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!

[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.