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Jul. 27th, 2010 12:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightWriting is so bloody hard these days! I've been going over and over this trivial little piece, which is all I have for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
plot_wout_porn. It's only twelve pages, but I've lost count of the number of times I've revised it, and it still seems horribly clunky when I re-read.
I don't know if it's me being more fussy or what, but it wasn't always like this. Today, for instance, because I'm bored at work, on a whim, I went back and re-read the posts I've made on 27th July for every year I've had an LJ. Yes, a pointless exercise, I know, but I can't seem to utilise my time the way I did to do something creative.
In 2003, I didn't make a post on this day
In 2004, I was wittering on about a holiday I'd been on
In 2005, I made 4 posts on this day. Yes, 4. One was a Happy Birthday post (waves to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kassto), one was a topical post about Sikh tourists from Birmingham (UK) being forced off a New York tour bus at gunpoint by police because someone had thought they looked 'suspicious'. One was a fic rec, and one was a fic I'd written myself - a piece of absurdist porny fluff that that I'm sure I banged off in one hour flat.
In 2006, I made two posts on this day: akassto birthday post and one about birdwatching (at least I'm consistent, I suppose).
In 2007, I made 6 posts on this day (I obviously had no life at the time, or too much time on my hands, not sure which): yet anotherkassto birthday post, two sections of the fic that would become Age of Unreason but which I called in draft Vampire Slayers of Gor (yeah, hilarious!), one a review of a Buffy comic (no 5, The Chain, which I didn't like then and still don't, because I think it's dull and preachy), and two squeeing posts about Angel comics news from Comic Con that year.
In 2008, I made 4 posts on this day again, three sections of Age of Unreason (because yes, I was still writing it a year later), plus a not very squeeing post on news about the Angel comics from Comic Con that year. See? I was learning my lesson about the comics.
In 2009, I made one post - a technical question about changing banners on your LJ layout (something I still can't do, sadly). If Comic Con had just happened, I must have felt I had nothing to say about it, and I wasn't writing anything either.
And this year, I'm writing this, which, now I've finished it, seems the most pointless 27th July entry yet, and doesn't at all address the point of why fic writing has become so much harder, even if the years when I was writing/posting fic on this day outnumber the ones where I wasn't.
But at least I still said happy birthday tokassto. :)
So how is your July 27th?
plot_wout_porn. It's only twelve pages, but I've lost count of the number of times I've revised it, and it still seems horribly clunky when I re-read.I don't know if it's me being more fussy or what, but it wasn't always like this. Today, for instance, because I'm bored at work, on a whim, I went back and re-read the posts I've made on 27th July for every year I've had an LJ. Yes, a pointless exercise, I know, but I can't seem to utilise my time the way I did to do something creative.
In 2003, I didn't make a post on this day
In 2004, I was wittering on about a holiday I'd been on
In 2005, I made 4 posts on this day. Yes, 4. One was a Happy Birthday post (waves to
kassto), one was a topical post about Sikh tourists from Birmingham (UK) being forced off a New York tour bus at gunpoint by police because someone had thought they looked 'suspicious'. One was a fic rec, and one was a fic I'd written myself - a piece of absurdist porny fluff that that I'm sure I banged off in one hour flat.In 2006, I made two posts on this day: a
kassto birthday post and one about birdwatching (at least I'm consistent, I suppose).In 2007, I made 6 posts on this day (I obviously had no life at the time, or too much time on my hands, not sure which): yet another
kassto birthday post, two sections of the fic that would become Age of Unreason but which I called in draft Vampire Slayers of Gor (yeah, hilarious!), one a review of a Buffy comic (no 5, The Chain, which I didn't like then and still don't, because I think it's dull and preachy), and two squeeing posts about Angel comics news from Comic Con that year.In 2008, I made 4 posts on this day again, three sections of Age of Unreason (because yes, I was still writing it a year later), plus a not very squeeing post on news about the Angel comics from Comic Con that year. See? I was learning my lesson about the comics.
In 2009, I made one post - a technical question about changing banners on your LJ layout (something I still can't do, sadly). If Comic Con had just happened, I must have felt I had nothing to say about it, and I wasn't writing anything either.
And this year, I'm writing this, which, now I've finished it, seems the most pointless 27th July entry yet, and doesn't at all address the point of why fic writing has become so much harder, even if the years when I was writing/posting fic on this day outnumber the ones where I wasn't.
But at least I still said happy birthday to
kassto. :) So how is your July 27th?