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I absolutely suck. I feel like my brain has been sucked out from the side of my head and now lies in a puddle of goo on the floor.

The last few weeks have been hectic as I've been working full-time and spending each weekend busy. Granted, I've managed to get Manchester, the Edinburgh festival, stuff in Glasgow, the Liverpool Mathew Street Carnival and a visit from [livejournal.com profile] squishypeanut into these weeks, but I've really been dying to take some tiem alone and to take up writing again.

My attempt at a novel has had another, oh... page added to it, which means if I continue at this rate then I'll have finished it by the time I'm fifty.

I also tried to get back into writing fanfiction. I had a really good idea and have written part of it, but now the ideas won't flow again.

Last night, it was around midnight and I decided that what I really needed was a nice relaxing bath to think. The setting couldn't have been much better; soft candlelight, lavender-scented water in a small Victorian-era bathroom. There is a beautiful fir tree that reaches up past our bathroom and it cast such interesting shadows in the silvery light of the full moon outside that I half expected Cathy to come scratching at my window.

And yet, despite all this, the only thing running through my head was:

My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
And they're like, it's better than yours
Damn right it's better than yours
I could teach you but I have to charge.


I am so disappointed in my brain, I feel like smacking it. But I think that will only serve to exacerbate the problem.

Date: 2004-09-05 03:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saffronlie.livejournal.com
Haha, bath.

Date: 2004-09-05 03:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rebness.livejournal.com
YOU!

I blame you, and the Scary Thing in the Attic. :p

Date: 2004-09-05 03:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saffronlie.livejournal.com
Totally like whatever!

Date: 2004-09-05 04:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saffronlie.livejournal.com
How can you even wash your hair properly if you don't have a shower?!

Date: 2004-09-06 05:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rebness.livejournal.com
I always wondered why grease kept dripping into my eyes...

Date: 2004-09-06 05:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saffronlie.livejournal.com
Ewww. I dub thee, Professor Snape.

Date: 2004-09-06 06:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rebness.livejournal.com
How best to put this?

Oh, yes:

I KEEEEEEL YOU!

>:-o

Date: 2004-09-06 06:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saffronlie.livejournal.com
:::is amused:::

Date: 2004-09-05 04:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] peregrinuscanus.livejournal.com
Do write, do write. Take time and sit down and just write. It doesn't matter what - just tie your muse to a chair and don't put your pen(cil) down until something is down on paper/on screen. Whether you bin it the next day/week/month is up to you.

Commiserating as one whose sentences are presently crawling out with all the enthusiasm of an ... exactly!

Date: 2004-09-06 06:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rebness.livejournal.com
I'm going to take your advice and try that. I swear my brain is all passive-aggressive and enjoys doing anything but let me write.

How is your writing going, anyway?

Date: 2004-09-07 01:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] peregrinuscanus.livejournal.com
It's all about scary nosey-grind-stone stuff as of tomorrow - I got an unsolicited call back from an agent last Friday (she'd read the m/s last April and spoken to me then) - wanting to see a re-draft. It means significant alteration to some of the second half, but I was going to do that anyway in order to re-submit to the publisher who is also interested in seeing it again (after meeting him last April).

Also stuck in the middle of the prequel, c.55,000 words, and wondering where the rest of the story is going to come from....

Date: 2004-09-05 08:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mekkare.livejournal.com
♥ the Milkshake!!! Spread the boobilicious love.

Date: 2004-09-06 05:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rebness.livejournal.com
*Jiggles*

:-D

Date: 2004-09-06 12:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jaffacakequeen.livejournal.com
if heathcliffe comes knocking let me know! you need a holiday

Date: 2004-09-06 05:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rebness.livejournal.com
Hahaha! Now, it would a different thing altogether if Heathcliff came a-knocking...

Dude! Don't tempt me on the holiday count. Have already booked for... you guessed it... Greece next year. But Easyjet have a sale on flights to Barcelona! :-o

*So tempted*

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