jam tomorrow and jam yesterday

[prillalar]

Wrote a drabble for the slash100 Danger challenge.

Jam, Merry/Pippin, G

Writing the drabble was a reward for working on a larger story I've got cooking.

Why is it that I have a hobby that I have to force myself to do most of the time? I'm working on a fair-sized project (well, for me, anyhow) which I started, in part, to procrastinate on a vid which I started to procrastinate on a larger writing project. And now I want to write little drabbles and such because they are so much easier.

So, I make the rules. "You must write 150 words before you can check your email." "If you finish this scene, you may write a drabble." "If you don't get 1000 words done this weekend, no-one will love you ever again."

Rules help. How do you make yourself write? Or vid or draw or whatever other creative things you do.

And now, to shower. But only if I use the time to plan the next scene in my fic.

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[resonant8.livejournal.com]

There was a period when I thought I was going to have to go get a job in order to have something to do other than work on the novel.

The past two weeks I've had good luck with the technique of saying to myself, "If you write 500 words of the novel, then as a reward you can write some slash." A pretty neat trick, since before that I was working on neither the novel nor the slash, but instead spending most of my time playing "Alchemy."

Oh, and I leave the house and leave the laptop behind, because it's a big box of procrastination. So now I'm back to writing longhand in a little spiral notebook.

[prillalar]

Tricky you, playing two projects off against each other!

I recently made another foray into the world of longhand, but it didn't work out. I can outline or make notes that way, but my writing method is just too optimized to BBEdit. Plus I can never read my writing when it's time to transcribe it.