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[arcanetrivia]

LOL, wrisomifu. For those who can't hack NaNoWriMo, there is Write Something You Miserable Fuck! Never mind novels or fic, just do 10 minutes a day of whatever crap you can possibly squeeze out.

...How sad is it that I know I can't even do that? (because despite it being permitted, I know you don't want 10 minutes a day of shopping lists.)

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[elf]

The theory is, after three days or so of writing shopping lists and free-association poetry and favorite songs squee, you get bored and settle down to real writing.

If that doesn't work, you can grab a random prompt list from any fic fest, and write ten minutes' worth of commentary on why you do or don't like the prompt, and what could be done with it.

[arcanetrivia]

The theory is, after three days or so of writing shopping lists and free-association poetry and favorite songs squee, you get bored and settle down to real writing.

What would happen with me is that I'd get bored and then depressed and then just drop out.


Prompt tables don't help for their intended purpose. (Well, I managed to squeeze a little over 7k of rambling Severus/Sirius out of one once, but it wasn't going anywhere and, regardless, I haven't been able to repeat the feat.) Commentary on why I do or don't like a prompt is a new idea, but... what would I say? I'm almost always neutral on prompts considered as free-floating ideas. (ferex, Why do I or do I not like "moon" as a prompt? I mean... ?) I highly doubt I could get to 10 minutes unless there was some very bizarre material.

[elf]

I could always type for ten minutes on a given topic. Especially if I don't have to stick to the topic, but can drift into something else. Why I don't like moon as a prompt, 'cos its only place in hp canon is in reference to werewolves of whom I don't like any, which may be why I never figured out the Twilight thing, which also has vampires and I hear they're pathetic too, and gods aren't all these hot sexy vampires derivatives of Interview or maybe older than that, St Germain (which nobody's ever heard of because Chelsea Quinn Yarbro was fanatically anti-fanfic in the early 80's, so her stories just died as soon as they were out of print)....

Um. Yeah. I could always ramble for ten minutes; the problem is getting ten uninterrupted minutes to work. (And coming up with something more useful to write than free association ramblings. They're more entertaining than grocery lists, but not, I think, more useful to me as a writer.)

And why don't I have a "writing" icon? I must fix this.

[arcanetrivia]

Apropos of little, I have heard of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, although I don't think I've actually read anything she's written.

the problem is getting ten uninterrupted minutes to work.

This, too. "Interruption" per se isn't quite the right word for my problem, but close enough. At work I have too many other things I ought to be doing (didn't used to be the case; when I worked supervising public service area, much as I hated it, there was little to do minute to minute and in 2007-2008 that's actually when I wrote most of my fic); at home it's more a problem of privacy than interruption. But overall "lack of opportunity", we could call it.