Battling Writer's Block
Dec. 5th, 2007 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mysidI got off to a very good start on my ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
rs_small_gifts story and then ground to a halt with my customary case of writer's block. If I'd just been writing it for myself, I may have let the story remain unloved and unfinished on my hard drive, but since I'm writing it for someone else (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aclytie), I had to persevere.
The good news, I found a way around my writer's block. I simply backed up, deleted the scene that had tripped my up, and am continuing without that scene.
The bad news, once I start writing, I forget everything else. No Chirstmas presents were purchased today. No cookies were baked today. (Although I did bake Chanukkah cookies yesterday--for my daughter to give her teacher.) And worst of all, I was late picking up my kids from school. Bad Mommy! (They usually take the bus, but I'd promised to pick them up today. I didn't remember that little detail until the exact time I should have been meeting them in the school lobby.)
Quick question for you all: Now that Six Apart has sold LJ, and I will no longer be punishing the hated Six Apart by refusing to renew my paid account status, do you think I should renew? I'd get to keep my purty icons if I do. If I don't, my paid account reverts to a free one in a week.
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rs_small_gifts story and then ground to a halt with my customary case of writer's block. If I'd just been writing it for myself, I may have let the story remain unloved and unfinished on my hard drive, but since I'm writing it for someone else (aclytie), I had to persevere.The good news, I found a way around my writer's block. I simply backed up, deleted the scene that had tripped my up, and am continuing without that scene.
The bad news, once I start writing, I forget everything else. No Chirstmas presents were purchased today. No cookies were baked today. (Although I did bake Chanukkah cookies yesterday--for my daughter to give her teacher.) And worst of all, I was late picking up my kids from school. Bad Mommy! (They usually take the bus, but I'd promised to pick them up today. I didn't remember that little detail until the exact time I should have been meeting them in the school lobby.)
Quick question for you all: Now that Six Apart has sold LJ, and I will no longer be punishing the hated Six Apart by refusing to renew my paid account status, do you think I should renew? I'd get to keep my purty icons if I do. If I don't, my paid account reverts to a free one in a week.
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Date: 2007-12-05 10:01 pm (UTC)Guess it depends on whether or not you'd like to support the new company as well. It would be easy for me to say "no" considering my paid account doesn't run out until June (and even now I tell people who ask that I will "probably not" renew my account, not "won't").
Personally though, LJ is becoming too big and out of control for me, which is part of the reason I'm spending more and more time at InsaneJournal. Yes, I'm well established here with dozens of icons and all, but... eh. Every time they introduce a new feature, it seems to me like they're trying to meet the features of Facebook or Myspace, heh. My opinion and all that, but hey, $.02 is $.02 :) Plus, I don't know enough about the new company yet to feel like supporting them (whether they're foreign-owned or not.) What I've seen so far is a lot of conpsiracy theory tinhatting, but until we've had a few more weeks/months of knowing what is going to change and how... eh.
Maybe you could renew it for a short time period, rather than a full year, if you're unsure?