Rumours of my demise have been somewhat exaggerated

[icarus]

As I was telling melpemone, I'm not done writing HP. I'm just in a burned out phase, and it feels like a deeper sort of burn out then the last three. (Or four?) The stories coming to mind don't have a lot of meat to them. I don't wanna write crap just to keep writing HP.

I mean, I don't have to write well, that's something for the 10th draft, but there has to be something compelling at the core of each story. It's not there right now, not in HP stories.

It could be I'm just tired, or it could be that I need more canon to chew. But that 'core' feeling, like I have something to say, it's there in SG-1.

Perhaps I'll need to do the occasional HP story, but wait for new HP canon. Or maybe I just need to give myself time to recover, read a while.

Or perhaps something will grab me next week, I dunno. But right now, it's not there. It's not writer's block - that's different. There you feel the story, but it's constipated, stuck. This more like I'm... dry.

Comments

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you need to recharge your HP-writing battery. It's a hazard of this time of year, I think, when it's all about darkness and lying fallow till the spring.

But renewal will come eventually, I do believe. So hang in there.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you need to recharge your HP-writing battery.

Well-phrased. Yes, that's exactly how I feel. This quarter has been really... every week I've been just barely above water. Just barely.

Speed-reading has saved me.

Icarus