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New policy:
Start writing fic at midnight on Fridays, and don't sleep until you've finished. That way, by the time you're done, you'll be so loopy from sleep deprivation that you'll be a) unable to properly distinguish quality and b)45% less picky.
This, hopefully, will give you the opportunity to actually write, and be happy with what you're writing, rather than handwringing, nitpicking, and staring at the screen ad infinitum. You'll be able to settle on a phrase without instantly deleting it because you think it's cheesy/boring/simple/doesn't have enough figurative language and SRS META packed in it.
The trick, of course, is that you must then finish and post it while still in this addled state, because if you sleep on it, everything you wrote while in Hey This Sounds Kinda Good mode will look really stupid.
This message brought to you by Dammit, I Was Almost Finished This Time, Too. *deletes deletes deletes*
In other news, you may have noticed that I deleted my Fics To Write list. It was handy for keeping track of miscellaneous plotbunnies, thus giving me something to reach for if I was ever blocked on all the fic I was supposed to be working on, but I found that if I put an actual fic-in-progress up there (and thus, in my brain's whacked-out logic, making it an obligation) I lost the drive to work on it. And we can't have that.
I may still put up a Plotbunny Hutch or something as a dumping ground for various ideas, though it'll probably be a private entry. In the meanwhile, if you really want to know what I'm writing, just hang around the journal for a bit. I'll inevitably whine about it at some point.
Final, Less-Whiny Point: The commentary track for The Invasion ranks very highly on the list of Best Things Since Pie. If you have the Invasion DVD, make sure to check it out, if for no other reason than that you get to hear Wendy Padbury, Frazer Hines, and Nicholas Courtney comment on what their animated selves look like ("I think my moustache is thicker here than it was in the other episodes." "I've got very large eyes, haven't I?").
Now to get some actual work done.
Start writing fic at midnight on Fridays, and don't sleep until you've finished. That way, by the time you're done, you'll be so loopy from sleep deprivation that you'll be a) unable to properly distinguish quality and b)45% less picky.
This, hopefully, will give you the opportunity to actually write, and be happy with what you're writing, rather than handwringing, nitpicking, and staring at the screen ad infinitum. You'll be able to settle on a phrase without instantly deleting it because you think it's cheesy/boring/simple/doesn't have enough figurative language and SRS META packed in it.
The trick, of course, is that you must then finish and post it while still in this addled state, because if you sleep on it, everything you wrote while in Hey This Sounds Kinda Good mode will look really stupid.
This message brought to you by Dammit, I Was Almost Finished This Time, Too. *deletes deletes deletes*
In other news, you may have noticed that I deleted my Fics To Write list. It was handy for keeping track of miscellaneous plotbunnies, thus giving me something to reach for if I was ever blocked on all the fic I was supposed to be working on, but I found that if I put an actual fic-in-progress up there (and thus, in my brain's whacked-out logic, making it an obligation) I lost the drive to work on it. And we can't have that.
I may still put up a Plotbunny Hutch or something as a dumping ground for various ideas, though it'll probably be a private entry. In the meanwhile, if you really want to know what I'm writing, just hang around the journal for a bit. I'll inevitably whine about it at some point.
Final, Less-Whiny Point: The commentary track for The Invasion ranks very highly on the list of Best Things Since Pie. If you have the Invasion DVD, make sure to check it out, if for no other reason than that you get to hear Wendy Padbury, Frazer Hines, and Nicholas Courtney comment on what their animated selves look like ("I think my moustache is thicker here than it was in the other episodes." "I've got very large eyes, haven't I?").
Now to get some actual work done.
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Still, she sounds like a Padders. From what recent photos I'd seen, she's still very, very adorable.
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Those three should be forced to do audio commentaries for every Who story in existance. :P
You should also hear the commentary track for The Two Doctors, by the way. Jacqueline Pearce's constant repetition of the word "darling" can get grating at times, but Frazer Hines and Colin Baker become a menace when they're together in the same room. :P
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Yes! Even for the ones they weren't in. Especially the ones they weren't in, because by default those stories need moar of them. :D
I haven't got The Two Doctors on DVD, but I'll see what Blockbuster can do for me, because omg Frazer and Colin Baker? I cannot even imagine. It would be madness, and I want to hear it.
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I can only imagine them discussing the Green Death condom maggots.
I haven't got The Two Doctors on DVD, but I'll see what Blockbuster can do for me, because omg Frazer and Colin Baker? I cannot even imagine. It would be madness, and I want to hear it.
It is madness, and it has to be heard to be believed.
Incidentally, another great commentary team is that of Peter Davison and Janet Fielding in Resurrection of the Daleks. I think I will now burst out laughing whenever Turlough is onscreen because of them. *shakes head* Also, whenever Janet had trouble remembering some detail about the filming, Peter would very evilly get closer to the microphone and whisper "SHE'S AUSTRALIAN."
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Ooooh! Ooh ooh ooh I have that one. My schedule for the night, she is made.
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Peter should be added to the Fraze/Nick/Padders commenting team, no?
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In a related note, I think you should begin keeping a glossary of writing terms as, like so many others, this new one of "Plotbunny Hutch" amuses me greatly with both its mental imagery and its surprising accuracy of description.
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