November Writing and December Plans

[osprey_archer]

Did not get much writing done this month. Feeling discouraged about writing in general, to be honest. I’ve been struggling to write (so many of this year’s writing posts are some variation on “didn’t get much writing done this month”!), and my royalties are considerably lower than last year, and it’s all very frustrating.

I have decided that for whatever reason I am simply not Ready to write Sleeping Beauty, so rather than continuing to bang my head against that wall, I’m going to set the project aside for at least a year, probably more, it seems optimistic to imagine that I’ll be able to stand the sight of it after a mere year has passed. I remind myself yet again that Ursula K. Le Guin had to sit on Tehanu for eighteen years before she was ready to write it. Eighteen years!

Have been noodling on a couple of projects but who knows if they will come to anything.

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Anyway, in years past when I have been struggling to write, I have found prompt memes really helpful. (The Time-Traveling Popcorn Ball originally grew from a prompt meme.) So I thought I would post one!

Tell me a little about a winter story I haven't written, and I'll give you several sentences from that story.

Winter doesn't have to mean holiday (although it certainly can!). Think snow, icicles, hot beverages by toasty fires, sledding and sleigh rides and being trapped by blizzards and unfortunate incidents involving holly dryads.

I will write ficlets for most any fandom I've written before (Captain America, Queen's Thief, various Sutcliffs, American Girl... I haven't actually written a Biggles or Worrals fic before but I've been thinking about trying) or for my own books, or for a completely original story.

Comments

[rachelmanija]

Biggles or Worrals waits out a snowstorm inside their plane. It's okay, they have someone to huddle for warmth with.

[rachelmanija]

PS. Biggles Fest! https://sholio.dreamwidth.org/1461292.html

[oracne]

The nights last most of the day in the winter. What do the people do?

[asakiyume]

I'm sorry about the discouragement--I *loved* the things you published this year, but I realize that's not the same as sales.

Prompt: Even when the snow was falling fastest, they could see by the light of the porch lamp wolves circling round and round the cottage. Keeping them prisoner--or protecting them from harm? That was the question.

[kore]

Gennady and Daniel's first Christmas together. I want to see Gennady's reaction to American Xmas consumerism!

(lol yes when I OTP I OTP forever)

[skygiants]

I would love several sentences of Kay being reluctantly dragged out to do a winter activity that he isn't very good at!

[littlerhymes]

Please tell me about Mordred, WWII child sent to the country version.

[threeplusfire]

Writing motivation is hard! (I recently introduced a friend to Honeytrap and we've been capslock yelling at each other about it a lot.)

Thinking of a winter story about the long nights and short days, the ever present cold and the uncertainty of waiting for someone to arrive. Frost on stone, the comfort of a fire.