Someone tell me to not feel guilty for only writing three words in the story I'm working on yesterday, because I did write about 3000 of the one I did as a pinch hitter.

Three words were crafted from the universe that were not crafted before. Always a good thing.

Hm, my muse is feeling pedantic.

Three words is three more than I did yesterday, and pinch hitting is always good for the karma and/or soul.

Don't feel bad. It's the 17th ---the 17th!!--for god's sake and I don't even have a freaking first draft for my flashfic.

Although I finally thought up a way to start it at lunch. Not that I wrote it down, so hopefully I can remember it. Or I'll write it up in email and send it to myself.

Having problems, askye?

It's not that I'm idea blocked, because I have the idea. The idea rocks. I have the whole thing (well, I wasn't sure how to start it) all written out in summary format.

Now trying to write it, I seem to have forgotten how to write. I looks like, not even passive sentences but lots of

"The door opened and then....""She walked up to him and said...."

I mean, it's all telling what's happening there's no STORY. I go and try and read and figure out "okay, you read fanfic, how do other people do it" and I look at and go "i don't know..."

Except now I have more of a beginning, and there's an actual story with description and emotions. Before I was just describing. So X goes and then Y does this and I couldn't get the motivations because...well...there were none.

I'm not idea blocked, I've just forgotten how to transform an idea into a story.

That's why I can't write anything until I start hearing the characters talk to each other and can see them moving around in my head.

Connie--that's about the only thing that is working for me, the actual dialouge between the two characters. The problem is trying to find the voice of the piece, I know what pov I want to use and which character is the main one but I can't figure out how to describe anything or how get Character B to Character A.

And then I did and now when I go to write it I'm back to "there was a knock at the door" , I had the introspection I needed before the knock, which will tie up with the ending perfectly.

I'm not idea blocked, I've just forgotten how to transform an idea into a story.

Hum. They're just going through the motions, huh?

Have you tried writing them into a musical?

Okay, so that probably won't help much. Visulizing them? Telling it from a different POV? Starting at the end and telling it in flashbacks?

Askye, when I'm in that situation, I write the crap telling-not-showing, then go back and rewrite it.