So, after much stress and bribing the kids to let me type in peace, I finally finished my latest entry for the tourney at http://community.livejournal.com/sg_fic_uoa/

And there was much rejoicing.

At one point I was complete stuck. I asked Don "Do I write 'boring explanatory part' or should I skip to 'exiting action scene'? He said "Write what's easy and then go back and fill in the rest."

But here's the thing... I can't write like that. I'm very much a "Write this part, and then this is what's going to happen, and then the third part" writer. I can't skip to part number three if part number two is not finished yet. My brain doesn't work that way, and I don't really enjoy writing out of sequence. Unfortunately, this means that if I'm stuck on one part, then nothing gets done.

So, next time I'll *try* it Don's way. Who knows, maybe I can find a way to make it work.

(Also, I realized that if I, the writer, thinks a part is boring, I just shouldn't write it at all. So that's what I did to get past the block.)