I think I'm going to have to start working on the Seuche edits before I carry on with the main plotline.

The reasoning behind this? Partly I feel like I really just should get the beginning sorted before I try and focus on where I'm going next. Partly because I've just realized that I want to refer (briefly) back to an event which didn't actually happen in the first draft - at least not in any major, noticeable way. I now want it to be major and noticeable and considered as such by the characters. I don't really feel I can move past the bit where I refer back to it before it's actually happened, and I suspect that's why I'm feeling so deeply stalled as regards the scene I'm writing. Nothing the matter with the scene itself, just that one-line reference to something that should have happened and hasn't.

Also, I really just hate the opening chapters. I disliked them in a vague kind of way for a while, but that was before I knew what the problem with them was. Now I actually know what the problem is, I don't like leaving it uncorrected.

I can, I suppose, at least give it a shot. If it doesn't work to unblock my authorly drain, it doesn't work.

... wow, what a pointless journal entry this was.

To try and make matters rather less pointless, have a matched pair of random drabbles (both exactly 100 words long, too!) I wrote an amazing ho-hum amount of time ago and then did absolutely nothing with because I felt they were far too ridiculously short to post anywhere other than the challenge community I did them for, which I then promptly left anyway.

( The Camera Never Lies )

Well, that was pretty painless.

... see, it was supposed to be a pairing challenge, hence why I did Youji and Ken and nobody else. It's not just because I am a hopeless fangirl, really.

I get the feeling that I should probably do more of these, if only in an attempt to get my head round the concept of brevity, but I seem to remember them being pretty fun to do, too. I'm pretty sure I've got the prompt list for that community somewhere, maybe I'll try and do a couple whenever the mood strikes me and see what happens.

Also, I did sign up for weissday after all. Wish me luck, I guess.