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I am seriously captain of the failboat here. Not only can I not think of stories, I cannot even think of prompts for stories (e.g. softly_sweetly asking about August birthdays). My mind draws an utter blank. I think, honestly, that I have depleted the well and have already written every piece of fic I was ever going to be able to write (so... ten months' worth? not quite, I think). I haven't got so much as a drabble, a sub-drabble, a sentence in seven weeks. It's been six months since I posted in snape100 and the last time I did, it was crap.

I am firmly of the belief that unless you can perform a skill relatively at will, then you don't really possess it. Sure, there are off days and conditions which can prevent successful execution and whatnot, but in general, if you want or need to do it, you are able to. Well, I think you can see where I am going with that. And since fandom is an odd kind of timocracy-slash-meritocracy where your worth is related to how much good creative material you can produce, well, the phrase "shit or get off the pot" comes to mind. *wry grin*

In slightly related news, I think I am going to post a few bits of abandoned crap here over the next day or so. I know this kind of thing is not allowed, but I want them out of cluttering my WIP folder, pushing them to another folder will not do it because I'll know they're there, and the idea of simply wiping them gives me the heebie-jeebies. Unlike with email, where I mercilessly delete unless I know I have a reason to keep (and Gmail's practice of moving things to Trash when POPped off the server, rather than actually deleting them like every other POP3 server, drives me batty), I have developed a habit of not liking to delete things unless I have some secure reason to know I will never need them, e.g. when old versions are superseded by new ones. I can't imagine what I would need with these because they are stupid ideas and unfixable problems and like that, but ... still, I don't like the feeling of destroying utterly.

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I am seriously captain of the failboat here. Not only can I not think of stories, I cannot even think of prompts for stories (e.g. softly_sweetly asking about August birthdays). My mind draws an utter blank. I think, honestly, that I have depleted the well and have already written every piece of fic I was ever going to be able to write (so... ten months' worth? not quite, I think). I haven't got so much as a drabble, a sub-drabble, a sentence in seven weeks. It's been six months since I posted in snape100 and the last time I did, it was crap.

I am firmly of the belief that unless you can perform a skill relatively at will, then you don't really possess it. Sure, there are off days and conditions which can prevent successful execution and whatnot, but in general, if you want or need to do it, you are able to. Well, I think you can see where I am going with that. And since fandom is an odd kind of timocracy-slash-meritocracy where your worth is related to how much good creative material you can produce, well, the phrase "shit or get off the pot" comes to mind. *wry grin*

In slightly related news, I think I am going to post a few bits of abandoned crap here over the next day or so. I know this kind of thing is not allowed, but I want them out of cluttering my WIP folder, pushing them to another folder will not do it because I'll know they're there, and the idea of simply wiping them gives me the heebie-jeebies. Unlike with email, where I mercilessly delete unless I know I have a reason to keep (and Gmail's practice of moving things to Trash when POPped off the server, rather than actually deleting them like every other POP3 server, drives me batty), I have developed a habit of not liking to delete things unless I have some secure reason to know I will never need them, e.g. when old versions are superseded by new ones. I can't imagine what I would need with these because they are stupid ideas and unfixable problems and like that, but ... still, I don't like the feeling of destroying utterly.

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Does anyone remember where that journal or community was that was trying to be a master directory of active fests, so as to help people planning a fest or exchange from tripping over each other with dates and themes and all that? I am pondering whether to try to actually do something with hp_crackdealers, having taken it off I think it was nishizono's hands, but I have a sinking feeling that the docket is pretty full already.

ETA: ships_harry appears to have got it.

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Does anyone remember where that journal or community was that was trying to be a master directory of active fests, so as to help people planning a fest or exchange from tripping over each other with dates and themes and all that? I am pondering whether to try to actually do something with hp_crackdealers, having taken it off I think it was nishizono's hands, but I have a sinking feeling that the docket is pretty full already.

ETA: ships_harry appears to have got it.

*sporfle*

Misspelling of the day:

the Slytherin conman room

*sporfle*

Misspelling of the day:

the Slytherin conman room

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Huh. Here I thought I'd got over being put off by 20-year age differences (case usually in point, Severus/Harry), or at least was consistently able to handwave it as "age difference alone is kind of the least of the issues here". But guess what? Bring a 19-year-old Lily forward in time to a nearly 38-year-old Severus, and lo and behold, I am back to not being able to stomach it. Weird.

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Huh. Here I thought I'd got over being put off by 20-year age differences (case usually in point, Severus/Harry), or at least was consistently able to handwave it as "age difference alone is kind of the least of the issues here". But guess what? Bring a 19-year-old Lily forward in time to a nearly 38-year-old Severus, and lo and behold, I am back to not being able to stomach it. Weird.