Man, I wrote the most amazing fic

[gwyn]

Last night. In my head. Cold medicine makes me come up with these really beautiful things. And I just lay there, waiting for the damn stuff to work and fully put me to sleep, and wrote this little Battlestar Galactica Adama and Roslin thing, post-"new Caprica" but pre-ending of the second season. And, you know, goddammit. I can't remember anything much about it at all. Crap crap crap. And somewhere in the middle of the night or wee hours of the morning, I came up with some great stuff for the stalled out Measure of a Man. Why can't I do this when I'm not loopy and sick? Why???

Eeyore was so right: This writing business, pencils and whatnot. Overrated, if you ask me.

Comments

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Have you tried getting drunk? I've found that helps. You have to edit it for crap, later. And watch out for those sentences so vaguely thought-out that you can't even figure out what you, the writer, actually meant.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

My problem is that when I get drunk, I tend to just get really loud and laughy, and then fall asleep.

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

LOL. Oh well. I hope you feel better soon.

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

I know EXACTLY what you mean. I nearly finished my novella in my HEAD, but once I finally got to a place where I could type it up, all of the good stuff just ... evaporated.

Sometimes I wish I could just pull a fic out of my brain and slam it into someone else's.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Well, hopefully someone who can type and take dictation!

Damned Fucking Cold Medicine!

[cattraine.livejournal.com]

Does the same damned thing to me! Ten seconds after I open my eyes the whole lucid dream vanishes, taking my great plot with it!

Re: Damned Fucking Cold Medicine!

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

The worst part is that I used to be able to repeat the ideas to myself a couple times, and they would stay with me to th enext day, when I could write them down. Apparently those days are gone, alreayd, and the cold medicine makes it worse.

[sherrold.livejournal.com]

oh, I *HATE* that. I nearly cried the last time that happened to me. Someday we'll be able to record directly out of our brains, and I want it now.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

You know, come to think of it, isn't about half the stuff from Neuromancer that everyone said would come true already true? So why the @#%$%& isn't jacking in? Why can't we just stuck a coax cable or USB or firewire into our heads and get this stuff out before we lose it?