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When a scene isn't working
Jun. 2nd, 2025 09:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melagan
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When a scene just isn't working for you.
You've got a great idea only something isn't coming together quite right. A lot of plot bunnies end up gathering dust because of this very thing.
So, what do you do? That's a hell of a good question. What? It's not like I have the answer to it.
Although I do recall a little bit of advice I've found helpful. Backtrack through your work and find the place where it went off the rails. That's the point where it needs to be fixed.
Not that I have ever made my beloved characters have sex and forgotten to get their pants off first. *coff*
May 2025 Reads!
Jun. 1st, 2025 05:18 pmtjs_whatnotHAPPY PRIDE!
I hope to come back some time in the near future and talk about things and stuff. But until then, here, have some book recs.
( May 2025 )
So, what is everyone reading for Pride? So far, I'm just set to finish:
*When The Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley
*Even Though I Knew the End by C.I. Polk
*Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
*Missing Page by Cat Sebastian
*A Destiny of Dragons by TJ Klune
And then we'll see where the muse takes me. Recs, of course, always welcome. ❤️❤️
I hope to come back some time in the near future and talk about things and stuff. But until then, here, have some book recs.
( May 2025 )
So, what is everyone reading for Pride? So far, I'm just set to finish:
*When The Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley
*Even Though I Knew the End by C.I. Polk
*Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
*Missing Page by Cat Sebastian
*A Destiny of Dragons by TJ Klune
And then we'll see where the muse takes me. Recs, of course, always welcome. ❤️❤️
Sungkyunkwan Scandal - Pimping Slides
May. 28th, 2025 10:48 pmamediaI made a set of these a few years ago and lost them in a computer crash. So I made new ones, because this deliciousness needs to be shared!
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Fannish 50 Challenge 2025: Post # 17: Postal Mail from Fen
May. 27th, 2025 05:17 pmride_4everApril-May mail from fen!
The USPS damaged one of my pieces of mail so badly that I couldn't read the signature because that part of the postcard was torn off -- and it's a wonder that the postcard ever got to me at all since the part with my last name and half of my street address and half of my zip code and the entirety of my state was torn off -- but I recognized the style of the message as one written byelayna, an amusing comment about having a vision of Fraser gaining some kind of super-powers caused by getting an electrical shock.
From "across the pond"smallhobbit sent me a card for "National Greeting Card Day".
minoanmiss sent me two postcards for "National Poetry Month," one with a poem by Emily Dickinson and one with a poem by Mina Loy.
My "MFU cousin"vysila sent me a box full of zines.
And ION about the USPS: two cards that I mailed to fen at the winter holidays in 2024 were returned to me by the USPS in 2025. One was a fairly quick return, as the card I sent tolauramcewan came back to me within one month. The other card, the one to ver_verlain and Rebel, was returned to me FOUR MONTHS after I had mailed it and it had stripes of black marker on it and the "Title IX" stamp was defaced.
The USPS damaged one of my pieces of mail so badly that I couldn't read the signature because that part of the postcard was torn off -- and it's a wonder that the postcard ever got to me at all since the part with my last name and half of my street address and half of my zip code and the entirety of my state was torn off -- but I recognized the style of the message as one written by
elayna, an amusing comment about having a vision of Fraser gaining some kind of super-powers caused by getting an electrical shock.From "across the pond"
smallhobbit sent me a card for "National Greeting Card Day".minoanmiss sent me two postcards for "National Poetry Month," one with a poem by Emily Dickinson and one with a poem by Mina Loy.My "MFU cousin"
vysila sent me a box full of zines.And ION about the USPS: two cards that I mailed to fen at the winter holidays in 2024 were returned to me by the USPS in 2025. One was a fairly quick return, as the card I sent to
lauramcewan came back to me within one month. The other card, the one to ver_verlain and Rebel, was returned to me FOUR MONTHS after I had mailed it and it had stripes of black marker on it and the "Title IX" stamp was defaced.
Distraction
May. 27th, 2025 10:41 ammelagan
I might have ideas aplenty, but when it comes to sitting down and putting the work into it....
This post is an excellent example. I could have pulled up my current WiP but oh-no instead I hunted down a picture of distracted prairie dogs for this post.
*headdesk*
It's a very fine line between distraction and procrastination.
