What do you need right now?

[sliver of a shard]

For next Tuesday to be here now so my husband will know what's up with his possible new job.     

[Gyppo]

A recharge. or maybe more likely a mental re-set.

My batteries have been a bit low for the last couple of weeks.  I feel as if I'm running at about 80%.  The first couple of months in each year are generally a bit of a flat time for me.  A kind of limbo after the temporary euphoria of turning the corner into the new year.  I realise some of this is probably a self-fulfilling prophecy, but it's a definite pattern.

Most of my working life, as both a Baker and a Postie Christmas and the weeks immediately prior were always rush rush rush with lots of hours at work and only adrenaline to keep me going.  Afterwards there came the inevitable slump.  I suspect my body still recalls this pattern, just as it still recalls the sleep patterns (that's a joke) of a permanent night worker.

It'll pass, it always does ;-)

Gyppo  

[sliver of a shard]

Seconded. My closest friend and I get a lottery ticket every weekend for fun. We're splitting the winnings. Of course, we've got what we'll do thoroughly planned. At least dreaming on a grand scale is free.    

[Firefly76]

The list is endless really.  Obviously we all need time, motivation, and so forth.  For myself, I need to remember where I was going with certain storylines.  I haven't picked up a thread in a particular story in so long that I am not quite sure where I was going with it.  So I also need to decide what to do with it. Do I abandon it? Or do I try to figure it out?  

[Gyppo]

I haven't picked up a thread in a particular story in so long that I am not quite sure where I was going with it.  So I also need to decide what to do with it. Do I abandon it? Or do I try to figure it out?  

Try to recapture the mood you were in when you started it.  This may trigger the same thought patterns.

Otherwise put it on one side and come back to it much later.  You may never recapture the original line of thought, but reading it 'cold' some part of it, or a single character, may well trigger a whole new angle.  If this happens don't try too hard to graft anything you have already written into the new idea, this doesn't usually work out too well.  Just let the new story fly, like a phoenix rising from the ashes.

Gyppo

[vienna]

a bloody snow plough

[carolyn eifert]

Hey C,

What I need right now is the freedom to write now!  It is to easy to let the day pass in a cloud of busy, and not focus on what really matters

[WordBird]

money, a good divorce atty, a place to live out in the middle of nowhere, and a 4 wheel drive vehicle to get there

[Jos]

Dry wood.

[pb]

a champagne lifestyle

[Orangutansaver]

What I need now is for a nice agent to send my book to a publisher!  I shall keep doing this until it happens and never give up!

Lin x

[alienauthor]

A better outline for my novel.  I've been stuck for a while and after reading a couple of masterful books, I realize the holes in my story.


Good luck with the publishing Lin!

[fire-fly]

Coffee. 

[alienauthor]

More of the right holes and less of the wrong ones.  (that didn't sound quite right, did it?)

[hanabichan]

Controlled selective amnesia.

It'd be great to sit in front of my computer and temporarily forget all the works I love and force myself to think of something original.  It may end up similar to things that already exist, but it should definately have my spin on it.

That'd be awesome.

(Unfortunately I already have selective amnesia, I just wish I could control it.)