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[lobelia321]

So how do you stop yourself from reading and posting on LJ when what you wanted to be doing was writing fic? How do you do that??

Some nice words from my Oxford:

catalysis = doesn't change itself but aids a chemical change in other substances

cataplexy, cataplectic = sudden temporary paralysis due to fright

porraceous = leek-green

anacoluthon = lacking grammatical sequence (badfic!!!!)


He turned porraceous with cataplexy. The anacoluthon had totally catalysed him!

*

"Ana, can you hear me?"

"Don't call me Ana. You know my name is Anakin."

"I'll stop calling you Ana if you stop calling me Col."

"Oh, all right, Coluthon. And now, take off your robes."

*rustle, rustle*

"On second thoughts, put them back on again. You aliens are so... weird. I didn't, um, expect a porraceous..."

"It's not what colour it is, Ana, it's what you do with it!"

"And stop calling me Ana, I'm not a girl!"

"On my planet, you are. With that thing."

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[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

So how do you stop yourself from reading and posting on LJ when what you wanted to be doing was writing fic? How do you do that??

buggered if i know, ms. 'belia. sometimes i contemplate hiding my wireless thingummy in the other room.

b.x :/

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Just after I posted this, I found such a fantastic discussion of her writing by Julad and then some fantastic fics and writing sites she recced, I don't even regret becoming sidetracked! Julad's been around since 1997 and in seven fandoms so I figured my angsts over having taken 2 years to not finish a fic is nothing, there's plenty of time, there is no hurry. Now, though, I am hungry as I neglected to eat. God, I don't take drugs but screentime is so addictive!

[giglet.livejournal.com]

So how do you stop yourself from reading and posting on LJ when what you wanted to be doing was writing fic? How do you do that??

Sometimes I just need to close the web browser and promise myself not to open it until the timer goes off.

Sometimes that doesn't work.

So sometimes, I close the web browser and disable my Net connectivity and set the timer.

Sometimes that doesn't work, either.

In extreme cases, I kick myself out of my office and write longhand at the kitchen table. When the timer goes off, I'm either interested in continuing to write or I want to get up and make soup or water the plants, or stuff other than getting on LJ.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

What is it with us, that we just love hanging out in this forum so much?

The longhand one works for me, too, but then I never transfer my longhand to computer and have two notebooks full of illegible scribbles!!

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

WHAH!

good job!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

Grammarslash!

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

So how do you stop yourself from reading and posting on LJ when what you wanted to be doing was writing fic? How do you do that??

Not the faintest - if you ever discover the secret, *please* post it because I'm one of the worst procrastinators myself :(

"Draco was drowning in the porraceous depths of Harry's eyes?" :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Bwuahahahahhaha.

Oh dear.