Feh. Slow day at work (really unusual for us, on a Friday), but I still have to stay until the Classified department is done, which means a 12-14 hour workday for me. I've also had a headache all day -- not bad enough to take anything for it, but still a low-level annoyance. And since I work in a room with a bunch of other people, it's difficult to whip out a word processing document and start writing.

(Apparently I have no problem updating LJ in a fishbowl, though.)

My creative impulses have been in a weird tailspin lately. It's not that I don't have ideas -- it's just that I've really been having trouble sticking to a project, fanfic or original. My hard drive is full of languishing WIPs, some of them consisting of no more than a page. And I don't even want to sit down and figure out how much time per day I've been spending online compared to how much time I've been spending actually writing/drawing. (Actually, maybe I should; maybe it would kick me out of this highly counterproductive "spending 6 hours answering message board posts" mode.)

It's not that I don't want to write. It's not even that I'm finding writing particularly difficult. It's more just a matter of ... motivation? All I know is that I get partway into a story and just don't have the oomph to keep plowing forward.

Random motivational things: Ten Epic Fantasy Themes We Don't See Enough by N.K. Jemison. These are just the sorts of fantasy that I like to read and write. If I could write. ::headdesk::

On the fanfic front, maybe I need a challenge. What challenges are going on right now, guys? There's the kidfic challenge over at sga_flashfic (which I started a story for, but, duh, can't seem to finish), and galpalficathon. Hmm, maybe I'll go browse their prompts for a while.

::bored::