A Day in the Life of the Scribbler, October 2

[scribblemyname]

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Daily Scribble Reports

So last night, I quit writing because my sciatic nerve went crazy, but here I am again. Again, I'll update this post throughout the day.

Day 2 of my journal the reading/writing and let's start off with a quick stop by Melanie Edmond's Starwalker to read the latest update, "Watchful." Excellent, nail-biting, and feel-for-Starry stuff. I love this little serial.

But actually, I started as usual with checking my LiveJournal inbox, then read up on a handful of blogs: The Passive Voice, Dean Wesley Smith, The Daring Novelist, and since it's a Wednesday, the newest review at Strange Horizons. It's a Wednesday. P.C. Wrede will have updated. Got back from reading that. It was about plot development, something I've never concerned myself with so much as story development, but I'll let it mull and see if I can use any of it in my own process.

Now. To assess...

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Stage One: Assess

Several pieces from thecatisacritic to read. I'll get there. Soon. I've got some prompts I want to dump off on her too as soon as I figure out who for which.

My wonderful beta has convinced me not to tear a new one for the story from inferno, so it's ficlets or "Collateral Damage," and I'm leaning a lot more heavily toward the latter, except I do need to sit down and work out chronology on all this mess, which sort of requires interrogating Pieter and Ashen and a few other set events that I haven't mucked around with yet. Gotta love continuity.

So. Ficlets. :eyes prompts: Let's see what we can come up with.

Stage Two: Work

Put off work until after chiropractor appointment as there went first work break, including reposting yesterday's entry sans my lovely comments. I'm currently ticked off at LiveJournal.

So I'm calling this day a wash. Sciatic nerve still a little crazy.

Stage Three: Count

For obvious reasons, we are not counting the words spent commenting.

• Total Fiction: 0 words - Month to Date: 1827 words
• Total Blog: 310 words - Month to Date: 719 words

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Comments

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

I will so (not) helpfully point out that there are technically Pieter pieces you sort of owe me. I was supposed to reserve judgment for until I read the one, plus there was the one where he met Ashen and I don't know if the stuff we talked about for his pet is a separate prompt or not, but there are a few things there.

Incidentally, I remembered that I had (and probably failed) to do a story with a character who had lost her whole family in a revolution and was in some ways a refugee (the narrator in that ficlet Lords, Ladies, and Books) but I'm not sure that's of any help, but maybe I'll find a way of fixing my own stuff after seeing Pieter. I don't know.

[scribblemyname]

Other than the pets, same piece. It's in progress, but it ain't done seeing as it's, you know, linchpin piece, and not a ficlet at all.

I think I owe you and others a LOT of fics, but I am working down the list now that my brain is slowly moving off the "I hurt!" track to the "Let's write something now."

Collateral Damage is also one I owe you (I think there's about five prompts in there so far), as it's where Rachelle's physical issues get resolved.

I didn't have good access to Pieter's bits while I was buried in computer down and out, and now I've got to figure out what file I actually buried them in and until I do... Yeah.

So there's that.

And Cate and Marc keep pestering me too (you wouldn't believe how many snippets are hiding out in my 132 WIP file), but they're off the promptfest, so looking through there. I had to pull out the prompt comments for my own sanity.

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay.

Yes, you probably do, but not all of them have to be done right away. I think I tend to get more of my prompts filled than anyone else, so... I'd almost say it should be someone else's turn, but...

I'm selfish, and I don't want to ruin the good progress you were making in Kingdoms and Thorn.

Do you have any of your files in an online storage space at all? I have mine backed up on dropbox myself, in addition to the big backup drive and the files on both the desktop and my laptop. My laptop's been threatening to die for the last year or so, and I just save my documents right to the dropbox so that I don't have to worry so much about losing stuff when it does die.

I should probably find a better way of organizing my prompts, too. Probably a document with a list, but I'm lazy, so I haven't done it yet. I just keep the prompt comments as unread for easier finding in the inbox.

[scribblemyname]

I usually am good and enter my prompts in on lianamir.com, but not usually for commentfics because I'm pounding them out. Yeah. It's getting a wee crazy. :shakes head ruefully:

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I suppose I ought to organize all my prompts and fills onto the site, but I've usually only been good about putting the fills over there.

Commentfics and responses... They get out of hand way too easily. Not that it's a bad thing to do all that writing. Not really.

[scribblemyname]

Now if I could only get my creative brain into gear. I think it died when I took the naproxen. :headdesk:

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

Did you eat with it? I think I was told to eat when I took those, if that's the prescription I'm thinking of.

Otherwise, hmm. It may take a jumpstart. Perhaps you need tea?

[scribblemyname]

The eating particularly helps NSAIDs to not mess with your stomach lining. Hypoglycemia runs in the family, so I basically have food in my stomach at all times except when I first wake up and when I'm headed for bed. I've never had a problem with naproxen. (Ibuprofin on the other hand...)

I'm drinking tea, and reading prompts and fic, but the muse keeps blinking at me like, uh...?

Yeah. Not being inspired and wanting to write? Bleh.

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

I had issues with naproxen and not ibuprofen, but then I'd worked myself past tolerance for anything lower than ibuprofen when I was still in elementary school and getting headaches a lot.

Hmm. Maybe you need... Well, a change of scenery probably won't work, so... time for something different? A game changer. A... different world?

[scribblemyname]

Well, I do intend to hit Vardin hard after K&T, but after. It's easier to do one world at a time.

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

Sometimes it just is easier to get the pen flowing on something new/different instead of the stuff that hasn't brought forth any inspiration, at least for me.

[scribblemyname]

'Tis why I always accept more prompts. But this is, I think, more a me-thing, than the source material.

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

I had thought of something else I was going to suggest as a prompt, but it eludes me now.

Oh, well. If I remember it, I'll pass it along when I do.