ratherastory: (SPN Writing is Hard!)
ratherastory ([personal profile] ratherastory) wrote2011-07-05 08:08 pm

Gaaah....

If you need me, I'll be over here in this corner, quietly (or not-so-quietly) freaking out over my summergen.

The SPN re-watch will start once I've finished summergen. Thanks for your understanding. :P

[identity profile] dante-s-hell.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Like pulling teeth, huh? Sorry it's giving you such trouble. Hope the block fizzles to nothing and your muse shines again soon!

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
It really is. It's got a two-part structure that's killing me. If I can pull it off, though, it'll be really cool. I hope.
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[personal profile] embroiderama 2011-07-06 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
All I can say is go you for pushing through it. Unlike me.

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
*hugs*

Sometimes it just doesn't work out, you know? That's why pinch-hitters exist. :)

[identity profile] rainylemons.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
What she said. :) Sometimes life happens, the brain takes a vacation, and all of that. I know it still sucks for you, but with pinch-hitters? Well, you just gave someone a chance to write a story that they might just have a ball writing.

[identity profile] de-nugis.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
I'm also in a corner freaking out over my summergen. You are not alone.

[identity profile] de-nugis.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
I am trying to accept that I clearly packed my muse in one banker's box and my brain in another and left them both in a storage facility in TO.

You can do it!

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
If only I can make this damn structure work the way I want it to, I think the story is actually pretty cool. It's just fighting me every step of the way.

You can do it too!

[identity profile] peepingdru.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
I think I just wet meself reading your tags:D
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[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! Glad to have provided entertainment. ;)

[identity profile] yasminke.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I could use some entertainment, if you want...

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
You'll be getting the entertainment as soon as I finish this draft. I am *thisclose* if only I can get the reveal/end to work the way I want it. I think I should be able to send it to you from work without our firewall getting in my way. I hope.

*clings to you*

[identity profile] yasminke.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
I shall look for it in my in-box! W00t!

(Is this the one I think it is??)
Edited 2011-07-06 01:06 (UTC)

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Yes it is, if it's the one for which you provided me with reference material. :)

[identity profile] yasminke.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
Yays! VERY excited to read it. Hope I can be of more help.

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
If you can make sense of the text and tell me what's wrong with it, I will officially appoint you Summergen Superhero. :)

[identity profile] yasminke.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Mwahaha! The Procrastinatrix at your service.

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Yay!

[identity profile] greeneyes-fan.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I decided to do something a little outside my comfort zone for SummerGen. Around this time last week I was thinking I'd lost my mind for doing that!

It'll come together. And I'm sure it's already better than anything most of the rest of us could put together!

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
I'm always astonished at the quality of stuff that comes out of summergen. It's always such high-caliber writing. :)

I'm writing out of my usual element as well, though not entirely out of my comfort zone. It's just different than what I usually write.

[identity profile] harrigan.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Every time you post wailing about your current fic crises, I get so excited because it reminds me that new fic from you is coming soon! \o/

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! Glad someone is getting something out of my suffering. ;)

Mind you, since it's summergen I don't know when it'll post and you won't know which story is mine until the reveal.

[identity profile] harrigan.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
Your [livejournal.com profile] spn_summergen was one of my favorites! It will be fun trying to figure them out!

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
*bounces*

I'm so glad! I'm doing something completely different this year, so we shall see.

[identity profile] nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
Um... so what would be the best way to read all the summergen shinys?! Join summergen?

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Yup. Join and/or watch the comm. :)

[identity profile] nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
:))))))))

I actually desperately wanted to do summergen (good thing I didn't *wants to shoot the month of June and, so far, July*) but missed the boat since I wasn't watching/in the comm. Consider that amended. :)

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Next year!

[identity profile] saberivojo.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
*pets you* At least you had the balls to do it this year...maybe next year I'll have time because I had so much fun last year!

I'm sure you will muddle through and it will be awesome!

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
You were totally busy with school and boards and stuff. There is always next year! :)
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[personal profile] sistabro 2011-07-06 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
*Joins the freak out party*

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
*pulls out a chair for you*

[identity profile] rainylemons.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
You are a bajillion forms of awesome. I'll be right here cheering you on. Granted, I may be somewhat comatose while doing it, but you'll get it done. And it will be awesome. :)

[identity profile] jesseofthenorth.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
You are a braver woman than me! I freak just thinking about signing up for summergen.
Keep going darlin' I know you can do it!

[identity profile] ratherastory.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
Really? Summergen is one of the shorter challenges out there. You should sign up next year! My own freaking out notwithstanding, it has some of the best gen writing out there. :)

[identity profile] jesseofthenorth.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not actually the gen part that bothers me it's the part about being assigned a prompt I can't make work. i have horrors about not being able to deliver.

[identity profile] gottalovev.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
ahh, freaking out. I know the feeling. not for that challenge specifically, but you know what I mean!

*cheers you on*

[identity profile] sanguine2.livejournal.com 2011-07-06 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
am super impressed by how much you push yourself -
good girl!
Edited 2011-07-06 16:13 (UTC)