Summer?

[layla]

The trees are all leafed out and green. It rained a few days ago and that really brought out the color in the trees. I was going to spend this weekend working on my garden, but I twisted my ankle climbing on rock piles at the end of last week -- it swelled up and turned interesting colors, so I decided to spend the weekend indoors instead, working on Freebird.

Tonight while walking (limping?) the dogs, I found myself thinking about Raven's Children again. The next story arc. I really want to work on it right now. O irony of life! I actually know how I want it to begin (in my head, the beginning is already written) and approximately where I want it to end -- basically I'm throwing out whole storylines and focusing on the ones I'm really interested in.

It might not be that long before I pick up RC again, after all.

Comments

[divalea.livejournal.com]

I've found that whenever I start to work on one thing, everything else tarts itself up and offers me oral sex. I mean, they are that forward and bluntly seductive, "C'mon, that story only does it missionary style. I'll try anything twice, three times if I hate it!"

Drat them! And when I give in, the OTHER story tries to win me back!

Or maybe not. Could be that other things look less like work than the work at hand. And they DO come vividly to life for me when I'm not thinking so hard on them, like the way a star is a bit brighter when you look juuust to the side of it.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

hahaha! Thank you ... for the delightful, brain-tickling metaphor and also because it's SO nice to know I'm not just afflicted by some kind of creative attention deficit disorder! Fickle, fickle imagination ... the way to turn a fun thing into work is to do it every day, I guess. I just spent 4 hours writing Kismet, and it was a lot of fun at the *beginning* of the evening, but not so much by the end...

[divalea.livejournal.com]

Anyone who says they don't get a sexual charge when the writing's going well is just Fibby O'Fibber.

And thanks!

[vogelein.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

It is the ultimate in amusing yet cruel irony. I spent years yearning to work on other projects while laboring with the albatross of Raven's Children around my neck. Now I'm done with it; I can set it aside and work on the other projects that have been calling to me. And what do I want to write most at the moment? Raven's Children!

... my brain hates me.