Writing, figure skating, and the winter thaw.

[icarus]

After all the excellent writing advice you guys offered I started first reading fanfiction. I discovered that I was critical of all writing at the moment, even stories that I love.

That took a lot of pressure off, convincing me that this is all in my mind.

I went to the figure skating performance (the Nationals are still coming up) and got a scent of something... indefinable... about a skating performance. I limped along trying to describe the experience to amothea in chat and came up empty.

In response the many suggestions to just write, I began carrying my writing notebook again. I'd stopped, to my surprise, and discovered this fact when I was at the figure skating competition intermission, wanted to write some more to Out Of Bounds -- and found no notebook. For the first time since 2003. I scribbled a little on the back of an envelope, and filled a page of notes this morning. I'm keeping it loose, as yin_again offered, letting the blanks be blanks.

The music yesterday helped spark a (very silly) scene, and I feel myself thawing -- especially since Sunday's skating event.

Yeah. I think this is going to work. I'm letting myself skip ahead on the story.

Guys, thank you for help giving me my stories back.

Comments

[mad_maudlin]

Just to let you know, I am trying to send you some Preservation Hall stuff, but me and WinZip and Gmail are not exactly communicating well right now. I'm gonna try again tomorrow night to get the files down to a reasonable size--there are a bunch of songs I want to send you!

And I, for one, am stoked that you're getting the mojo back. I went to your site the other night and read (or re-read) all your SGA fic, including Out of Bounds, so I'm quite excited at the prospect of more. :-)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Whenever you have time. Hmm. Do you need a yahoo email address instead? Because if gmail's causing problems, I'm also at icarus_ancalion@yahoo.com.

I went to your site the other night and read (or re-read) all your SGA fic, including Out of Bounds, so I'm quite excited at the prospect of more. :-)

*blinks* That's a bit of reading.

Icarus