Writers Block

[annwfyn]

I have nothing to say about Byzantine silverwear.

*whimpers*

You can tell it's Fifth Week. My brain appears to have taken sick leave and left the rest of me in the lurch. My inspiration has gone the way of the Tasmanian tiger* and I'm beginning to worry that I'm turning narcopleptic. Sleep is seeming more appealing by the minute.

On the plus side I've now written an Oxford DC report, booked the venue for the next game, written half of chapter 2 of the extended story I'm working on, sorted out all the paperwork for my operation and booked an appointment with my GP to get the certificate for Oxford University saying that I've been in hospital and can they not beat me with sticks for leaving the city without permission.

I'm just failing badly to get this essay written.

What is there to say? There is silver. It shines. Sometimes it gets buried. Then it gets dug up hundreds of year later.

Does anyone think that would make a reasonable Fifth Week essay?


*It might still be alive and well, hiding far from the prying eyes of man, but as far as all empirical evidence can tell it looks rather extinct.

Comments

[isalani.livejournal.com]

So the one who likes shiney stuff - can't write about it.

amsuing from this side of things but doesn't help you much

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

It is mildly frustrating to be looking at as many pretty pictures as I am looking at, thinking 'oooh...shiny' and then not having a clue what I am meant to be saying.

I want my nice manuscripts back! There was loads to say about them!

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Does anyone think that would make a reasonable Fifth Week essay?

'Yes'.

:)

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

Where did the silver come from? How was it worked? What do the patterns on it mean? Is it an evolution of earlier silverware? Is it the ancestor of later silverware styles? What was it used for? How did it fit in with pottery, goldsmithing and other stuffu? Is it decorative or utilitarian? Was it only for the rich, or did everyone have some? Where else did it end up in the world and how did it get there? What sort of death-traps normally protect it and how can they be circumvented?

And if your brain is the Tasmanian Tiger, is there are were-Sally'sBrain out there like the Bunyip? And did werewolves kill it?

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

I thought you might understand. :p

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Somehow, claiming that werewolves killed my brain makes total sense.

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

For some unknowable reason, this is not an acceptable excuse for exam boards to review your marks for.

Remember "shiny, shiny, shiny, shiny..."

[jo-english-bint.livejournal.com]

Erm, you could add it's chemical symbol (Ag).

oh, I Know... it's shiny too!

*bows head in shame* sorry.

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

It is my belief that nobody who has not been through Oxford can truly comprehend the Wrong that is Fifth Week.

Hahaha! Thesaurus.com to the rescue

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

You could say it's: abstruse, arduous, convoluted, daedal, difficult, difficult, elaborate, entangled, fancy, gasser, gordian, hard, hi tech, interlaced, intricate, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, mega factor, mind blower, mixed, perplexing, problematic, puzzling, rat's nest, recondite, snake pit, sophisticated, troublesome, various

From here (http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=byzantine)

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Bah! How can you have written half of Chapter 2 already?

When I'm stuck somewhere in the middle of Chapter 1, and after an afternoon's hard graft was feeling a sense of achievement for the les-than-500 words of Chapter 2 I'd got done. Curse you!

[ksirafai.livejournal.com]

Agh.

ST report.

*beats head with table*

Tomorrow, I swear to god, or I'm getting it tattooed on my hand...

[kimkali.livejournal.com]

It's shiny!
It is often intricately decorated.
They have some of it in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
It's expensive.
It's shiny!