railenthe | Another Muse rant.

Seriously, I don’t know what I’m going to do with this one at all. I’m sure everyone remembers the muse rant from before. Now, it’s time for yet another muse rant, and this time, I’ve got no say in what happens whatsoever.

I’ve been trying to keep my muses on track so that I can finish the Vincent/Cid fic that I’ve been working on for over a month now, but it seems that they have other ideas right now. I blame my habit of frequenting art threads on Gaia. If I hadn’t fallen into that old habit of mine, I wouldn’t be in this bind, now would I? No, I would not. But I did, and so I am in this bind, so I’ve got to do something about it.

Or rather, my muses have decided to do something about it. For the past two weeks, I’ve wanted to write a ficlet with a rather cracky pairing – Yazoo/Zack. (I did say cracky, and you can’t say I didn’t warn you.) It’s all thanks to seeing that pairing done visually.

It is in times like these that I wish that my muses weren’t so effective with visual catalysts.

For two days, I’ve been on a writing frenzy. It hasn’t been according to my own plans, however; it’s been according to what my muses tell me to do. Oh, sure, that’s how it always goes, but at least sometimes I get to set up the ideas and then I let my muses run off with them. This time, my muses have been the masters of the universe, and they’ve been cracking the whips at me to get me to write faster. I’ve been writing the YxZ fic for two days now.

Yes, I said ‘fic,’ and not ‘ficlet.’ The fact is, my muses have been on a roll as of late. They’ve somehow gotten me to somehow manage to write four parts for this fic already, and it looks like it’s going to be a fairly decent one. I’d planned a one-shot, just to get the bunnies out of my system, and it hasn’t worked so far. I mean, three chapters in eighteen hours…that’s psychotic. What seems to be worse is that they’re on the same kick today. I’m already up to two chapters in, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon. (The fact is, I’m working on it as I write this right now, letting my muses get their say in so that I can get the next two done in the space of two hours without a food break.)

Now that I think about it, I probably would have gotten more done yesterday if I had taken fewer food breaks.

What the hell? I just seriously contemplated cutting food out while I work, didn’t I?

These muses…they’re dangerous.

I’m wondering if I should post a few teasers every once in a while. I don’t know where this is going yet. I’m writing as though in a trance, and it is as new to me when I write it as it is to someone reading it. In fact, I went through what I wrote a few hours ago and it was like I was seeing it for the first time. It’s as if I blanked out for a few minutes at the computer monitor and then lo and behold! Fic chapters! The muses have turned me into a literary berserker, it seems.