should be writing [with comm promo]

[jennickels]

That's like my motto or something.  I swear there is always something I'm "supposed" to be writing and either avoiding or not able to concentrate on.  After theme week at stargateland I'm kind of out of creative juices.  Or real motivation.  Something.  I wrote seven stories last week (very proud of that).  But now I have 2 other projects I'm supposed to work on.  I signed up for het_bigbang  doing a Jack/Sam story.  I have a tentative story idea but haven't put much real thought into it seeing as it isn't due for a few months (yes, I'm a major procrastinator and if I can write 50k words in 30 days I'm sure I can pull this off). 

I also signed up to do the sg1friendathon .  My prompt is: 164. Classic Team (& others if you wish). The world ends, but they're still fighting for another day (apocafic).  I also have a basic idea of what I want to write for this one.  The hard part for me is keeping my shippy fingers off the plot.  I might have to write a non-shippy version for the comm and then the shippy version that I know will want to be written.  I know I can do it.  I've written a few stories that have no overt ship to them (at least I don't think they are shippy).

AND coming soon... are challenges for fictionland which starts... um, today, I think.  Yeah, so I'll be busy, busy, busy writing pretty soon.  But I really do need to put some thought into the two stories I have a real deadline for.  I've really been enjoying all this creativeness I've had over the last few months.  I've learned to write in different styles (*cough* 1st person, present tense) and stretched my comfort zone.  I've also forced myself to write from prompts which I've found I don't hate so much and to write drabbles.  I still have a hard time keeping word counts down but I can now write shorter pieces and finish them and have them turn out pretty good.

All of this kind of worries my, though, with NaNo coming up in, oh... 5 months!  I'm afraid I'm going to run out of steam by November or won't be able to come up with a long story idea especially now that I'm getting better at writing the shorter pieces.  That's making me a little nervous.  I've done NaNo every year since 2005 and I won the last 3 years.  Won as in I wrote 50k+ words.  I still haven't finished last year's story which is also nagging at my conscious.  Sigh.  It's a good story, too, I'm just having trouble finishing it.

Well, I better go start writing start making dinner before the family riots.  No rest for the wicked.

Oh yeah... pimping:


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Comments

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

I'm like that with Atlantis. I don't really have a ship. I just the teamy-ness of it. And only recently got shippy with SGU (TJ/Varro and slightly Eli/Ginn).

With SG-1 I'm all about Jack and Sam.

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

I've only gotten through the first 3 seasons of Atlantis and then various episodes of the other seasons. When I watch I go back and forth likeing Sheppard with Elizabeth or Teyla. But, to me, they come off more as friends but can see how other people can see something under that. But, yeah, not a real ship.