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Mel King x Frank Langdon | 13k | Explicit

He should leave it at that. He should leave, period. They’re skating on the edge of a line so thin it might as well be nonexistent, but it’s there. There is a way that this moment ends and nothing much changes between them. There is a way for them to go back to everything being the way it was before, the way it should be. The right way. The safe way. They can go back to being work friends, or whatever it is that they are, and this night can just be a vaguely awkward memory. It starts with him stepping back. It starts with him saying goodnight. It starts with him heading towards the door. It starts with… “Hey, listen to me.” He takes her gently by the chin to coax her to look at him. When she does, when he’s certain she’s listening to him, he says, low and quiet and just for her, “You are easy to love.” Then, because she doesn’t pull away, and because she’s looking up at him in a way that makes something physical and real ache in a part of his chest that’s felt cold and empty for a long time, and because he’s never been very good at impulse control, he kisses her on the cheek.

The Eleventh Hour

Commander Shepard, sci-fi Cassandra

Write crap.

No really. Buy yourself a notebook or open a doc and label it "Complete Shit." Spend at least five minutes a day forcing yourself to add to it. If you can't do it every day, try doing it three times a week. If you can't do it three times a week, try to schedule it at least once a week. But you gotta make yourself try at least once a week to write something.

This writing doesn't matter. You don't have to fix typos or fiddle with punctuation. You are just going to sit down, write literally anything for five minutes, and go about your day. Try some writing prompts. Describe your mediocre breakfast. Talk about your cat. Write a songfic. You can and will get through this, but you've got to not give up.

Everyone goes through this, and the only way through it is to weather it out. However, if you don't make yourself sit down and write as often as you can, this funk can sink in and keep you from writing for ages.