Month Five, Day Four...

[wintergrey]

The Return of the Son of Bad Idea Bear. Sometimes I have really, really bad ideas for fic. The compulsion to write them is astounding because they are awful/unattainable/unreadable concepts. Once in a while, I pull one off, and it makes things so much worse because I did it once! Is anyone else ever visited by the Bad Idea Bear?

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Today, I...

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wrote.
8 (72.7%)

edited.
1 (9.1%)

researched.
1 (9.1%)

outlined.
1 (9.1%)

plotted.
2 (18.2%)

daydreamed.
6 (54.5%)

read about writing.
0 (0.0%)

wrote about writing.
1 (9.1%)

talked about writing.
2 (18.2%)

did none of the above, and that's okay.
1 (9.1%)

did something I might share with you in comments.
1 (9.1%)

My goals for today...

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Mean: 3.40 Median: 3 Std. Dev 1.91

laughed in my face. 1		1 (10.0%)
2		3 (30.0%)
3		2 (20.0%)
4		2 (20.0%)
5		1 (10.0%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		1 (10.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
cried for their mommy. 10		0 (0.0%)

Comments

[kayjayuu]

Before I write for the evening, I had to post this here.

Even Neil Gaiman has writing issues.

[wintergrey]

I love stuff like that. Thank you! :) I'll definitely post about that some time soon.

[roane]

I wrote a tiiiiiny bit. And have been plotting my next project with my collaborator.

I dunno, my ideas seem weird until I start working on them. The collaboration is a Sherlock/Criminal Minds crossover, which a friend suggested to my beta and I as a joke. But we went, "Heeeeeeey," and now have this enormous story plotted. :) We'll see how it works.

[wintergrey]

Sherlock/CM makes a lot of sense, esp. as Sherlock would ping so hard as a suspect. I hope to works out for you because I'd love to see that. I was just thinking of what I'd cross with Sherlock and I beared myself (as opposed to bunnied) SO HARD, holy schisse. I need to go lie down for a moment because it would be epic, though I'm sure it's been done. Ugh.

(Also, I think I might be able to pull off Sherlock/Bladerunner. See? See what happens to me?)

[kayjayuu]

Finally, I cranked out some words. Not good words, but words. About 800 of them.

I spent some time listening to music that I've associated with the story I'm working on, Faith. I also perused screen caps of my two characters to get my brain and heart on the same page. I apparently have no trouble "getting in the mood" and hearing their voices when I'm at work, but put me in a quiet room and I have to work at it, lol.

Then I put on an appropriate Pandora channel, started a timer for 45 minutes, closed my eyes and typed. I didn't worry about what I was writing, for the most part, I simply wanted to do.

I'll probably end up dropping the majority of it -- I'm pretty sure the scene starts closer to where I stopped for the night -- but it's there.

So yay!

I also had a Bad Idea Bear earlier today. Who knows if it'll rear its head again.

[lullabymoon]

I did a little housekeeping with my notebook and typed a few things up. Nothing too strenuous but it was something I needed to do and had been putting off.

I can't say I've ever been visited by Bad Idea Bear. I mean I might have the ideas but generally speaking they are content to live in my head.

[bay_alexison]

Late, but eh. Yesterday I was able to write another scene for one of the other help auction fics and then did a last minute beta work for a friend's story.

I tend to have Bad Ideas, but most of the time I don't go with them. :P There are some ideas that are actually Bad Ideas after I post the story. Yup! :x