hc_bingo and a Writing Whinge

[przed]

In spite of an inspiring card, I didn't make a bingo from my hc_bingo card last round. But I've decided to give it another go and sign up again, because a) it's h/c! and b) I'm a masochist.

Here's my new card.

loss of voice	invisibility	severe / life-threatening illness	forced soulbonding	falsely imprisoned
forced marriage	archaic medical treatment	surgery	head trauma	estrangement
medication	possession / mind control	WILD CARD	secret identity discovered	toothache
orphans	shipwrecked	eating disorders	crucifixion	drowning
depression	bodyguards	loss of limb / limb function	falling	brainwashing / deprogramming

I never thought I'd say this, but I'm sort of pleased I pulled crucifixion because I'm betting I can work it into the TT/Spartacus AU that I seem to be working on reasonably seriously. (Well, I've been getting research info from sineala and working out structure at the very least, and there's even been some writing happening.) But I think even I will balk at filling the loss of limb square.


Signing up is probably madness. I've been working on a story that was meant to be a fill for my last trope_bingo card (not to mention a sequel to my Howard-as-cop TT AU), and I have a stupidly huge case of writer's block on it. I've got a scene that just isn't doing what it needs to do, but I'm not sure how to change it, so I've been staring at the same sentence for weeeeeeeks whilst my brain my brain grinds away at it like an asthmatic hamster caught in a wheel. I finally decided this week to do an end run around the bloody scene and start writing everything that follows. I'm hoping this will lead to me figuring out how to deal with the recalcitrant scene. The jury's still out on whether this is working, but at least words are being produced.

Part of the problem might be that I think the creative part of my brain is more keen to vid than write at the moment. With the problem being that I don't have the huge chunks of time I need to vid available at the moment. But I definitely want to. And I've promised myself and a few others that I'll have a new vid for BistoCon.

::sigh::

Comments

[przed.livejournal.com]

Wow, you're clearly a genius! Victorian AU Bodie and Doyle and trepanning have definite possibilities. *g*

I figure the more people I tell I'm going to do a vid, the more likely I'll get the damn thing done. (I've got about 5 whole seconds edited so far. Which is better than nothing, right? *g*)

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

I am a genius, it's true. bwahahahaha. Trepanning and Doyle immediately came into my head with archaiac medical--holey magical, I suspect.

Hey, 5 seconds is more than I have ever vidded ever, so I think that's impressive.