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[astralis]

Don't you hate the feeling where you write a perfectly good fic in your head - but when you start typing it out you realise it's crap?

I tried to write a post-ep to last night's McLeod's Daughters and some Sam/Jack fluff. Both fics sounded good in my head when I was thinking them over at work this morning, but now? Uck. Terrible.

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[aim-toothpaste.livejournal.com]

So much. And it happens such a lot.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_astralis/]

Yeah, happens to me all the time too. Drives me nuts.

[lightsarefading.livejournal.com]

I know exactly how you feel. It sounds really good in your head, then when you write it down your like, "what was I thinking?"

[http://users.livejournal.com/_astralis/]

Yeah. It's amazing how words can go from seeming really good to seeming like crap just from being written down, and it always makes me wonder how I could possibly have thought it was good in the first place.

[kiaforrest.livejournal.com]

Yes! ::banging head on desk, sloshing coffee that resembles my life's blood but isn't really, no, it's not!::

And, for me, it is usually the mood/ tone that just falls flat. The ambiance you had in your mind doesn't Fit with the paper/ screen & you want to carve it, whip it, fling the sentences around but you can See... it Is without hope, except, maybe, you know, this One Word here...... ::grin::

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_astralis/]

For me it's all of it - mood, tone, words that seemed to go together so well that just don't when I see them written down.

Although I'm glad it's not just me - but sorry it happens to other people as well!