Maybe try something different? Write what means the most to you, instead of writing for a market, or write something you always told yourself you couldn't. Sometimes you just need to break out of a rut.
Mal: You want to tell me how come there's a statue of you here looking at me like I owe him something? Jayne: Wishing I could, Captain.
'Jaynestown'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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Amy - Feb 11, 2014 12:27:37 pm PST #5919 of 6693
Because books.
erikaj - Feb 11, 2014 12:39:25 pm PST #5920 of 6693
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't know. It probably doesn't help that my life has barely two parts: writer/indigent(and not really the gritty Carver kind. I'm too weird to write normal things and yet? Not strange enough to get locked up and make "outsider art")ETA: Which I mention not to incite pity, but because it makes rejection extra crushing when there's not some part of your life where you're really satisfied to point to.
erikaj - Feb 11, 2014 12:40:30 pm PST #5921 of 6693
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, okay, maybe I'm strange enough and haven't got caught yet.
Polter-Cow - Feb 11, 2014 2:44:41 pm PST #5922 of 6693
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Awesome, Sox!!
Ha, that sounds like awesomesauce. Awesome, Sox, you're awesomesauce.
erikaj - Feb 14, 2014 9:16:56 am PST #5923 of 6693
Always Anti-fascist!
Here's an attempt at one of the prompts...I don't write romantic things often. Maybe it's the date today.
A middle-aged woman(although she would probably never call herself that, she knows she is. Probably, if not as ready for support hose as that phrase makes her feel) and a young man, arm in arm, step into the hotel suite they got for their anniversary. “Can you believe it’s been a whole year already?”
He nods, looking as proud and happy as she feels, but she likes it that he doesn’t jabber to fill the silence. All this joy from a relentless best friend playing with the age range on a dating site.
-t - Feb 21, 2014 3:04:35 pm PST #5924 of 6693
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Who has two thumbs and a copy of April's Azimov's on her kindle?
hippocampus - Feb 21, 2014 3:37:31 pm PST #5925 of 6693
not your mom's socks.
Who has two thumbs and a copy of April's Azimov's on her kindle?
Kermit flail.
-t how'd you make me allergy from all the way across the country.
-t - Feb 21, 2014 4:04:46 pm PST #5926 of 6693
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm a powerful irritant with a long range, I guess.
Excellent story, Sox. As I expected.
hippocampus - Feb 21, 2014 4:09:19 pm PST #5927 of 6693
not your mom's socks.
Excellent story, Sox. As I expected.
You are the first person to say this to me. I didn't realize I'd been holding my breath.
Thank you so much for that.
Amy - Feb 22, 2014 7:31:31 am PST #5928 of 6693
Because books.