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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]

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.