Writer's Block

It's amazing what things will cause the juices to flow, and what not. This a.m. I've spent doing end-of-year self-appraisal, which is one of those regular events that really causes the flow of words to dry up. It's not even the sort of thing that can be worked around by cut-and-paste.

On a lighter note, I'm now about 3500 words - about 1/3 the way - into the latest chapter of Castles in the Sky, the words coming in slow fits and starts since the summer. Meanwhile on Sunday last I just dashed off 2500 words of Dirty Pair fanfic in a couple of hours. Ease and merit of writing output don't correlate.