More Lightening Fic

[kerravonsen]

I have been working hard at work the last couple of days, and my brain is fizzled out. I tried to do some more two-minute challenges, and most of them were crap or I couldn't do at all. Here are the least crappy of them, the ones I didn't delete. I think this does demonstrate that my creativity is stuck in a tarpit.

Two-Minute Challenge #6
Character: Daniel
Word:arrowheaded

"Look what I found!" Daniel cried.

"What?"

"An arrow head."

"You sure that's what it is?"

"Huh, didn't you ever dig up arrow heads when you were a kid?"

"Nope. I went stargazing." In more ways than one...

"Right, well, this is an arrowhead. Obsidian."

"So?"

"So it means that this place was populated."

Two-Minute Challenge #7
Character: Methos
Word:soberness

Methos contemplated the beer bottle in his hand. There had been a time when beer and wine were drunk like water, and for much the same reason -- to quench thirst. And there were other times where soberness was much prized -- but not until after they'd managed to get water that wouldn't cause cholera in most people. Funny how moral fashions changed when necessity was no longer there.

Two-Minute Challenge #8
Character: Methos
Word:curiosities

A museum used to be called a cabinet of wonders. A collection of curiosities. No sober scientific intent, not back then. Just pure entertainment -- like a circus. He wondered which would be worse, if immortals were to be known about -- to be displayed like a circus freak, or to be dissected with sober solemn scientific fervour?

Two-Minute Challenge #9
Character: Jack
Word:twitter

Jack stretched out his arms as he listened to the birds twitter in the trees. Ah, he loved fishing. It wasn't so much the catching of fish, as the relaxing that he enjoyed. Fishing off a pier allowed him to sit in a comfy canvas chair, with a cooler of beer at his side, a hat on his head, insect repellant -- a civilized way of interacting with nature. You wouldn't catch him dead grubbing about in a muddy creek.

Two-Minute Challenge #10
Character: Methos
Word:womanishly

"You've got to be joking."

"Would I lie to you?"

"Of course you would. I can't believe you dressed up as a woman in order to get into the Sultan's palace."

"Don't you think I could pull it off?" Methos pursed his lips womanishly.

"I shudder to think."

"The Sultan was quite taken with me, actually."

"I notice you don't mention which Sultan."

Two-Minute Challenge #11
Character: Avon
Word:starving

He shuddered. He couldn't help it. But his face was flat and cold as ice. Only those who knew him well would know what he was feeling. Only those... and they were dead. He was starving for affection; starving in his soul.

Comments

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

I like the Methos ones.

Maybe if you feel your creativity is stuck, what you need is a different amount or kind of stimulation than you've been getting (that's usually what it is with me). Some fresh air, or a type of movie you never watch, or dinner at your favorite restaurant, or fingerpainting - anything that's a change. I have some books by a woman named Julia Cameron who suggests a weekly "artist's date", something where you take your inner artist out to play - browse a crafts store, make a collage, build a sand castle, go to a museum - whatever creative or stimulating thing feeds your inner artist. It's worth a try, and even if it doesn't work immediately, it's fun, and it doesn't have to take very long (an hour is enough) or cost anything.

[kerravonsen]

Hmmm, well browsing a craft store is certainly going to cost something!
Yes, but I do need some "refreshment of the spirit" now...
Maybe I will think of something, maybe I won't.