Friday Rants and Raves - March 7

[sarillia]

It's that time again! Made any progress lately? Anything exciting happen? Got something to vent about? Let's hear it!

This week's picture is from an artist known as De Es Schwertberger. You can click on his name to visit his website and see more of his work if you're interested.

Comments

[agilebrit]

I swear to Dad, I am going to beat this story to death with my bare hands. It's now on its third iteration, I'm having to murder darlings I adore, and I'm afraid it still sucks. Plus I want to write something to sub to the UFO3 anthology, and I have a vague idea for that, but nothing is coming together for anything.

I'm at that writing stage where I think everything I do is terrible and I feel stuck and dumb and like I've been spinning my wheels for the last three months even though I finished two stories and am nearly done with a third.

And I know what I need to do--I need to open Write or Die, put on a soundtrack, and just start scribbling. And yet I don't. Gah. Someone kick me.

[sarillia]

*kick, kick* Go write! Do it now! No thinking! :p

But you should be proud of what you've accomplished. You've done much more than I have in the last three months at least, and I have friends who tell me I'm prolific.

I know that feeling though. I hope you find a way to get through it soon and feel happy with your work.

That anthology looks interesting. I am very intimidated by the idea of writing humor though. It's hard.

[agilebrit]

Thank you. My year got off to a bad start because I've been sick no less than three times already. So I've had a severe case of Failure to Launch. And it doesn't help that this is a story that I've wanted to write for a long time, and now that I'm sitting down to do it, it's not coming together like it should. *sigh*

Humor is hard! I can do it, but it tends to devolve to slapstick comedy of errors pretty fast, and not everyone likes that, apparently. I'm still looking for a home for the story I wrote to try to get into the UFO2 antho. Eesh.

[splinteredstar]

*threatens with boot*

[agilebrit]

Eep! *scribbles madly*