will flirt for cheese

[kaizoku]

Totally random question: Who still uses one of the old Livejournal site schemes? I still use XColibur. How many years has it been since they changed it? I will probably never change.

Not-so-random question: People who write (fanfic), how do you write? Do you just get the urge and DO IT? Or do you schedule yourself writing time? Or do you sometimes just start writing and not stop except to eat, sleep and piss? Or do you get all excited about writing and then procrastinate and feed the internet instead?

Subject line refers to girl!cat. She is adorable and currently curled up in my lap. PREVENTING ME FROM TYPING FIC. But that is okay.

Comments

[kaizoku.livejournal.com]

But see, I think of you as one of those people who writes a lot. So you must get the urge a lot! But IA, pressuring yourself to write fic always seems lame.

I don't feel the need to communicate my stories--they're more for me than anyone else.

I wish this was true for me, seriously. But if they're just for me, then I don't go to the effort of actually writing them down. I can just watch it in my head (even though it's not really the same.) Mostly I wish someone else would write my stories for me... the way I want them written.

[kick-flaw.livejournal.com]

Haaah, I do write a lot, actually. Not so much at the moment, most of my attention being diverted to school, but. Usually. I just---I guess, for me, writing the stories down is the challenge. There are stories I have in my head, absolutely trope-filled and horribly cliche, that I just love (like the one where Merlin is the son of a God who comes to Camelot to claim him, uhhhh) and the ones that are more...write-worthy? Do you know what I mean? I won't put the words down for a fic that I don't think deserves it.

Mostly I wish someone else would write my stories for me... the way I want them written.

GOD, do I feel you, hell. If I could get out of writing totally--well, I lie, I wouldn't, but I do wish that some of my more epic ideas would be done by someone with more talent and determination (like the AU one where Merlin is a celebrity magician and Arthur is the son of Merlin's ex-agent) than I. I just can't do them well enough. //sigh

The long and short of it is: fic = urge, not priority. Real life is more important, yeah?