Yeah, the burn out is getting pretty bad all around, I think. I hope we're just hitting a wall and will push through it for these last couple weeks, but I dunno. I think I would have liked to have a week off after week 4 to recharge or something (which, yes, I recognize is against the spirit of the marathon, but I'd rather everyone were still having fun).
Yeah, I do best with a specific prompt that my brain can spin around to make something. I think that's the most frustrating thing about this week for those of us who are natural feel-good writers anyway -- WE SHOULD BE GOOD AT THIS, DAMMIT. THIS IS OUR ELEMENT. WHY IS IT SO FRICKING HARD??
I'm glad you have an idea! I do, too, though it seems a lot less exciting this morning than it did last night when I thought of it! I suspect at this point, it almost doesn't matter how much actual porn you have in it -- a lot of the winners and best-received stories last week only had a little bit, so I suspect people are getting a bit fed up with the porn and are looking for a good story more than anything. So let's fluff away and see what happens!
And yeah, I don't tend to do a lot of angst or darkfic in my normal writing either, which was why I was kind of looking forward to the darkfic challenge (if we had one this year). I did at least have an idea for that, one that I can't really use anywhere else!
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Yeah, I do best with a specific prompt that my brain can spin around to make something. I think that's the most frustrating thing about this week for those of us who are natural feel-good writers anyway -- WE SHOULD BE GOOD AT THIS, DAMMIT. THIS IS OUR ELEMENT. WHY IS IT SO FRICKING HARD??
I'm glad you have an idea! I do, too, though it seems a lot less exciting this morning than it did last night when I thought of it! I suspect at this point, it almost doesn't matter how much actual porn you have in it -- a lot of the winners and best-received stories last week only had a little bit, so I suspect people are getting a bit fed up with the porn and are looking for a good story more than anything. So let's fluff away and see what happens!
And yeah, I don't tend to do a lot of angst or darkfic in my normal writing either, which was why I was kind of looking forward to the darkfic challenge (if we had one this year). I did at least have an idea for that, one that I can't really use anywhere else!