shadowscast

Um, more fun writing, too late at night as usual.

Another thousand words or so tonight.

I have to constantly argue with the little devil perched on my shoulder, which says "Post some chapters now! Just one won't hurt! But, actually, if you're going to post one you should really post two, since the first chapter's just the set-up. C'mon, it'll be fun. You'll make friends. Chicks will love you, fans will fall at your feet...." And instead of an angel, on my other shoulder I've got this timid little mouse that has its own reasons for wanting me to post: "eeek, I'm scared I'm no good, I want to post some now and hopefully get some reassurance," says the mouse. (Then the devil says, since it's evil: "Well maybe no one will like it anyway." And the mouse says to the devil "Hey, aren't we working towards a common goal here?" And the devil says "OK, I'll shut up now.")

I don't want to post it as a WIP. The story will be better after editing, and after I hopefully find some lovely person to beta it for me. I'm not totally satisfied with the first chapter - I'll probably partly re-write it after I finish. There's another bit a few chapters in that I know horribly needs work done to it, but I want to finish before I go back there (because I'm afraid of getting stalled).

Plus, there is the traumatizing Stalled WIP of Doom. The "project I'll get back to as soon as I finish this one." I don't want to spawn a second WIP of Doom. I mean, yes, I'm 99% sure I'm going to finish this sucker really soon - but why tempt fate?

So, the question for the night: is it liberating and therapeutic to have a LJ in which to post my writing-related neurosis, or is it just unhealthy?

Man, I really should just go to bed.