Strange writing obstacles

[Liar]

I've got ketchup in my keyboard. The letters D, R, F, T and G stick when I push them. I borrowed this laptop, but it doesn't have Office, so I can't open my projects.

So today, I have condiment based writer's block.


What's the dumbest thing that has kept you from writing?

 

[Handley_Page]

I've got ketchup in my keyboard. The letters D, R, F, T and G stick when I push them. I borrowed this laptop, but it doesn't have Office, so I can't open my projects.

So today, I have condiment based writer's block.

What's the dumbest thing that has kept you from writing?

An inability to finish the story. . .

 

[mynameisben]

What's the dumbest thing that has kept you from writing?

My brane.

 

[bronzeage]

I've got ketchup in my keyboard. The letters D, R, F, T and G stick when I push them. I borrowed this laptop, but it doesn't have Office, so I can't open my projects.

So today, I have condiment based writer's block.


What's the dumbest thing that has kept you from writing?

Coffee is a bitch. I can take my keyboard apart and wash the keys. The actual works are protected by a condom style rubber membrane, so the only problem is sticky mechanical parts.

The dumbest thing that has kept me from writing is usually fellow employees who want to talk about who got kicked off American Idol.

 

[jomar]

My laptop drowned due to an errant glass of wine.

 

[sr71plt]

I've meant to take along on trips disks of what I was working on and wanted to add to--and forgot to take them.

 

[DorlaMoorehouse]

The breakup I'm going through makes me uninterested in either literary or real-life sex.

When not going through a breakup, the fact that I always overschedule myself and thus don't block out enough time for my own writing.

 

[Athalia]

The breakup I'm going through makes me uninterested in either literary or real-life sex.

Sorry to hear that, dear. If I can help, just PM. I've put you on my buddy list.

 

[Saucy_Sage]

I've got ketchup in my keyboard. The letters D, R, F, T and G stick when I push them. I borrowed this laptop, but it doesn't have Office, so I can't open my projects.

So today, I have condiment based writer's block.


What's the dumbest thing that has kept you from writing?

Oh, come on. You don't really need those letters!

 

[KillerMuffin]

I spilled 7up on my keyboard when I was all sneezy and sick and it took forever to get the enter key unstuck. I learned to write without using the right shift key. I have a new keyboard and still never use the thing. It's very weird now that I think on it. I use my left pinky to press the left shift key and my left ring finger to press the A to caps it.

My brane.

Branes rock. I love that part of string theory. Two branes whack together and boom, it touches off a new big bang. Interesting though, no? I can totally see how you can be blocked. Very sexy.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I spilled 7up on my keyboard when I was all sneezy and sick and it took forever to get the enter key unstuck. I learned to write without using the right shift key. I have a new keyboard and still never use the thing. It's very weird now that I think on it. I use my left pinky to press the left shift key and my left ring finger to press the A to caps it.



Branes rock. I love that part of string theory. Two branes whack together and boom, it touches off a new big bang. Interesting though, no? I can totally see how you can be blocked. Very sexy.

Hey, Muffy, nice to see you again.

 

[mynameisben]

Branes rock. I love that part of string theory. Two branes whack together and boom, it touches off a new big bang. Interesting though, no? I can totally see how you can be blocked. Very sexy.

No, no, no, no. You've got me all wrong. I'm more of a p-brane.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Lately, what has kept me from submitting more stories is that my wife insists on frequent visits to family members. I take my laptop and do some writing, but not as much as I can do at home. Familar surroundings are very conducive to writing, or at least I find it so.

I'm not really complaining, because family is much more important than writing smut (gasp) but sometimes I wish we could cut back a little.

 

[ishtat]

Own up! Who else just looked down to discover the right shift key for the first time.

 

[Liar]

I spilled 7up on my keyboard when I was all sneezy and sick and it took forever to get the enter key unstuck. I learned to write without using the right shift key. I have a new keyboard and still never use the thing. It's very weird now that I think on it. I use my left pinky to press the left shift key and my left ring finger to press the A to caps it.

I had some software bug on an old computer causing the shift keys to do nothing at all. It took me a couple of days until I got fast enough to toggle Caps Lock on and off instead.

 

[oggbashan]

My major obstacle is my three and a half year old granddaughter.

Today she wanted to know why the moon was still visible in a sunny sky at 10.15 am British Summer Time.

"The moon should be asleep now. Why isn't it?"

How do you explain that to an admittedly bright child in words she can understand?

The whole day is filled with questions beginning "Why?" because she thinks Granddad knows everything. If I say "I don't know" she expects me to find the answer within the next hour...

Og

 

[Trudy_Antone]

My biggest obstacle to writing this year has been writing.

I'm being cyber pounded by a gorgeous man I met on my travels who lives 14,000k's away. Now I'm stuck in the first person and the only characters I can think of are him and me. Which totally sucks. Big time.

All I can think of is getting it in real time and that's never going to happen. Also makes for a shit story. The Unfulfilled Horny Bitch...

 

[Boxlicker101]

My biggest obstacle to writing this year has been writing.

I'm being cyber pounded by a gorgeous man I met on my travels who lives 14,000k's away. Now I'm stuck in the first person and the only characters I can think of are him and me. Which totally sucks. Big time.

All I can think of is getting it in real time and that's never going to happen. Also makes for a shit story. The Unfulfilled Horny Bitch...

Why don't you write stories about you and him, either true or your wildly erotic fantasies? After all, the stories don't have to be true.

 

[Trudy_Antone]

Why don't you write stories about you and him, either true or your wildly erotic fantasies? After all, the stories don't have to be true.

I just posted one of my letters to him, called 'Heartless'.

People were shocked by the hardcore, abusive content. Something I never really thought about because we just fell into it (started with spanking, ended up in weird BDSM), and knowing it's a fantasy doesn't mean that readers perceive it as a fantasy.

It tanked as my worst scoring piece ever.