jaclyn

I ditched my old prompts chart and created this myself and split it into three for ease on the eyes. This is based off my own HTML and this and this entry.

Pick one of these, then one of my current OR retired characters (in my profile) even if you have no clue who they are. It'd just be nice to have these assigned to do when I'm bored or should be doing other things. You can specify a certain person or pairing the ficlet should focus on, but no guarantees that it'll turn out what you had in mind. Everything I write will be posted in anidea, which is all f-locked but has open membership. Thanks!

Note: Hover over the number link for prompt name and character.

( lots of writing prompts -- pretty please! )

Mostly I'm wondering why only two days are green when I've only missed two wordcounts... Oh well. I think this updates itself, so I shouldn't have to repost. So I ditched the monthly graph because I tend to do most of my writing between 10 and 3 and that was messing up my daily counts. That and I don't want to show off how badly I've been doing. *headdesk*

I once upon a time had a writing journal I never used because it meant actually logging out and in and it was just a hassle. However, I made myself a comm because comms are awesome and I've been writing a lot lately and realized I probably ought to have one since otherwise it'll all end up in my cdj, which I plan to actually start using again instead of tweeting obsessively. Trying to balance all that out. Anyway, you lot should totally add it.

anidea

I apologize for the f-page spam you'll notice upon adding it. I transferred about eight things to it from escribirmivida and my 300 Prompts and will possibly be adding a few psl-y things to it. But after I've had my fun tonight it should probably...not happen again, actually. I'm not very good at posting things.

But yeah, add if you'd like!

Prompt: 213.. Whiskey
Requested By: Sabrina
My Character(s): Conchita Abarca
Other Character(s): Jenna Ansboro, and briefly Liam Ansboro
Pairings: Brief Chita/Liam
Fandom: Once Upon a Dream
Warnings & Ratings: PG. A bit of innuendo and talk of drinking, but it's nothing really.
Word Count: 984

( She reminded her of a much girlier, peppier version of herself. That was probably why they annoyed each other so much. )

So yesterday with spare time in English I got creative and did a little poem. It's not too great, but I like it. Well, it was about the boyfriend. I title it today even though I'd finished it on Thursday because the title I've chosen if just perfect. I call it "Morning Before" because of the wonderful irony in that he dumped me last night. Just read, y/y?

( Morning Before )

I also wrote this shit piece about writing essays, so it shows how my head wasn't in the right place cause a guy was hitting on me.

( Technical )

And I wrote this as a response today during...I don't know what class. Chemistry? Probably.

( Technically )

So you see I took my angst and turned it into creative energy, especially in the soundtrack I made called "The 'Get Over Him' Soundtrack." I'd been so creative making it that I fell off with titles... But it has it's own album art and stuff. Go look!

Where did the fun of writing go? Where I would sit down and words would just come flowing out? I can't blame it on role-playing, really, because I've done that since the summer I was eleven. But it started with journal role-playing it seems like. I left the "noobish" (although I know some advanced writers who still play them) world of board games (sounds like Monopoly, or something... >.< ) and joined the journals, first at LJ, then GJ, then here with The Great Migration.

It was at my first game where writing started to be a chore, but it was still pretty fun and came easy. But when we moved to GJ, I hardly could bring myself to reply, as did a few of us, actually, and the game soon closed again. Then as I joined games I would often be very into them and be very into the plot I want done, but the actual act of writing the tag was like pulling teeth half of the time. And don't get me started on writing apps. By the time I'd finished them I'd forgotten why I was interested in making them in the first place. Writing has just become such a pain in the ass. I felt slightly rejuvenated with two LOSLI characters, and I had fun in spurts with the others, but even that became difficult.

It feels like a chore, a job almost that I have to do now. And I have ideas in my head, a whole novel and such, dying to come out, but I get two sentences out and then nothing. Do you all get in this rut? Do you ever snap out of it?

I loved writing, and reading, so much my mom had to ground me from books to make any impact as a kid and I would still hide them under my mattress. I had tons of harddrive dedicated to the crap I'd written as a kid, taking up my parents space and making them mad. I've been obsessed and dedicated to it since I wrote my first story at age three ("lilepads go in the water."). Yes, that's the correct spelling. I even illustrated it.

Where'd the fun go?