Write every day - Day 17

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Inspired by current circumstances: Are there any conditions, emotional or otherwise, under which you find it especially challenging to write? Does happiness make your muse go into hibernation? Does stress make you less likely to write?

For me, if I'm struggling with some big, RL issue, I find it harder to focus on the words until the situation, whatever it is, is resolved. Long-term stress isn't an issue, but short-term shocks or sudden disasters make it difficult for me to sit still (I'm a pacer) and write.

Tally:
Welcome
Day 1: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yantantether, ysilme (16/16)
Day 2: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yantantether, ysilme (15/16)
Day 3: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yantantether, ysilme (14/16)
Day 4: alexcat, alexseanchai, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (14/16)
Day 5: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/16)
Day 6: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/16)
Day 7: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/16)
Day 8: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (13/16)
Day 9: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, tinx_r, ysilme (15/17)
Day 10: alexcat, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (14/17)
Day 11: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 12>: alexcat, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (14/17)
Day 13: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, user name="navaan">, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtthesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 14: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 15: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 16: alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (14/17)

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ysilme here: 1k fic for me, with about 700 words of it written on my phone in the morning - I have a new phone my bluetooth keyboard interacts with much better, and seem to be able to type on it now as quick as on my computer. Yay!

sylvanwitch here: I managed 703 words in between bouts of stress-crying and financial panic. *sighs* (I think everything is ultimately going to work out. I will not be 100% confident of that, however, until the money from the house sale is in the bank.)

Comments

[sylvanwitch]

I hope your stress over reveals eases soon for you, especially since, as you say here, it has an adverse effect on your writing.

Like you, I find myself retreating into fanfiction sometimes when things are especially difficult for longer stretches (as opposed to sudden emergencies, when I'm not able to focus as well). I do love a good angsty hurt/comfort on those occasions, though sometimes, if I'm feeling particularly dark, I'll let the snakes in my brain do the writing, in which case, what's produced is typically very dark indeed.

For fluff, though, I almost always have to be in a happy, upbeat mood, or I somehow end up sliding into snark and angst instead. ;-)