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[ranger_i]

I'm doing it again. Or rather, I'm not doing it, and that's the problem. The t_m stuff is just not happening for me right now.

I'm going to have to let some of the muses go. One at least, maybe two. Or more.

And I'm avoiding making the decision any way I can. Right now I'm turning a bunch of the old entries from friends only to public. Because I almost can't face this right now.

I love the muses, but I can't do this anymore. I can't pretend I know what I'm doing, holding onto these muses when I can't write a single thing for them, or at least that's how it seems.

I'm starting to miss pellaeon's endless angst. It annoyed me, but the stuff I wrote with him was good, for the most part.

Actually, no. I take that back. The problem I had with Gil is the same problem I'm having with some of the others right now. There's this one angle they've got, and once you exhaust it, what do you do?

Right now I have:

Bella - "I'm evil. Eeeevil!"
Galen - "I am moody."
Irina - "I am invisible. Oh, and misunderstood."
Anna - "I'm just boring."

I'm torn. I want to be able to write these four, but it's just not happening. So I'm torn between keeping them and swapping out one or more of them for someone else. Who else? Well, I could make a list, but there are certainly options.

I think I could maybe use some advice here.

Comments

[shaman-x.livejournal.com]

Can't write at all? Or just can't write those muses? 'cause if it's big-time writers block, I don't think changing the characters is gonna help much. You could try setting yourself specific structural things -- say, three paragraphs of one-hundred words offering three possible (incomplete?) answers to a question -- as a way of guiding your writing. Or, say, set timelimits, and just post whatever you've done after fifteen minutes or an hour or whatever.

Neo's pretty one-note (and I can't for the life of me write him first person) but... Have you tried jumping about in their history for responses? I mean, twist the topics to your own ends; take their import, "loss", "respect", "pleasure", whatver, and use that as a springboard rather than being specific. And disregard linear time. Tell us about Bella at school, the Youngest Daughter of the House of Black; about Bella Black before Azkaban, Bella LeStrange after... Anna as a ship core, Anna as John's wife, before and after... Talk about other people from their POV. Sure, it's kinda cheating, but give us Irina's view of Jack's answer to the question, say. Show us Anna through Galen's eyes.

Or, I dunno, chuck three away and concentrate on just one. Fill in all the gaps in their history. It could be fun to, say, take Irina and write her as an unreliable narrator of spy stories, see how much of what she tells you, what she tells herself is true? Or have Galen, surfing the tech, discover the global unconciousness of the technomages, their history writ in molecular machines.

[ranger-i.livejournal.com]

Just can't write these muses. Yeah, if it was writers' block overall trading them out wouldn't do much, would it? :)

Thanks for the suggestions- they rock. I think what I need is a new perspective to work with for a while, and you've got some great ideas here. With any luck one or two of these will work for me, and save at least one or two of the pups from this mess.

Thanks again. :)

[shaman-x.livejournal.com]

Yer welcome. Hope it helps! :)