wherein Liz is grumpy and displeased

[edenfalling]

I think what annoys me about trying to be creative right now is that nothing is grabbing me, and also none of my current projects are short enough to be wrapped up in a single sitting. So I add some words here, and some words there, and everything just kind of inches along inconclusively and I don't get the positive reinforcement of finishing stuff.

Blargh.

I suppose progress by inches is still progress, so. I am slowly piecing together the missing scene for "Second Chances" -- I might be about halfway through that now? -- after which I will get back to fixing the existing scenes. I am starting to toss around some ideas for my Fandom Trumps Hate auction fic, because I need a plot to hang the scenario on and that's fairly low-pressure. I have added some words to 'free' and 'soft,' which are two of my remaining Cotton Candy Bingo squares. ('Cute' I still have no clue what to do with.) I have reread some of my background planning for "Intervention" as preparation for unsticking myself on the space battle.

I am pretty sure this drought is a combination of general overwork and a blue funk, and it will pass, but man, I hate the way depression walls me off from doing things I love. :(

Comments

[mme_hardy]

That sucks, and I'm sorry.

[edenfalling]

Thank you. It will pass -- by the fourth week of April at the latest! -- but knowing that it will pass only mitigates the middle of the funk by so much, you know?

[alexseanchai]

*hugs?*

[edenfalling]

*is hugged*

[alexseanchai]

If you don't want hugs, the question mark was there to indicate my hesitancy in absence of knowledge of your consent or lack thereof, so say you don't want hugs and the hug stops before it properly starts. Or say you do want hugs, and the hug proceeds. You know?

I know people can be twitchy about physical contact (digital equivalent thereof or otherwise), and I'm trying to explicitly respect consent wrt same, and I can't figure out from your comment if e-hugs are welcome.

[edenfalling]

Sorry, that was kind of an awkward meme-riff -- you know, the "Holds puppy, Puppy: is hold" thing? -- which I tend to do because I do like intangible gestures of comfort but I never know how to reply to them.

[alexseanchai]

I must be unfamiliar with this meme.

So we're good? :)

[edenfalling]

Yes, we're good. :)

[alexseanchai]

:)

Depression persists suck, though. :(