In Which I'm Vaguely Ashamed of Myself

[gnomi]

...and more than vaguely frustrated with myself.

So there's this call that came out, and I have a WIP that would fit the call perfectly. And I've been meaning to do something with said WIP for a while now. And tweaking it to fit the length required (it's originally part of a much longer thing) won't really take too much work.

So what am I doing? Avoiding working on it.

Not sure why. I've read over what I have, and I've got ideas of what I should do to it. I just... I'm not.

::grrs at my own brain::

Comments

[anahcrow.livejournal.com]

If nattering will help, I'm on gchat and other messengers at the moment. Or email. Ping me if you think talking about it will help. :) Otherwise, my sympathies. I do this all the time.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I think I just have to give myself a good kick-start. And, well, not be in the office doing work-work. :-)

[gem225.livejournal.com]

I'm sending good rewriting wishes. I hope that they help. Does this need to be done and submitted now/soon? Know that I'm here if I can help.

*hugs*

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

It's an August-timeframe kind of thing, so I have some time. It is just *staring* at me.

::hugs::

[byrne.livejournal.com]

welcome. this is my life.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Nice to know it's not just me.

I think I need someone to kick me. Though to some extent the characters are going to do that if I don't get to the writing soon enough for their taste.

[introverte.livejournal.com]

I thought you were talking about a knitting WIP, and I was trying to fit "call" into that, although "length" makes sense, if you were knitting something to order. Overall it didn't make sense and I was scratching my head.

Then dawn broke over Marblehead. sigh

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I read it over after I posted it and realized that the knitters on my friends list might get very confused.

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

I'm like that. Sometimes the apathy just buries me :;hugs you::

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

::hugs::

What's killing me is that I know, approximately, what I have to do. I just can't get the motivation to *do* it.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Can I help? I know a lot about lack of motivation.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

We should go back to writing on your non-class nights. I think that'll give me the kick I need.

[tiptoe39.livejournal.com]

hey gnomi, how do you get "calls" ? is there a publication? or something?

just curious

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

It totally depends. Some of it is being on the right lists, some of it is being at the right place at the right time.

I wish I could give you better guidance than that.

[sorek.livejournal.com]

"...it's originally part of a much longer thing"

I think that's the hangup right there. You're attached to the much longer story and don't want to break it up.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Well, other than having to figure what parts of the original thing I need to put into the smaller thing, I'm fine with cutting it down. Especially because I don't know what market the big thing could go to, but there's a call that the smaller one fits for.

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

Argh! You and I are apparently sharing a writerly brain.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

It's comforting to know I'm not the only one going through this at the moment.

Here's to motivation picking up!

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

*it is okay. Fridays were MADE for avoidance. Mondays were made for productivity.*

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I believe I shall continue to avoid it for the rest of the day, then. Thank you for letting me know that Fridays are for avoidance. :-)

mabfan and I plan to write Sunday night, so with luck I'll make some headway then.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

do you need to be whapped with a trout? because i have one for just such an occasion. >(((">

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

That is a lovely trout-of-whapping. I believe I might, indeed, require a whapping of that sort.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

trout: *WHAP*

troutslaps on command! what are friends for? :D