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I need to write! And I am completely stumped. So my plan is to trawl the kinkmemes of the world and look for something to inspire me.

Except I don't really know where the kinkmemes live.

Anyone have links? Doctor Who, Whedonverse, small fandom or multi-fandom memes would be awesome.

(I know about the popslash fic requests comm - but I'm kind of not finding anything there to inspire me just now. :()

Or you could just prompt me?

Stupid lack of muses.

Feeling kind of sad tonight. But I am sort of... noticing it and letting it be there. And I think that's sort of good.

In better news: I did some good stuff today. Made job-hunt progress, worked on my ebook, and finished knitting the hat I've been working on (and darned in the ends). I shall probably do the pressing and making-up at the weekend, and then: new shiny hat for me!

Wondering about picking up the writing again after a couple of weeks' break. I miss it, but for various reasons the Inception epic is well and truly stalled at the moment. I don't want to give up on it permanently but I think I need something different to work on for now.

There was also piano tonight. Five minutes, but that was better than nothing.

To be done tonight - I want to find my hairdryer (I've been thinking about this for days and haven't got round to it!) and work on a bedtime routine of some kind. I'm pretty sure that would be good for me.

And now, dear Journalling Services, I am going to turn off the internet for the evening.

Good night!

Hello, lovely people!

I am trying to jumpstart my muses.

A thing that has worked for me in the past is to ask for prompts and write ficlets in return. Seems to get the juices flowing. And I have a new fandom (Sherloooock!) and that's kind of enormous fun, but I can't seem to get writing. Thinking, yes. Writing, no.

So I'm not going to restrict this to just Sherlock, because I'm not sure how Sherlock-enabled my readers are in general. But I'm going to include Sherlock, and I'd like at least one Sherlock prompt at some point! But if you want another fandom, go for it.

( Fandoms under the cut )

I've been re-reading some of my fic as I post it over to AO3.

I'm actually quite a good writer, believe it or not.

:D

Just started posting my fanfics to AO3.

It's quite good over there, really!

For my birthday this year, my sister and her husband bought me a year's subscription to Mslexia, a magazine for women writers, and a 2009 writer's diary. They arrived today.

I'm really excited - this feels like my first step towards being a writer!

And incidentally, there's writer's conference in Winchester in a couple of weeks. It's incredibly short notice, but I'm a bit tempted, and I might have to go to next year's one even if I don't make it this year.

Writer's conferences! Being a writer! I am awesome!

Okay. So the one complaint so far on dwstones? Is that people aren't posting enough. So maybe I should post something about me, myself and I. How I got to Dreamwidth, and a thing or two that's important to me.

I got here via fandom. And I should point out that I'm a relative newbie to fandom with only about 18 months under my belt. I'm sure that you will hear a thing or two about my favourite fandom, which is popslash, in many subsequent posts. (For a quickie definition, though: popslash is slash about real people in the pop world, usually *Nsync, The Backstreet Boys and associated people. And slash is same-sex romantic/erotic fan fiction.)

The thing that I really want to do with my life is write. Actual words, my own non-fanfic words - and preferably make some kind of money at it. That would be awesome. I have ideas, but they feel "too big to write" and I'm rather intimidated about actually doing it. So I'm working on that particular thing.

I'm currently recovering from a major bout of depression and learning to cope with diabetes still, about nine months after I was diagnosed. Partly as a result of that, I'm currently even more obsessed than usual with self-help and self-development stuff, and trying to learn to navigate the Big Issues that get me stuck and get me upset. I'm also quite obsessed with a "destuckification expert" called Havi Brooks, who has a web site at The Fluent Self. So you may hear a thing or two about that as time goes on.

I'm spread rather wide over the internet at the moment. I have three Livejournals (currently all paid - ahem), one for personal, one for fannish, and one for writing stuff, a Twitter account which I'm just getting to grips with, a Facebook account I barely ever use, and a new WordPress blog (which at some point deserves a link).

I have a terrible habit of over-extending myself and as a result I'm always trying to rationalize and figure out what I should be committed to and what I should ditch. This seems to be a constantly ongoing process and there is never a clean slate, which I find somewhat distressing, but that's life for you.

I was quite keen on the clean slate thing here, and then I stupidly imported my LJ. Not sure why, follow the crowd I guess...

There is no real point to this entry, except to say one more hello, and give some info about myself! :)

Okay, this has been stolen from phaballa, who resurrected it from a few years back, and I thought it was interesting. It goes a little something like this:

List your favourite story from each month this year, and say a little something about it.

( Dive under the cut for the fics. )

Um, the end.

Gakked from turps33.

Post the first line from your 25 most recent fanfics and try to find a pattern.

I'm using the most recently posted, as there are a couple I've recently finished that haven't seen the light of day yet.

( Under here for the first lines! )

I'll leave y'all to draw your own conclusions about patterns.

Seriously - apart from there being a good whack of me opening with dialogue in here, what similarities can you see?

TWELVE thousand words people.

(Twelve thousand and four, to be exact!)

Blimey.

More to write, still.