Personal Note: They come in threes

[nebroadwe]

Natural disaster #3: minor flooding. Not as bad as what came with Irene, but still pretty annoying. (I hope kanja177 isn't stuck on a train somewhere -- things started getting bad up by her yesterday.)

Got my fireandice2011 prompts. I signed up partly because I've written some stuff I really liked for this contest in the past, but mostly to give my muse a reason to get back to work. As y'all will have noticed, I haven't written anything for months. I can count on the fingers of one hand the workable ideas I've had in that time. I have no yen to sit down and write. (I blame this on both my own lack of discipline and the ongoing, soul-grinding difficulties that have overtaken a local voluntary organization in which I have participated, at various levels of leadership, for the past twenty years.) So when the prompts arrived I stared at them and thought, "What in blazes am I going to do with these?"

But I did have the start of an idea for one of them (thank you, Al!) and have been hammering away at a plot to house it. Now I'm at the point where I'm paranoid about repeating myself -- I don't want to keep writing the same story, but my comfort zone for romance is ... narrow. So I decided to set myself a challenge that's frequently considered orthogonal to romance and see if I could create an Ed/Win piece that ... well, you'll see, if I pull it off. All my characters are talking to each other, which is a good sign. I just hope I can plant myself in front of the keyboard long enough to get the thing finished by deadline. Now, off to do research!

Comments

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

good luck with it. Romance isn't my comfort zone (stares as secondary job as an erotic romance writer thinking really? Why?) I have barely looked at my prompts

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Good luck with yours, too. That surprises me a little, knowing about the secondary job. I put two or more characters into a romantic situation and they either look at me and say, "You expect us to do what now?" or start jabbering on about something else entirely. Or they get bored and wander off while I'm trying to figure out the mechanics. Sigh.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah that's my shameful secret, I don't really like romance all that much and keeping hoping for markets with that topic that don't include it.

sigh. and thanks