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Got in a bit of a YouTube spiral tonight while going back and forth with SaraJo about such topics as Doctor Who (she's starting Ten but doesn't love him yet... must work harder at that!), the music of Doctor Who (which moved rather seamlessly into some Andrew Lloyd Weber for me), highlights of the Olympics recently (the bad dive for her and the Brazil rings for me), and then on some Josh Groban. Don't even ask me how I found him because it wasn't up there with ALW. I think YouTube just assumes I need some Groban time every few weeks or I'll dry up and blow away!
I don't think I've listened to JG while writing C/N before! It's an interesting experience!
I decided to pull out the hospital story because I need to write some angst! There's not as much love for AUs as the good ol', heart-rending angst out there so I felt I needed to step back into the realms of reality and write them getting hurt. *waits for the inevitable wave of sighs* Was sort of hoping this would be a drabble. I don't think I can write drabbles anymore.
On the upside, writing a decent length story takes as much time today as those drabbles I used to write would take me. I wrote the pharmacy story in... three days? At least two really good writing evenings. And those drabbles would take me several days each! Weird, huh? Amazing what writing non-stop for five years will do for the speed and length one can produce!
I was thinking about that the other day. It's been awhile since I've had a good long break from writing. It used to be that I could write in November for NaNo and that was really all. Then I was writing more and more little things and RPing stuff. These days, even in the times where it doesn't appear I'm writing anything for public consumption, I'm writing stuff with Aster or original stuff. I've been trying to include at least one day a week of plotting on paper (eek!) and one day of editing (for myself or others).
Even when I moved back home, I didn't really take a break. I wrote through the move, becoming quite a beast about getting my writing time. There was that month when I was sick this winter that I didn't produce much. Well, even that's not really true because I took off about five days, altogether and I think I still produced stuff.
I'm almost afraid of taking a break. NOt that I feel I need one, of course. I just wonder if I'll go through withdrawal at this point. Scary thought! Enough of one that I'm going to keep going without seeing if I need to stop!
Taking the days off from actually writing has put me behind again but I have the whole weekend stretching out before me! Hooray!
I don't think I've listened to JG while writing C/N before! It's an interesting experience!
I decided to pull out the hospital story because I need to write some angst! There's not as much love for AUs as the good ol', heart-rending angst out there so I felt I needed to step back into the realms of reality and write them getting hurt. *waits for the inevitable wave of sighs* Was sort of hoping this would be a drabble. I don't think I can write drabbles anymore.
On the upside, writing a decent length story takes as much time today as those drabbles I used to write would take me. I wrote the pharmacy story in... three days? At least two really good writing evenings. And those drabbles would take me several days each! Weird, huh? Amazing what writing non-stop for five years will do for the speed and length one can produce!
I was thinking about that the other day. It's been awhile since I've had a good long break from writing. It used to be that I could write in November for NaNo and that was really all. Then I was writing more and more little things and RPing stuff. These days, even in the times where it doesn't appear I'm writing anything for public consumption, I'm writing stuff with Aster or original stuff. I've been trying to include at least one day a week of plotting on paper (eek!) and one day of editing (for myself or others).
Even when I moved back home, I didn't really take a break. I wrote through the move, becoming quite a beast about getting my writing time. There was that month when I was sick this winter that I didn't produce much. Well, even that's not really true because I took off about five days, altogether and I think I still produced stuff.
I'm almost afraid of taking a break. NOt that I feel I need one, of course. I just wonder if I'll go through withdrawal at this point. Scary thought! Enough of one that I'm going to keep going without seeing if I need to stop!
Taking the days off from actually writing has put me behind again but I have the whole weekend stretching out before me! Hooray!
