Best meme EVER!

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Snagged from snickfic and deird1:

Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

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Hmmm, I don't know. I was thinking maybe it was some sort of psychological thing, like I'd psyched myself out of writing. If I had to put a metaphor to it, it kind of feels like a fist clenching tightly in my brain, and the tighter it squeezes, the more whatever I'm trying to grab slips out of my grasp. Almost like I'm trying too hard to make it happen, but I don't know how to try less than taking a break from writing altogether, which I've already done. I don't know how to relax the fist.

Or maybe I'll try scrapbooking.

(Actually, I do like scrapbooking, and have three sitting on my shelf. I was looking forward to doing the pictures from my San Francisco vacation... except I never went.)

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FWIW, I've never found the theory of trying to write through a writing block to work. I always hate what I end up writing, and it doesn't seem to get me back to writing good stuff any faster than if I hadn't written at all. So I totally get your decision to do something other than just "Try harder!"

*wishes she had something more useful to say*

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Yeah, I haven't, either. I'm not a fan of "Just write, even if it's crap - you can fix it later," because once I put words on the page, it becomes very difficult for me to see it any other way. And if those words are crappy, that's not a good thing.

*shrug* I dunno. I don't expect anyone to come up with a solution at this point.