Would using Written:Kitten! help for motivation?
What on earth is that?
Wash: Well, I wash my hands of it. It's a hopeless case. I'll read a nice poem at the funeral. Something with imagery. Zoe: You could lock the door and keep the power-hungry maniac at bay. Wash: Oh, no, I'm starting to like this poetry idea now. Here lies my beloved Zoe, my autumn flower, somewhat less attractive now she's all corpsified and gross...
'Shindig'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Sean K - Feb 22, 2012 7:27:53 pm PST #8203 of 30001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Atropa - Feb 22, 2012 7:29:47 pm PST #8204 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Written? Kitten! Every "x" amount of words you input, you get a new kitten picture. It's silly, but sometimes it does get me to keep writing when I hate everything.
§ ita § - Feb 22, 2012 7:31:44 pm PST #8205 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Where's Written? Hottie! I could do with that. I mean, I have nothing to write, but I could start.
Strix - Feb 22, 2012 7:35:57 pm PST #8206 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I still thinking semi-seriously of opening a Writing Dominatrix Muse service.
"Hands on the keyboard! SNAP! Don't edit -- just type, dammit. Oh, you like that, do you? Harder! Faster! Less adverbs! DO IT!"
I keep eyeballing Scrivener. Hmm.
bonny, bitching at people is pretty easy. Tact is (just not saying true stuff) hard.
amych - Feb 22, 2012 7:37:00 pm PST #8207 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Written?Kitten! is open-source; should be a simple enough matter to throw in some other photo feed...
meara - Feb 22, 2012 7:37:55 pm PST #8208 of 30001
Harder! Faster! Less adverbs! DO IT!"
...fewer!
Atropa - Feb 22, 2012 7:39:32 pm PST #8209 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Less adverbs!
Noooooo! I love my adverbs!
Okay, here's the deal I just made with myself. Tomorrow I record TWO shows. Tonight, I finish writing the notes for them. Part of this is due to stage fright, part of this is due to still feeling like crap, and I know that will affect my performance.
(If I show up in thread tomorrow, everyone feel free to poke me about doing the recording.)
Sean K - Feb 22, 2012 7:40:42 pm PST #8210 of 30001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Truth be told, I'm having a very frustrating block. I've been writing and rewriting the same first paragraph on this novel for five months now. I have this paragraph, one other scene, and a one sentence log line of the story. But I can't get past this paragraph. I don't know what comes next. I don't really know the full shape of the story.
Then today I come up with the opening paragraph of a new story, but beyond this paragraph, I have no idea what happens next.
It's like I keep having these "In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit," moments, but I can't get the rest to come.
With the first story, I try to write an outline, but that just ends up with me staring at a new blank document until I get tired of it and close it. I've been writing other things, like these monologues, but now I want to get back to these other story ideas.
beekaytee - Feb 22, 2012 7:47:19 pm PST #8211 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Speaking of writing, Erin, I'm sending you a ton of raw material in a few minutes.
Atropa - Feb 22, 2012 7:48:43 pm PST #8212 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Sean, one thing that I do when I get that stuck (and Amy was the one who suggested this, so a HUGE thank-you to her) is to write story summaries like they're chapter descriptions for a penny dreadful serial or the dialog cards for a silent movie.