At 07:04 AM 6/12/96 -0500, Shannon and Tim Richmeyer wrote:

Just a thought on 'The Block'. I've found that I block when I want the 
story to go one way and the story itself wants to go another. As soon as 
I accept the fact that it is going to go the way it wants then the door 
opens and off I go again. Forcing it to go the way I want just does not 
work...see Windlily chuck 2 days worth of work (all of 3 paragraphs) 
because it's wretched. Does this happen to anybody else?

Yeah... but sometimes what I delete turns out to be better than the
rewrite... thank god for 'undelete' :)

The other thing that will cause me to block is boredom with the 
storyline itself. That's a little easier to deal with 'cause I can just 
put it up for a while and go work on something else.

Me too. Something else that bothers me is when I get hit with a great
idea... for another story. I write it down for later, but it just won't get
outta my head! :)

Oh, btw all, I *will* be continuing that 'Jack Frost' BGC fic after some
*major* revisions. Why the change of heart? I heard on the news last week
that a company was given permission to drill for oil under Sable Island.
Which is exactly what I predicted in the 'fic. Sure spooked - and inspired -
me... ^_^

                                                                        - MW