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Okay, so I know this is primarily a writing journal, or is at least supposed to be. The problem is that I have been suffering writer’s block for longer than I’ve had in a very long time. I get ideas and I can get some of the shorter ones out but if I have to take a break at all, I completely lose the plot and can’t quite get back to it. I’m at the point I’m having problems even editing the short ones right now.

Stories pending at this time:
* “A Tragic Tale of Deforestation (and sex)”

team_sga May Day Fest Fic – needs some work.
* “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”

team_sga Assassins AU Fest Fic – almost done.
* “Being a Girl 101” Possible AU Fest Fic, but I have not yet officially signed up for it – a couple pages in.
* “Left Behind - Confirmation” – I’m seriously almost done with this installment, but just can’t get there at all.
* “Avalanche” – some day I will finish this one, really I will...
* “Untitled Fringe Crossover” – barely a drop in the bucket for this one – sorry

threnodyjones!

I have other as well, but these are the ones I have been somewhat actively fiddling around with lately and/or have timelines attached. Usually timelines help. Right now? Not-so-much.

Grrr. Argh. Frustration. Blech.

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Want a suggestion? Pick one and work on it every day. Period. Even if you open the file and are sick of what you're seeing, just keep adding to it. Even if you're adding crap. Give yourself a quota of N words (500? 1000?) every day. Just keep plugging away. You *will* get to the end. Then you put it aside for a week before you open it again for a rewrite.

I think my biggest problem is the time/energy ratio. Work is kicking my ass - we are swamped, completely and totally. It's to the point I'm losing one of the states I work next week to bring me down to just above everyone else instead of "Holy Crap! How Many?" level. [371 accounts for those of you counting at home.]

I get home and want to sleep or veg or do something mindless to take a break. By the end of the day, I'm lucky if I can form coherent sentences without screwing up pronunciations or having my damned stutter come out in the open. Watching tv, reading other people's fics or journals, etc, lets me reset a bit. However, it's also keeping me from getting into proper writing mindset. If I try to force it, the whole incoherency things comes into play and leaves me trying to figure out what in the world I just wrote and how it's connected to what it was supposed to be.

Maybe next week it will get better? Maybe even just the nice weather will help? Maybe a good shot of something alcoholic?

A shot could actually help a great deal. I've done that when I've been stressed and needing to get something finished. It helps turn off the internal editor as well as getting the daily crap to recede to background level.