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Comment on Apples & Gin sequel: Apples & Gin: Animal Crackers by Jenna

Jenna — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:41:48 +0000

Thank you! I’ll definitely write their wedding at some point — if there will be more than that, I don’t know yet.

Comment on Apples & Gin sequel: Apples & Gin: Animal Crackers by Jill

Jill — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:39:53 +0000

Hello, Love these guys too!! I hope we get more of them!! (hint hint)

Comment on Now available: Chiaroscuro by Jenna

Jenna — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:59:29 +0000

Aw, thank you! (Would you believe I just now saw this comment?)

Comment on this is a self-indulgent post by Jenna

Jenna — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:55:56 +0000

I just keep telling myself one word at a time. It’s working, a little: I’ve gone up from a few hundred words a day to over a thousand over the weekend, which I’m counting as a triumph.

Mostly I’m trying not to flail over deadlines. If I think about the story and not when it’s due, that seems to help a bit.

Comment on this is a self-indulgent post by Angie

Angie — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:11:40 +0000

My June pretty much sucked too (despite having signed up for a 25K word challenge [wince]) so sympathies.

I agree with you about writer’s block. I talk about being blocked at times, but that’s just an umbrella term for being stuck, being stressed, being depressed, whatever.

One of my problems, which has “blocked” me for long periods more than once, is when I owe something but am having a problem with it. Whatever the problem might be, the story’s not going to budge until I figure out what’s wrong and how to fix it. But feeling guilty about being late or whatever also keeps me from writing anything else. [headdesk] I lost most of 2008 to that; I wrote only a few thousand words from February to September of that year, and it was all because of one story I owed someone but had hit a roadblock on. I felt too guilty to work on anything else, as though any time I spent writing should be spent on the story I was late with. :/

I’m aware of this now and am getting better at deliberately setting aside whatever I’m stalled on and working on other things, just so I’m writing something, but it’s still hard. Guilt can be a horribly debilitating emotion, and I’m not even Catholic.

Angie