(teamwork) *tears hair out*

[askerian]

WHY DOES THIS TEAMWORK SCENE SUCK. WHY. WHY DOESN'T IT WANT ME TO WRITE IT. WHY DO I HAVE TO PULL OUT EVERY WORD WITH PINCERS, ONE BY ONE. WHY DOES IT SOUND STILTED AND BORING AND EMPTY.

ARGH.

I will bite the first person to tell me to just let it rest and wait to get inspired. I've waited a month now, and it isn't working. If I just sit on my ass and do nothing, I'll die of old age before I get it done.

Other people can write even without the divine touch of the "ZOMG MUST NOTE THAT DOWN QUICK" faerie. I should try that too. I can sit down and make myself write instead of waiting to be swamped by the bunnies; I've done it before. So AUGH to myself.

whyyyy did i think it was a good idea to write that goddamn dinner scene, whyyyyyyyyyy.



God, I will be so happy once Naruto's chapter is done. End of Teamwork 2!

I'll be able to write a couple of one-shots to adress a few issues (such as Naruto with the Inuzuka, the "hay by the way we're a thresome" with the other Rookie Nine, Sakura training with Tsunade, and stuff like that) before my next ZOMG PLOT (aka, the chuunin exam) which will require another multiparter. And i'm thinking that the one-shots don't even really need to be written in order. Muahahahaha. *__*

... Say... Gaara's going to be at the Chuunin exam, right? if he's the Kazekage even in the Teamwork universe... *.*; *ponderponderponder*


... of course if I ever want to arrive there one day, I need to fucking get that part DONE AND OVER WITH. *snarl*

Comments

[askerian]

that's a good idea actually. *sigh*

(ahaha. yes plz. though i assumed you were busy with exam stuff, which is why I didn't whine at you. XD)

Hmm, i'm not much for jpop-y things, but if you've got a few good songs, mmmyes, gimmegimme. :3

[toki-usagi.livejournal.com]

Well it could certainly be much worse. At least you don't have an agent breathing down your neck about finishing a novel, doing publicity shit, figuring out if your contract with the publisher is going to be extended...

But w00t for being able to finish it, even if it's only two words a day.

[askerian]

yeah, it could be much worse. I could get in an accident and get braindead. =_= Somehow that doesn't help.

[toki-usagi.livejournal.com]

*sends chocolate and pr0n*

[rayemars.livejournal.com]

Since I don't know exactly how the scene's supposed to go, this might not work, but if it's really becoming that difficult for you to write, could you just put it into a sort of retrospective explication? Like, don't throw out the stuff you have leading up to it, but once they arrive at the house, just have a few paragraphs describing how things went rather than writing the whole scene out?

[askerian]

I tried that before, and not only I couldn't see the scee well enough to summarize it right, but it was very anticlimatic. I needed Sasuke to feel very very pressured, so he could explode in the next scene, so I had to scrape it. T_T

It's so ironic that the only way for me to know what happens in that scene is to actually write it out, instead of the other way around. u_u; I have a few abstract results, like "sasuke must feel this way afterwards" but i don't have the actual actions giving this result, if that makes sense.

[stripedpetunia.livejournal.com]

It's so easy to start stories, and so fucking goddamn HARD to finish them. I weep tears of sympathy all over you not that it will help the words flow again.

___(;_;)___ <---puddle of sympathy tears
.' ` . ' . ' .` ' <---dripping sympathy tears
o=(>.<;)=o <----Asuka :3

[askerian]

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.........

*dhed* XD awwwwwwww!

[lyraelin.livejournal.com]

You know what I do when I want to write? I break out prompts. Like, I'll think of sentences I REALLY want to include, and work around them. I know it's not like...I don't know, professional or anbything...but it seems to work with me.

Or...I play out the scene in my head, no words, just watching the scene. It's kind of like watching a movie in your head and then transcribing it.

[lyraelin.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm so coherent that all of that made sense and I didn't have any typos or anything like that.

:: end sarcasm ::

[muffytaj.livejournal.com]

Gah, I hate it when that happens. Do you have anyone on a chat program you can throw random lines at and ask them for help with? Sometimes that gets my brain cells going. Or bullet points.

But yeah, it's really hard to break through that kind of block. *offers hugs*

[nacchi-camui.livejournal.com]

*sends you inspiration magical viiiibes*

[crazy-toffee.livejournal.com]

Erm...er... uuuh... *can think of no way in which to help* So I offer... DISTRACTION!

Check out this page and the hilarious chronicles/editorials of the guy who maintains it? http://www.outpostnine.com/editorials/teacher.html

*is stuck on the idea of dancing Sasukes now*

[complexphoenix.livejournal.com]

This is an awesome link. Thanks a ton :)

De-Lurk.

[(Anonymous)]

You say: "I will bite the first person to tell me to just let it rest and wait to get inspired."

I say: "Let it rest and wait to get inspired."

I AM TEH FIRST!

Bite me please? XD ..Yes, I'm different.

[maldoror-gw.livejournal.com]

I'd send you inspiration except I've run dry today...

I think someone else's advice was good *points further up the list* Just write down a few sentences/dialogue that you know you want in there, then just slodge through it line by line to get there, and don't expect it to be Perfect with a P, just get there. I find that either I get inspired halfway through, or else I don't and it's crap but there's at least some of it worth keeping, and I'm generally then encouraged to rework the rest. The more you have down, the easier it tends to get.

As for Gaara being there, it's not an obligation for the Kages to participate, even though they can. In the Chuunin exam in the series, Oro!Kazekage showed up for plot-related reasons, but nobody else did (granted, by then there were only Sand and Leaf nin left, but they all thought the Sound guy would still be there, and nobody wondered where the Sound Kage was...) Um, make sense? But if you want Gaara in there, by all means ^_^

[askerian]

heh. i do take notes on the dialogue when i know what's going to happen. the problem with this scene is that i have notions of what they have to say, but it doesn't become a chain of replies, it doesn't work as "this question gets that answer which brings blahblahblah..." yet. it's just... "so they gotta mention this, this and that so that sasuke can feel this and that". it's not a scene. T_T and when i try just going with the flow it ends up going into different directions than what i need. ;_;

i was just thinking about Gaara because at some point Temari is going to drop by, if only so I can have ShikaTema and TemaIno. And who says Temari says Gaara and Kankuro. It's a bit weird that in such a long fic Gaara wouldn't be mentioned even once. he's important to Naruto. *ponders*

... by the way. curse you. been reading the arrangement again. bloody heero muse is staring at me again now. all your fault.

[kiwi-socks.livejournal.com]

If you want Sasuke to be angry, maybe you could try taking from your own experiences (Mrs. Haruno not-so-covertly pressuring them to get a citizen's job?, and then move on from there. Like someone suggesting that Naruto not take much part in the relationship, or something equally pissing-off-ish.

[askerian]

~_~ I want him upset and self-disappointed, not angry. I also don't want them to burn bridge, and can't go against my own characterization of the parents to make either of them that blatantly nosey or invasive, otherwise they're not characters, they're plot devices.

i'm sorry about how it sounds, thank you for the suggestions, i'm really glad you tried to help, just too headachy to formulate this more diplomatically ^^;

[kiwi-socks.livejournal.com]

That's fine, you didn't at all come across as offensive ^__^

Sorry I couldn't be of much help ;__;