So on general updateyness and a story-hopping muse...

[scribblemyname]

I'm learning to roll with the punches. I'm just as bad at changing stories due to reading something as I've ever been, and I'm nothing like Dean Wesley Smith: I read my own work. A lot. That's why I wrote it.

What this means? I'm currently quite anxious to write some more Niko & Collie (read genderswap Black Widow and Hawkeye from Avengers) fanfic, finish up the story of the Thorn Rebellion I thought I'd never touch, and add new chapters to my various WIP while also finishing out whichever fics I think I can wrap up and off my plate.

Can you tell what I've been reading? My own work. And it's inspiring me. The only problem is I have a voracious readerly appetite and by the time I've read enough to get full, I'm inspired in waaaaaaay too many directions.

How's your reading or writing going?

:goes back to scribbling:

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Comments

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as you know, I reread DJ's story on the trip. I figure if I can read the entire novel 4 times and still not be sick of it, then it's got to be good for something.

It's so great to be inspired by your own work. It's fantastic. Hope it never dies down for you!

[scribblemyname]

Thank you! Though I wouldn't mind a wee bit of a slowdown on the idea sprawl. Please?

And of course, it's good for something! I want a paperback copy sometime to smuggle between my blankets and read. Often.

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

I had to ban myself from reading anything else that I'd written. I was struggling with sequel psychosis. Every single story made me want to do a sequel, and I did cave in to at least two of them, but as I can't write anything short of a novel unless I get horribly stuck, I just had to say no more to reading.

It's not like I have time to read with all the extra hours at work and constant emotional/physical drain that seems to come with them. I've already got five stories in rotation (yes, five, yes, I'm insane) so I still don't get to read unless it's to remind myself of some point in one of the ones I am working on.

Still... It is good to enjoy what we wrote and to find inspiration for more within those pages, I think.

[scribblemyname]

Only five? :makes grabby hands: I've got... Never mind. I shouldn't admit to it. But en brief, I've lost count.

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

Five is plenty.

Trust me.

I was about to turn it into a competition, start talking word counts and the mass of WIP I have that I'm not actively working on, but no, that's not necessary. I'd just regret it if I started. It's not being a good person, trying to argue like that.

Five is more than I can handle right now, but I can't seem to talk myself into letting one go even long enough to finish another.

*sigh*

[scribblemyname]

Oh, not competing. Sorry if it came off as that. Genuinely wishing and longing and remembering when I had only five instead of five dozen plus. I've been where you're at and I know they're plenty, but alas! I'm deeper in the hole now and would that I could control this little muse o' mine.

:hugs:

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

No, it was me. I felt the need to compete. I wanted to say that my five were the same kind of trouble as the five dozen plus because of my novelist tendencies and knowing that even with the one I'm furthest in it would take at least 10k words to finish and thinking that number's overly optimistic and near impossible to reach when I've had multiple days where I can't write at all lately. Then if I add my backlog or the things I'd like to write on, I just depress myself even more because I know there's no way to get to all of that. Such is the way of the writer, though, I suppose.

If only inspiration was easier to control, right?

*hugs back*