On resurrections

So FFVII is getting a remake for PS4 and somebody read and reviewed Full Circle for the first time in years. So I re-read it for the first time in years and, wow: 1. The first chap really needs an edit. 2. I'm totally back on the Reeve/Rufus train somehow even though I have actually promised to write something else. Like flip-flopping plot ideas/character arcs in my head, fact checking and wondering where the heck I saved the files I had from 7 years ago. (Also it bugs me that I don't remember the title. Which is usually one of the first things I come up with when I get a fic idea.)

I always thought it was a bit silly, writers going on about their "muse", when really it was basically: this idea is shiny and fascinating right now and the other feels more like work/grind than writing flow. And then I think about this Jonathan Stroud pep talk for Nanowrimo where he just sits himself down and forces himself to write until he forgets that he wasn't absolutely dying to finish the chapter/edit/whatever and it's six hours later and he's got several pages (or at least a few lines) to show for it. And I'm all...oooh, but that sounds like it takes self-discipline... *edges away slowly and sees what TV I haven't caught up on yet* Also this TED talk on how stating your goals makes you less likely to reach them makes me wonder if I should have not said anything. Like I was a good 8 pages and an outline in and then I committed and now it's taken two months for two more pages...

So yeah, I totally feel GRRM on the ridiculous LJ output and zero Winds of Winter updates. LOL