Personal Note: Oh, no, not again!

Being, as I am, thoroughly blocked on the second part of "The Weight of the Paper", I decided to take part in the Ed/Winry "Fire and Ice" Challenge on the theory that a) writing to a random prompt might bump me out of the authorial funk; and b) I need more practice writing romance. Well, the prompts have not been assigned yet, but I'm already being dogged by a sketch set slightly ahead of the current arc in the mangaverse, in which Ed and Winry ... well, we'll see, won't we? Usefully, it's from Ed's POV (everything else even remotely Ed/Win that I've attempted has been from Winry's, so huzzah for stretching the imagination). Un-usefully, it's trying to write itself out in full, which is exactly what happened to "Light the Traveler Home", my 'fic for last year's Ed/Win Christmas challenge, which story ended up repudiating its prompt completely. (And it was a good prompt, too. Sigh.) So I am trying to walk the delicate line of making notes that might be useful about dialogue and arc of characterization without committing myself to any particular setting, plot or resolution. As Calvin might say, "Oog." In a way, though, it helps to be out ahead of the story-so-far (through chapter 72), because I can divert my brain by working out how the outcome of current plot issues might give rise to a moment in which Ed can ... well, we'll see, won't we? :-)