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[rthstewart]

TQSiT is going very, very badly.  I'm in full, I sux mode, blah blah blah.  Such a bore.  At this rate it will be 4th of July because it's just that bad.

But then I read animus_wyrmis  LJ prompt from the NFFR Spring Challenge -- Give a Pevensie A Friend and even if it is yet one more procrastination, I had been meaning to do this prompt and it just hasn't happened (see above angst wallowing).  So I've added one (TSG Peter) and I'm going to start another and oh do come and play.  The Pevensies are lonely and need fun, cool, Spare Oom friends. Won't you help them?

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[the_rck]

::hugs:: I'll wait as long as it takes.

Sometimes, writing is hard.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[autumnia]

I read both yours and metonomia's and both were good. For me, it's so hard to write Pevensies with a friend because there's nothing to work with from the books other than the little bit about Majorie Preston.

I loved the bit about Peter, by the way. I suppose that is exactly why he could never work in zoology or anything related to scientifically studying animals. As much as Richard would love him to get more involved in this stuff, Peter really can't deal with how people in this world study the Good Beasts.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Awww, thanks. I had really intended to do these. I have a silly one in my head where Susan and Agnes meet in a diner and Susan is all "being negro is not contagious" to the person who tries to seat her in the whites only section. She brings Agnes a Laura Ingalls Wilder book and Agnes talks about wanting to write Little Women fan fiction where all the March girls are black and Jo marries Laurie. As for Edmund, he's got an American boy he meets in the Cambridge library whose father is there as part of the advance team with Eisenhower. Very cocky, obnoxious sort, but they get to be good friends in that super competitive sort of way that boys can be. And he helps Edmund figure out some of the American political system that is in Susan's letters. Errrrm... which assumes importance in Part 3 which at this rate I'll never get too because Chapter 20 sux so horribly.

Right then.

[autumnia]

Aghh. Part 3, Part 3! No more thinking about it. We need a plan for you to mow down the mountain that is Writer's Block and get past Chapter 20.

Sometimes, I find reading (or re-reading) other people's stories help. It could be just a word in some random paragraph that will light a spark to go back to one's own story. Or just stop writing fanfic for a while helps too.

Edmund and cocky American boys..... Edmund should be able to win hands down.

[autumnia]

One more thing that is very interesting that just came up on a blog I subscribe to... and perhaps inspire you a little bit:

And the answer was Aslan

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Aww, so nice. Thanks for the links. And as for your comment, We need a plan for you to mow down the mountain that is Writer's Block and get past Chapter 20, it's not so much a block as it is that what I am writing is just bad. I feel like something happened in the last two chapters of TQSiT that was a big disappointment and there's no energy left to finish it, in either me or the reader. I've been so poor at judging what readers wanted and it seems the disconnect is only growing. or something. In the meantime, I've written a whole scene in my head involving Peter in the pub and a nice old lady who runs it and he's got nails between his teeth and a hammer in his pocket and Peter's going around and putting up pictures of the pub owner's dead husband and sons because they keep falling down and the glass is breaking. And Peter knows the name of every man on the Crew team that Animus just invented, and he knows their parents names and who lost older brothers at Dunkirk, Normandy, Malaya, and in Operation Market Garden. Errrm. Stopping now.

[min023.livejournal.com]

Well maybe procrastination is the better answer, anyway. Don't know about you, but my father always said (and still does) that if you're having trouble with something, then leave it, go do something else, then come back to it later when you're fresher. So go ahead and procrastinate - if the comment fics that you're all writing are any guide, then we'll have just as much fun with those while we're waiting. Anyway, a degree of anticipation is good for us, isn't it? : )

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Thank you my friend. In the meantime, you can check out my hijacking of Animus' thread with TSG outtakes: http://animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com/34335.html

[min023.livejournal.com]

Yep, did that - love them all.

[varnafinde.livejournal.com]

I think min023 is right - it might help to write something different for a while. Follow all those other ideas you started telling us about, and hijack that thread (to our utter delight!) with even more ideas. (I also loved them all ...)

You're still world-building, and perhaps something in your new writing will mow down that other mountain, whatever it's made of.