Writer's Block: Life is a masquerade

[filthgoblin]

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I am not planning to dress up for Halloween in the real life sense. Although I love fancy dress, there's nowhere to go this year and I'm sure it will be a night like any other. Halloween celebrations are growing in the UK, but it's nowhere near as popular here as it is in the US. Trick or Treat tends to be less of a family and community thing where houses are brightly lit and doors are opened by smiling adults with buckets of treats for kids escorted by parents. Here it's more like suspcious homeowners keeping all the lights off, hoping the marauding gangs of teenagers in dead Presidents masks will believe they genuinely are out and won't egg their houses.

I am, however, planning a costume for karaokegal's Come As Your Not multifandom fic party. I've previously explained the premise, which in brief is to write something that's outside your normal comfort zone and produce some fic that's different to what you'd normally do.

I've let on various hints as to what my 'costume' will be this year. There are a few people who know the details, and they are all my fic enablers who have been holding my hand through what has proved to be a very challenging process. I'm hitting the wall hard at the moment and the last two nights I've only managed to grind out a painful 130 words. I know I'm obsessing too much about getting it perfect in the first edit even though I know I have a superbeta waiting in the wings to help me hammer it into shape, but I'm realising just how much writing something outside my own comfort zone makes me feel uncomfortable. Like, duh. You'd have thought that much would be obvious, wouldn't you?

Challenge is to get the first draft finished THIS WEEKEND so I can have plenty of time for my beta to kick my ass and help me make it into the good fic I know it can be.

Comments

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I can't wait to read it, whatever it is!

I was going to do a Gwen-bash fic, but I can't even do it in a spoofy way, since some people don't understand irony and would probably think I was serious.

Maybe RPS since I don't usually write it except on the anon kink meme? IDK.

[filthgoblin.livejournal.com]

I'm doing something in a fandom I've never written for, with two characters I've never seen written together at all (even though I think their chemistry is off the charts), tackling one if my biggest kink squicks. Nothing like a challenge, huh?

I just need to get over my perfectionism, hammer out a rough draft and ship it off to beta.

[licklepickle.livejournal.com]

Oooo, my first writers block answer thingy...exciting!
*gestures towards own page for answer to FG's questions*

[filthgoblin.livejournal.com]

I been and done and reddit. I didn't even know you frequented this journal when I wasn't writing filth *blushes*