Crotcrank

[gilpin25]

Am so cranky/crotchety I could invent a whole new word for it. Like crotcrank. Actually I rather like that and I have to snap out of this soon because I'm normally the one who snaps other people out of it. Hubby is currently looking at me in a bewildered fashion and offering me the TV remote out of fear.

Anyway I've done the usual cheer-me-up things - wasted ages choosing a new David Tennant icon and then gone for one of the first ones I saw - and sighed over my metamorfic_moon story, which has given me no trouble whatsoever, apart from the fact that it's weird, I'm not in a romantic mood (which is a snag as it's my genre) and I've written 2000 words without a prompt in sight. It also shows every sign of wanting to be an epic, and I really didn't want it to be. So that's crotcranked me off as well.

Right, whinge over. If anyone hasn't seen the R/T picture drumher did, to illustrate one of mrstater's fics, then it's great and I just love the colours, expressions, hair and both sets of feet. The only thing I can draw is horses and they have yet to feature in any R/T story I've done. Now there's an idea... ;)

Comments

[jdbracknell.livejournal.com]

Hope you're feeling less crotcrank today. Have you ever tried Berroca to get you over the post-toilet hugging urgh-ness?

At least you've written something for the jumble. I'm currently languishing around the 250 word mark, owing to my boss popping in yesterday for a lengthy (and mostly unnecessary) meeting, and then my neighbour just popping in to say hello. Which was very sociable and nice of her, but not great for fic writing.

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

I'm okay, thank you; stopped the pathetic whining anyway and breakfast seems to have agreed with me. Berroca and I have a close and intimate relationship from time to time, though I've never used it as the great hangover pick-me-up, which a couple of friends swear it is. But it does help, as does getting past the three days of joy!

Don't worry about the jumble - have read through the crap (no pun intended) I wrote yesterday and been slicing and dicing this morning. There's also something seriously wrong with my plot as I have a beginning, an idea of the end, and no idea how to reach it. On the plus side, after all those icons, I'm feeling a touch more romantic. ;)

[jdbracknell.livejournal.com]

Although I do keep Berroca on stand-by for medicinal purposes, it is a great hangover cure. Second only to Salt and Vinegar crisps, in my book ;).

I quite often start with an ending and a beginning and have no idea how to get between the two. Sometimes I think I really should think these thing all the way through first, rather than just assuming inspiration will strike when I'm half-way, because it never, ever does....