I share thought process

[sparklebutch]

I'm writing the prompts, I'm writing.

I do have a problem though. Some of the ones I got from the meme, plus some of the ones I get from my usual prompts community, they all lead me in one direction. Keep picking at the same wound.

With that, I have two problems. A, just how many times can I write the same basic story obsessively before everyone is sick and tired of it, and B, well, some of the things would be perfect for happy smut, and all I get is torture and torment and lack of joy. Which would probably bring... sharper reactions in readers, maybe, but, I don't *want* to write misery.

Comments

[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

While you tend to write characters who lean toward angst, all characters have happy points in their lives, maybe try writing from that time in their lives?

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

...Uh..

Yes, I do and have written happy points. My characters aren't that big on angst. My problem is *currently* with one certain event that I keep focusing on, and the problem isn't that I *want* to focus on it, it's that it's brought into focus.

I'm not sure how much your read here, or what's your spoiler policy, so I will spare you the details. Let me just say I have written quite a lot around that event in recent weeks, angsty and happy, and my problem right now is that all the prompts I'm given take me back to it, rather than send me away.

[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

I gather that you're talking about the Buffy comic spoiler about your favorite character? I don't read the comics so spoiling me is not a big thing. In fact, I have a fascination with spoilers from fandoms I've either been in or am on the fringes of. (Wow, do I know so much about Dr. Who and Torchwood, despite only being a Sarah Jane Adventures fan...)

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

I also gather spoilers and usually seem to know much about what's going on in things I don't follow, which is why this was an even bigger shock to find no one told me - even after I heard about it and looked, it seemed not many in general bothered discussing it.