Saturday morning and another week lost to where ever our lost time ends up. Many have said it before but time really does give the illusion of speeding up as we hurtle towards the finish line. I seem to recall...foggy recollections thanks to the years of the less than stellar care I've given my brain cells...that days, way back when, seemed to stretch endlessly from the first waking moment until I would be dragged, sometimes kicking and screaming(or so it seemed) to sleep and now they seem to pass in the blink of an eye...ok, honestly, maybe not that fast...make it three blinks. And, with the days slipping, I remain blocked...they're there...the words...I just can't seem to get them to flow from the fingers to the keyboard.
Got some good news...OM finished his round of chemo and says he's feeling a little better...even threatened to start excercising...hoping for the best for the wascally old wabbit.
I threatened last time to name some more names...writers who's work I've been enjoying lately...since I seem to be unable to enjoy my own...well, new stuff anyway...once again, this isn't a full list, just a few names I remembered to jot down when I was liking their stuff...uplink2, ninjavanish, gochuckgo, supesfan18, katemck, crumby, littlecandyman, the pretender91, the kyrien, rusty74, dettiot, charahfan44, shfire, mr.88, angusmacnabb...if you're reading this list then give em a try.
Well, lucky me, customers approach. JT
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
The continuing adventures of the great blocked head...
Another monday and nothing seems to have changed. I sit down to write and nothing happens...the ideas are still right where I left them the day before...and the day before that....and the day before that...just can't seem to get them moving. Had hoped that adding a fantastic chapter from DocInOz the the Sarah Walker:Broken Beyond Repair Challenge would help me kick something loose but, alas, no such luck. The problem is I don't know what the problem is...how very insightful...I know, I know...somewtimes the sheer staggering power of my intellect leaves me reeling in self adoration...for about ten seconds and then I re-set myself to norm, hoping that that's waht I need to get stuff moving again...and, so far, not happening.
Been reading some of the newer additions to the ChuckFF and there's some really good stuff, both from the usual suspects(Frea, Quistie, Doc, Mia and many I should mention but can't because I'm blanking) and from some who are posting their first stories(once again, blanking on names but I'll have a list the next time I post here, just in case anyone actually is interested in what I'm reading)...also reading some over at Castle...and still waiting, patiently, for GLEE torture porn...somebody out there better get busy...I know I can't be the only one waiting for that...c'mon...Kurt killed when his sybian(is that the right word?) short circuts, leaving him a quivering, smoking, no longer singing, pile of ashes...what?...ok, that was a little out there but I'm blocked...gotta do something...pound at the keyboard in a(so far) futle attempt to shock myself back into writing...damn, I never thought not doing something that I spent most of my life not doing would be such a mental irritant...and thinking about sandpaper ain't helping that itch...and imagining calamine lotion is just as ineffective.
Watched a few episodes of Painkiller Jane...another sterling example of a great comic book idea that Hollywood monkeys can't seem to handle...instead of writing good scripts and hoping the actors would show their own ineptitude by not being able to act their way out of wet paper bags, we're left having to think that maybe, if Kristanna hadn't been given the written equivalent of a 'monkey's handful of throwing material', she would have stunned us all with the talent in her head and heart and not her talents that stretched out her tops...sorry fellow geeks and nerds but that woman can't act...although I'm sure she might have been great...in porn...filmed back when Fatty Arbuckle was just a charming 'fat' guy...before he became the boy next door that mothers and fathers never wanted their daughters to meet...ah, that might be a little harsh and I will offer a full apolgy when(and if) someone can offer up an example of her talent that doesn't rely on making men's pants a little tighter.
Another rambling paragraph down and I'm still not feeling it...where the fuck is it? At my age I make an effort to live my life with as little outside stress as possible and, when I accepted Jim's challenge and started writing, I was amazed at the added relief that it brought to me...having an 'out' I never had before and being surprised and thrilled to find that a few people actually enjoyed reading my scribbles...still a thrill...just gotta get back into the swing...maybe tomorrow?...I'll know it when it happens...and so will Chas56...because I'm gonna write the second part to 'Mr. Grumpy Pants Vs. Chas56'...and it's gonna leave everyone stunned by the crushing emotional weight it will bring to Chuck FF in particular...and literature in general...it'll be a tour de force and some will laugh, some will cry and some...most likely Chas56...will fudge their undies.
You know what?...maybe I'll get back to BLDBAL...or SVTSS...or...... JT
Been reading some of the newer additions to the ChuckFF and there's some really good stuff, both from the usual suspects(Frea, Quistie, Doc, Mia and many I should mention but can't because I'm blanking) and from some who are posting their first stories(once again, blanking on names but I'll have a list the next time I post here, just in case anyone actually is interested in what I'm reading)...also reading some over at Castle...and still waiting, patiently, for GLEE torture porn...somebody out there better get busy...I know I can't be the only one waiting for that...c'mon...Kurt killed when his sybian(is that the right word?) short circuts, leaving him a quivering, smoking, no longer singing, pile of ashes...what?...ok, that was a little out there but I'm blocked...gotta do something...pound at the keyboard in a(so far) futle attempt to shock myself back into writing...damn, I never thought not doing something that I spent most of my life not doing would be such a mental irritant...and thinking about sandpaper ain't helping that itch...and imagining calamine lotion is just as ineffective.
Watched a few episodes of Painkiller Jane...another sterling example of a great comic book idea that Hollywood monkeys can't seem to handle...instead of writing good scripts and hoping the actors would show their own ineptitude by not being able to act their way out of wet paper bags, we're left having to think that maybe, if Kristanna hadn't been given the written equivalent of a 'monkey's handful of throwing material', she would have stunned us all with the talent in her head and heart and not her talents that stretched out her tops...sorry fellow geeks and nerds but that woman can't act...although I'm sure she might have been great...in porn...filmed back when Fatty Arbuckle was just a charming 'fat' guy...before he became the boy next door that mothers and fathers never wanted their daughters to meet...ah, that might be a little harsh and I will offer a full apolgy when(and if) someone can offer up an example of her talent that doesn't rely on making men's pants a little tighter.
Another rambling paragraph down and I'm still not feeling it...where the fuck is it? At my age I make an effort to live my life with as little outside stress as possible and, when I accepted Jim's challenge and started writing, I was amazed at the added relief that it brought to me...having an 'out' I never had before and being surprised and thrilled to find that a few people actually enjoyed reading my scribbles...still a thrill...just gotta get back into the swing...maybe tomorrow?...I'll know it when it happens...and so will Chas56...because I'm gonna write the second part to 'Mr. Grumpy Pants Vs. Chas56'...and it's gonna leave everyone stunned by the crushing emotional weight it will bring to Chuck FF in particular...and literature in general...it'll be a tour de force and some will laugh, some will cry and some...most likely Chas56...will fudge their undies.
You know what?...maybe I'll get back to BLDBAL...or SVTSS...or...... JT
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
So, this is what writer's block is like?
I just don't have a clue what's going on...I have chapters started for most of my stories and two of the,m have over a thousand words but I just can't seem to add anything else...I've got the ideas, I just can't seem to wriet to the ideas...for instance, I'm gonna have Sarah and Chuck run into Jill while on their honeymoon and I'm gonna have Sarah 'run into' Jill while chuck's back is temporarily distracted...I just can't get there...the idea is perfect for the story but I just can't get there...and it's seriously fucking with my whatever the hell writing stuff is...I've never been one to plan out my chapters, choosing instead to just let it rip, 99% of the time posting whatever dribbled from my fingers without even bothering to give it a second read through...probably explains a lot, huh?...but right now it's just not dribbling...the ideas are there and they have places to go but I can't get them there...maybe tomorrow.
Getting caught up on my Castle viewing...saw 47 seconds and I'm begining to worry that AM and co. may have taken a page from phedak and co's playbook and they may fuck up a slam dunk of a relationship that has been brewing 4 years...I really hope they don't and give us a fifth season full of fun cases and a growing relationship that is based on the love the two great characters...fingers crossed while wishing away the terrible taste that Fedak and co left in my mouth when they shit all over an unbelievably loyal fan base, hoping ABC doesn't 'Chuck' the droves of Castle fans who have been waiting so patiently for Caskett.
Thinking about a possible mash up after re-watching a favorite movie of mine...does the title 'Echo Park Bartowski' give any hints?...well, Chuck and Gross Pointe Blank...could work with the right changes, twists and substitutions...first I've gotta slip past this block...fuck, what a hot day for the first week of April...this could be brutal summer...tired and thinking that it's nap time... JT
Getting caught up on my Castle viewing...saw 47 seconds and I'm begining to worry that AM and co. may have taken a page from phedak and co's playbook and they may fuck up a slam dunk of a relationship that has been brewing 4 years...I really hope they don't and give us a fifth season full of fun cases and a growing relationship that is based on the love the two great characters...fingers crossed while wishing away the terrible taste that Fedak and co left in my mouth when they shit all over an unbelievably loyal fan base, hoping ABC doesn't 'Chuck' the droves of Castle fans who have been waiting so patiently for Caskett.
Thinking about a possible mash up after re-watching a favorite movie of mine...does the title 'Echo Park Bartowski' give any hints?...well, Chuck and Gross Pointe Blank...could work with the right changes, twists and substitutions...first I've gotta slip past this block...fuck, what a hot day for the first week of April...this could be brutal summer...tired and thinking that it's nap time... JT
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