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

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. If you feel like you're retreading the same ground, you could challenge yourself to look at it from a new direction, try a different angle. Sometimes very artificial limitations can get my creative juices flowing: all dialog, no tags, no names, having a character do something completely out of character and figuring out why it's in character for them. Exercises for the brain, creativity, and communicative facility.

I generally find the only writing of mine that I truly dislike are the times when I've tried to force a story to go a direction contrary to its nature. If what I've got are torture and torment, that's what I dish out. Doesn't mean I have to write it, but trying to sculpt that piece of mental wood into something that's not in there just gets me one ugly-ass piece of scrap wood.

Maybe it's different for you. *shrugs*

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

That's why I played that game, to get pushes in new directions. That Tessa thing? I never wrote Tessa before. That was cool. I also rarely write Silas, for example. Not to mention I just haven't written HL in ages other than those lame drabbles. I ask for challenges all the time; I used to ask for such complex prompts and challenges, you wouldn't believe. I just feel so blah right now.

It is very similar for me. I just had a bad couple-of-months when it comes to certain muses.