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Oh, that chilli recipe sounds *outstanding*. I am totally going to try it out this weekend.

I'm sorry you're feeling blue.
*massive hugs*

A couple of things that really help me when I can't write:
1. When the issue is that I can't write something that I already have a clear idea for (i.e., the issue is not the idea but the execution of the idea): I write about what I'd like to be writing about. It really helps! Instead of trying to form sentences in just the right way or trying to hit the exact tone or getting the dialogue to flow in exactly the right direction, I freeform about the generalities. Why do I want to write this scene/story? What would I like to see? What are some elements that I'd like to include? What would I like to see happen to the characters at the end? That kind of stuff.

2. When the issue is that I can't think of anything interesting that I'd like to write: I start writing things that don't have anything to do with anything, that have nothing to do with themes or metaphors or revelations. Just the mundanities that are interesting to *me*, that no one will ever see. I start writing about why strawberry jam is Connor's favorite jam or start listing all the toys that he missed out on by growing up in Quortoth, or I have two characters go couch shopping. Silly things that make me happy.

For me, it's all about breaking past feeling like I'm pressured to write a certain way or a certain story, and doing these things helps me to write for writing's sake and it gets the creative juices flowing. So to speak.

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Oh, thanks Ros! I think you're on to something with the whole "feeling like I'm pressured to write a certain way" which is silly, because no one is the boss of me. Hee hee.

I'm definitely stuck in the execution portion - it's all very clear in my head what I want, and what the story is.

And if you ever wrote Connor experiencing a Sit-n-Spin for the first time, I would TOTALLY read that. :) I'm very much the kind of person that likes to talk about the writing process, and I've not done that at all with this particular fic for fear of conforming to other's wants or something, I'm not sure.

This helps me a bunch, thanks again. :*

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"The Destroyer wants you to read The Roly Poly Puppy to him just ONE MORE TIME."

Talking with someone about the story you want to write is awesome, too! I love doing that -- there's nothing like getting excited about something you want to write, with someone who is just as excited about it. Another thing I like to do is send someone snippets of something as I'm writing it, and that someone knows that it's their job to say, "OMG GOOD JOB!" and only say good things. This isn't the beta stage, it's the formulation stage, and I'm trying to *not* self-edit. Getting that boost of encouragement along the way really helps me. (These same people rip my stories apart in the beta stage, which is also something I really enjoy. Heh.)

It's so hard, but do *not* let other people's work or perspective or whatever it is, keep you from writing what you want to write. This is what I tell myself: "I am the number one writer of fic by me. No one else can write the fic I write better than I can."

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AHAHAHAHA. The Destroyer wants to know if there really IS a monster at the end of this book, so he can slay it and wear its entrails for a trophy.

Heeeee - I TOTALLY do the "give me praise!" snippet send, but for whatever reason, I've not done anything with this one fic. (This is the boarding school AU RPS with Vincent Kartheiser and William Mosely, by the way.) Like... I'm freaked about writing them AU. Which is just weird of me. And like you, I looooooove getting a hard beta. I want it to come back crippled and weak.

*salutes* Are you sure you're not secretly a cheerleader? This is really getting my brain in a good spot.

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Hahahahahaha. Super sekrit: I used to be a cheerleader. No joke.

Boarding school! VK! Willaim Mosely! (Uh. He's the kid from Narnia, yes?). I think that sounds fantastic!

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ZOMG, yer sekret is safe with me!

Yes - the full-lipped kid from Narnia. You can blame/thank Kita. Heh.

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Yes, well isn't that true about most things? :)

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OH MY DEAR SWEET BABY JESUS IN THE MANGER. YOUR ICON!!!!

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He practically is a baby in this icon! Seriously, I should be locked up.

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Then so should I because I almost bit my knuckle when I saw it. Oh, VK. How are you so perfect?

Ros, you have BROKEN BREAD with this creature!! *boggles*

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(This is the boarding school AU RPS with Vincent Kartheiser and William Mosely, by the way.)

I am cheering for you RIGHT NOW.

But privately. In my bunk.

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hahahaha - and I have, like, ACTUAL Oxfordians guiding me on the British public school system and the inherent gayness of it, so it will be as FACTUAL as I can get an AU RPS. Hahaha.

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And they're gonna wear *uniforms* and their shirts will be pulled out and their ties will be *loosened* and their lips will be so *red* and their cheeks all ruddy in the cold as they do those british sporty things. Or something. Omg, Stoney.

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OH MY GOD, did you peek??????

*points to icon made expressly for this as-yet-finished/posted fic*

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The loosened ties have been in my head ever since you first mentioned you were doing this fic. Their necks, Stoney, 'cause the first button is undone, too.

OMG icon! So cool! It makes me think of SPN, though.

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NECKS. COLLAR BONES. Shoulder blades. These are what make me ungh in the night.

And I know, I know, I don't watch SPN, so I didn't think! HOWEVER: there are very few elite boarding school in the UK, and Win:Coll is where both Alexis Denisoff and joss Whedon went to school. Ahem.

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