Dear Brain,

I see that research into cocaine use and APD you have open, and I'm smart enough to put two and two together. Stop thinking about writing Sherlock fic.

Thanks,
Your job hunting pal.

I hate that point, right at the start of a piece of work that has a deadline, where your brain goes... 'Ideas you say? Nope, none of those here...'

*sigh*

Meanwhile, 101 fics stand unfinished and I feel like a muppet for taking on another piece of work.

Dear Everyone who is expecting fic from me, or who has helped me with fic and then wondered where the final product has gone,

I will get there. I promise.

LMX

Why oh why oh why does my brain fail so hard?

After awesome prompts, several of which I am a couple of hundred words into but far from finishing, my brain has decided to drop everything and obsess over some bit of crappy were!fic fluff that I never intended to write in the first place. GAH!

Dear lovely people who prompted and have helped me develop plans for awesome things - I will get to your fics, but possibly when I have more time to focus on them. I'm always worried about the quantity vs quality phenomena, and the prompted fics are ones I want to be quality-leaning rather than 'oh god I've got to write another 20 points worth of fic before the 30th'. (leading to 'oh god, what was LMX thinking when this got written?)

Apologies for the blah, just to let you know why some of the prompted things aren't appearing.



PS: Cowboys vs Aliens ROCKS SO HARD. But I'm going to go to sleep giggling to the image of Daniel Craig trying to do rising trot in an American saddle.

Looking for a book or film in which the law-enforcement style (or any other perceived 'good guy' role) bod either turns out to be or gets talked into becoming a criminal. Something with a snappy name I can use as a con name.

I'm sure I should know at least one, but in traditional style my mind has gone blank.

Debating maybe 'Dead Presidents'?

Help?

Just re-read what I had written for Eliot's character bio for this spin off thing and realised I had written "His loyalty to Moreau, forged in the heat of battle..."

Accidental Xena quote for the FAIL.

Totally wrote an amnesia fic in my head last night (I love lucid dreaming), only problem is I never saw the amnesiac's face... So I don't know who they are either. I don't even have a fandom, because people from all my other fandoms kept appearing and there was an inkling of recognition for all of them, but none of them recognised him. (There's a posibility the character was supposed to be me, but that would suck, so I'm ignoring that option for now)

So the question is, do I arbitrarily asign someone to the role, do I write it out until my brain works it out, or do I get you guys to pick someone?

I'm debating an amnesia meme - where I give you everything I know about the character and you can vote on who you think it is.

Or it could be like one of those multiple choice stories - does anyone remember those? That's actually quite tempting...

I have decided that the second part (at least, preferably the third part and epilogue too) of 'Taking Care' WILL be done in time for the close of THIS YEAR's Leverage Exchange. I'm well aware that this is a whole year after it was due in. carinascott, I'm so, so sorry.

The minute my viva (and the obligatory post-viva 'celebration', which I'm almost dreading more - seriously world, compulsory social interaction after the worst couple of hours of my life?) is done, whether I failed or not (jibbers) I *will* be writing. Whether my brain agrees with this or not.