Cheese and Whine

[lokifan]

I’ve resisted posting about this, partly because my internet access has been extremely sporadic (I went home for two weeks for Easter) and partly because I knew it would be a post of full... well, cheese and whine. You see, I have writer's block.

I hate writer’s block. It’s worse just now because I’m revising for my exams. I keep opening my laptop to make notes on Russian formalism – no, the revision isn’t going that well – and when I have my laptop open and I’m working on documents, it’s completely ingrained for me to open a current WIP or two, and work on them. And I just can’t. And even when I try, and get all ‘I shall push through the block’, the ideas just “go small and stupid and won’t go anywhere”, to quote Quentin Sykes. And my metaphors have dried up.

I’m hoping the block will lift soon: I haven’t had it for a year, and I tend to get it due to stress. Being at home is very stressful for me, and it was worse than usual this time – my mother and sisters being demons, and the wireless being crap, and the looming spectre of exams between them made me a bit crazy. And since the last time I had writer’s block it was towards the end of my A Level exams and went away after about a week, four days after my last exam, I do have hope.

So, hopefully I’ll write soon. I can at least get a long-finished fic beta-read now I have wireless again. But either way, I thought I should say hello.

Comments

[maja-li.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear being home is so stressful, hon. :( Good for you to try to push through it! What you're saying about it being from stress makes a lot of sense to me. So, I'm sure the muse will be back soon!

*snuggles*

[lokifan]

Thanks for the snuggles and kind words! I just found this comment again and wanted to let you know I appreciated it at the time, too. :)

[drippingcherry.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Hope everything gets better for you...

[lokifan]

D'aww! Thanks for the hug and the iconlove - I just found this comment again! *hugs you*

[morettaallstar.livejournal.com]

*huggles*

Cos no one should be sad. And cos writer's block is bloody awful.

[lokifan]

Just found this comment, and wanted to say thanks for the hugs. :)

[nuclearsugars.livejournal.com]

TEH EVIL WRITER'S BLOCK STRIKES AGAIN! Here's hoping it doesn't affect you too much. ♥

[lokifan]

It didn't in the end. :) Just found this comment and I wanted to say thanks. I LOVE LITTLE HEARTS ridiculously much.

[kuri-taichou.livejournal.com]

Good luck! I've missed your updates. Maybe once I get a chance to write my Angel/Spike fic will inspire you...

[lokifan]

Just found this comment, and wanted to say thanks for the luck. :)