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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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