Gratuitous whine
Apr. 13th, 2003 02:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
estepheiaI feel a strang mixture of happiness and exasperation. I've been following ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eliade's ongoing S/X story/outline/collage/sketchbook for the past few days and enjoying it very much. So good. I am green with envy. The way Anna spells out some things and remains cryptic and distant in other instances is compelling. Great story-telling. And never pretentious. I feel like I've learned a lot about writing simply by reading her stories. *Sigh*
The trouble is that some scenes and thoughts are starting to look very much like things I had planned for my Pandoraverse series. It's totally paralyzing.
I had a similar thing with Perdition, reading a story in anothe LJ that was incredibly close in tone and build-up to what I had planned for the next chapter. Hence the stucker than stuck-ness.
We have a whole boat-load of visitors coming in a few minutes. So, no writing today either. Maybe tonight. Keep your fingers crossed. Has anyone else noted how busy RL-phases coincide with creative moments? I always enter the writing-zone five minutes before visitors are due.
eliade's ongoing S/X story/outline/collage/sketchbook for the past few days and enjoying it very much. So good. I am green with envy. The way Anna spells out some things and remains cryptic and distant in other instances is compelling. Great story-telling. And never pretentious. I feel like I've learned a lot about writing simply by reading her stories. *Sigh*The trouble is that some scenes and thoughts are starting to look very much like things I had planned for my Pandoraverse series. It's totally paralyzing.
I had a similar thing with Perdition, reading a story in anothe LJ that was incredibly close in tone and build-up to what I had planned for the next chapter. Hence the stucker than stuck-ness.
We have a whole boat-load of visitors coming in a few minutes. So, no writing today either. Maybe tonight. Keep your fingers crossed. Has anyone else noted how busy RL-phases coincide with creative moments? I always enter the writing-zone five minutes before visitors are due.
