"always travelling but not in love"

[mooging]

RIGHT

Why is it that, inevitably, whenever I've been wanting to write something for a while, and been doodling around in notebooks in the vain hope that something will leap out of my pen and smack in the face with its Getting Writtenness, I will always find myself at some stupid hour of the day when I should, by all rights and needs, be both in my bed and asleep, sitting here with an open Word document and something new just beginning to take shape?

Currently, I am in the middle of writing two things, neither of which I was expecting to write before today, and both of them make me wonder if I have actually lost my mind.

Never mind! I just like to be writing things. I find the other truth in writing fic is that it will always spring itself in its most proactive state just when I have a bazillion other things that really need to be done or there will be Dire Consequence, like finishing coursework, or revising, or catching up on that pile of work that is mocking me from its corner of my room, or, I don't know, Getting Better, or something. Obviously these things should take second place to finishing the fics.

This is a silly hour of the morning to be posting as well: I will re-read this tomorrow and see it in all its pretentious glory and feel a bit ashame-ed.

In conclusion:



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I find the other truth in writing fic is that it will always spring itself in its most proactive state just when I have a bazillion other things that really need to be done or there will be Dire Consequence, like finishing coursework, or revising, or catching up on that pile of work that is mocking me from its corner of my room, or, I don't know, Getting Better, or something.

YES YES EXACTLY. Whenever I actually want or have TIME to write something, I'm doing something else, and whenever I have Physics to do, or a billion pages of Latin to translate, LO THE MUSE RETURNS. The fic I'm writing right now (Brideshead RPS, represent!) got started at, what, 2 AM?

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LATIN WHAT YOU TAKE LATIN? Did I know this? Latin is, like, my academic baby. I'm doing a Classics degree once I've finished this year's exams. I fail at it entirely but my love for it is RIDICULOUS.

Why does fic seem to hate sleep so much? Why is it half past one in the morning and yet I am writing this thing when I should have been in bed at least an hour and a half ago?

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Yes, yes I do! Latin is my BABY, even though my parents have been trying to get me to drop the class and do French instead for the past three years. LATIN. ♥

I knooow! I have recently taken up going to sleep extra early (10 PM, woot!) and getting up at 3 AM to kickstart my muse. IT WORKS SURPRISINGLY WELL.