if the vampire in my head says it, its the voice of reason

[balsamandash]

Do you ever read fic - especially elaborate AUs or really blantantly unrepentant tropey/fandom favorite plot fic - and just wonder how their brain did not just... Blare a pounding "you're an idiot" alarm at them until they stopped?

This sounds like an insult. It is not. I just want to know how to turn off the alarm. The only thing that seems to work is writing off prompts, but A) I don't have those kinds of prompts and B) I don't want to wait til i do to write a fucking thing.

Judging by my Ao3 I have not written nonprompt fic in two years. In don't think this is quite accurate but what isn't prompt fic, I think is solely written for the knowledge that one specific person wants it, which feels like the same thing.

I don't.know. I really don't. I'm just. Tired. And I.want to feel like I'm writing again. Even though I've written a fuck ton more this month than in ages, I still don't feel like I'm writing, somehow, and it.drives me up a wall.

Comments

[worlds_of_smoke]

maybe if you tell yourself that you don't have to to show it to anyone? I've found it's easier doing the tangle art I'm doing once I said that showing it to people is an option, rather than a requirement. It also helped my perfectionist weasels because, if I'm not showing what I do to anyone, nobody will know if I throw an attempt at a tangle away. (And hooboy, have I thrown tangles away. Apparently, I suck at making anything that's supposed to be nicely and uniformly curly or wavy. >.<)

[silveradept]

Are there any prompts you want to give yourself that you haven't done yet?

[shipwreck_light]

A lot of what I write is barely to prompt.

"Contes Barbares?" On scene with a snake out of 14,000 words.

Just because a fic used a prompt does not make it any more or any less. It makes it a fic that has a prompt somewhere in its history. I guess that's better than rage? And I say that as a rageohol powered writer.

That said, I tend to use vodka.