for adjectives, I'd probably start there.
'Hell Bound'
The Great Write Way
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Betsy HP - Mar 02, 2003 4:44:47 pm PST #640 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Susan W. - Mar 02, 2003 4:45:00 pm PST #641 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Oh, my inner softy isn't going anywhere quick. The novel-in-process is a romance, and not a particularly angsty one as such things go. And I haven't plotted it all out yet, but I'm pretty sure my fantasy's heroine will live to find redemption, forgive herself, and make her world a more peaceful and just place. I'm all about the happy ending, 99% of the time. The WWJD is to keep me from writing happy little stories about nice people who are always nice to each other.
Betsy HP - Mar 02, 2003 4:45:25 pm PST #642 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
It worked. That's the bottom line. I wrote out the first draft of the scene, then I typed it, and all of a sudden the magic was with me.
Sssh. Don't let out the purple smoke.
DavidS - Mar 02, 2003 4:45:48 pm PST #643 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My pantry full of marmalade?
Yeah, but that's blood orange mamalade - a thing of beauty and wonder.
P.M. Marc - Mar 02, 2003 5:00:16 pm PST #644 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I keep most of my hand-written drafts. I'm not sure what to do about the one I wrote on a muddied Nordstroms bag, however.
John H - Mar 02, 2003 5:16:25 pm PST #645 of 10001
we had Willow deliberately mind-wipe Tara. Xander left Anya at the altar. Giles went through with the Cruciamentum. Wesley chose not to tell anyone of the prophecy about Connor. Angel locked Darla and Dru in the cellar with the lawyers and a bunch of innocent waitstaff whose mommies were waiting at home for them. Faith tried to frame Buffy for murder. Buffy ran away at the end of S2 without telling a soul
It's all about the betrayal.
John H - Mar 02, 2003 5:17:25 pm PST #646 of 10001
And did people think I was talking about deleting the first draft without keeping a printout? Of course you'd never do that. But yeah, Extreme Writing. I admired her courage.
erikaj - Mar 02, 2003 5:20:08 pm PST #647 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
yeah, that's brave.
jengod - Mar 02, 2003 7:05:02 pm PST #648 of 10001
My carpet is vacuumed. Bed made. Laundry laundered. Dog brushed.
Hello to the avoidance.
That said, I have pages! I have fucking pages! (Sorry, I'm very profane today.)
deborah grabien - Mar 02, 2003 7:34:17 pm PST #649 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
No avoidance, except in a damned good cause. I don't remember which thread I was in where we were talking about Roz Kaveny, but I've just got a wonderful email, with an attachment of something she's working on....
lalalala, me to read instead of write for ten minutes.
Seriously, I don't avoid. If I don't feel like writing, then there's a damned good chance that anything I'd produce if I pushed would suck salmon anyway. But I don't avoid. Haven't felt the need.