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Nov. 12th, 2009 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightOkay, since it's now almost two weeks since I had a good whinge about fic writing, I thought it was time for another.
Whingeing (whinging?) behind cut so that those who are terminally bored by the whole thing can avoid it.
You know that fic I was moaning about where I couldn't get Spike and Angel to have sex? Okay, so that problem is solved but now I seem to be facing another, which is that whenever I sit down to try and finish it, I find it impossible. In the end, I get bored of staring at the computer screen and wander off to do something else.
I'm not sure whether I'm finding it impossible because:
A) it's a bad story and my subconscious is telling me to give it up
or
B) I've just reached a natural end of my fanfic writing career and my subconscious is telling me to give it up
I'd much rather think it was A) of course as there are still several stories I want to write, including the mirror story (an excerpt of which formed the September calendar post) and that series of Spike/Giles AU season 7 fics. However, there is no doubt that I've found fic writing extremely difficult this year and have agonised over everything even more than usual. Writing's difficult anyway and this year there are times when I've found it next to impossible. Not because I have writers' block (at least, I don't think so) but just because. Okay, have managed to write a few things, notably The Worst Journey in the World and Venus and Mars, but even those (in fact, especially those) have felt like wading through treacle.
Also, and even more worryingly, I think I might have be having an attack of the canons. This is a terrible ailment, during which when you're suffering from it, you suddenly find yourself going off the idea of non-canon pairings - a very unfortunate complaint for someone like me who mostly writes non-canon pairings.
I suspect this because, while trying to write this fic, I found myself unable to contemplate any circumstances in which Spike and Angel (who are actually a canon pairing, in fact, but the evidence is still barely more than subtext) would have sex. And it just went on from there. As you can imagine, I hope it wears off quickly and is just a symptom of my not wanting to write this fic.
Oh well, seems I was a bit precipitate in leaving that nunnery.
Also, as a comment on all the irritation Spike and Angel's refusal to have sex gave me, I was going to write a Spike and Angel as Buddhist Monks drabble, but then I got worried about offending Buddhists, so I haven't.
Whingeing (whinging?) behind cut so that those who are terminally bored by the whole thing can avoid it.
You know that fic I was moaning about where I couldn't get Spike and Angel to have sex? Okay, so that problem is solved but now I seem to be facing another, which is that whenever I sit down to try and finish it, I find it impossible. In the end, I get bored of staring at the computer screen and wander off to do something else.
I'm not sure whether I'm finding it impossible because:
A) it's a bad story and my subconscious is telling me to give it up
or
B) I've just reached a natural end of my fanfic writing career and my subconscious is telling me to give it up
I'd much rather think it was A) of course as there are still several stories I want to write, including the mirror story (an excerpt of which formed the September calendar post) and that series of Spike/Giles AU season 7 fics. However, there is no doubt that I've found fic writing extremely difficult this year and have agonised over everything even more than usual. Writing's difficult anyway and this year there are times when I've found it next to impossible. Not because I have writers' block (at least, I don't think so) but just because. Okay, have managed to write a few things, notably The Worst Journey in the World and Venus and Mars, but even those (in fact, especially those) have felt like wading through treacle.
Also, and even more worryingly, I think I might have be having an attack of the canons. This is a terrible ailment, during which when you're suffering from it, you suddenly find yourself going off the idea of non-canon pairings - a very unfortunate complaint for someone like me who mostly writes non-canon pairings.
I suspect this because, while trying to write this fic, I found myself unable to contemplate any circumstances in which Spike and Angel (who are actually a canon pairing, in fact, but the evidence is still barely more than subtext) would have sex. And it just went on from there. As you can imagine, I hope it wears off quickly and is just a symptom of my not wanting to write this fic.
Oh well, seems I was a bit precipitate in leaving that nunnery.
Also, as a comment on all the irritation Spike and Angel's refusal to have sex gave me, I was going to write a Spike and Angel as Buddhist Monks drabble, but then I got worried about offending Buddhists, so I haven't.