I've been so intrigued by lightbird's responses to this, that I've decided to try it myself.

1. Tell us about your current project(s) – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?

At the moment, I'm working on my assignment for the Worldbuilding Exchange (worldbuildingex). Obviously, since it's a gift exchange with an anon period, I can't talk much about it. I can say that it's an idea that I've had for a long time.

It's going to be quite a long, plotty story. The frustrating thing is that, while I know where I want it to head, actually getting the scenes down can be tricky. Sometimes they play themselves out in my head when I'm lying in bed; but then, when I actually get down to writing, they decide to come out differently—and painfully slowly. But I've been here before. Anything besides a tiny ficlet (if I dash off immediately and write the whole thing in less than an hour) always seems to need prying out word by word.

The easiest thing to write is dialogue. There's a reason I wrote a virtual season in a script format! It's getting all the in-between bits down that's painful; yet action requires description, and one must set the scene. Still, taking it all in all, though at times it feels as though I'm pulling teeth, when I reread what I've already got down I realize that some parts of the story are going great guns.

It should all come together in the end. At the moment, though, I'm far off getting there.

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