Update, questions and stuff. · 11:51pm Feb 26th, 2014
Good news, everyone!(*) The next chapter of Visiting Hours is finally drafted!
I should publish the finalized version in a day or two, unless life happens. After that, I'll probably get to work on the Shores of Tartarus again, or on another unfinished fic that has been a work in progress for way, way, wayyyyyy longer than it should have. Either way, I'll try to get something out in less than 3 months.
Now, to ramble a while... I am exceedingly slow as a writer. Even this blog post is going to take me at least an hour (not joking here). In one part, it is because I feel the need to think about pretty much every single word I write and pick the best phrasing all the time. Also, my writing process involves a lot of breaks (going from 5 minutes to a day or two) during which I try to think up the next scene I have to write, ending up with much more time doing "nothing" than typing. Now that's not a huge problem. That's how I function, I can't change myself completely, nor do I want to.
My problem is that often, I end up stuck on scenes that are not interesting to write. I'm not talking about the boring stuff that I can remove, I never do any kind of padding, since I tend to naturally skip anything that's unneccessary and uninteresting (to me, at least. readers may disagree).
What I'm talking about are the boring scenes that are necessary to a story. Like transition chapters that do nothing except move the plot forward, because it has to at some point. Or scenes where I set up future plot points, try to do foreshadowing, introduce red herrings, all that kind of stuff... Those are the parts that really stump me: I actually have to force myself to write those, and it always takes forever, because I procrastinate like crazy. I began that last chapter of Visiting Hourse around Christmas. It doesn't take me two months to write around 15k words. I'm slow, but not that slow. The thing is, I've left it to collect virtual dust in my google drive for almost a month, because I just didn't feel like writing a boring scene.
So, here comes the question part (finally!). I'm sure many of you guys reading this write fics too, so do you have any tips on how to beat the boredom? Do you just force yourselves? Do you get a friend to punch you every day that you don't write? Do you hire children in third-world country to do it for you? How expensive is that?
Well, that's it. Even if you don't have any answer, thanks for reading. While I'm giving thanks, I'd like to mention Jet Cannon. That guy reads and comments on almost everything I write, so thank you, dude, it's nice to know that there's at least one person who reads my stuff.
For the others, and if you haven't read it already, check out his story The Truth, it's pretty neat.
And before I go to bed, let's have some ridiculous music.
(*) True story: I began to seriously learn English in a large part for Futurama, so I could watch it with the original dub. The French dub is that bad. And it should feel bad.
Damn, that's some serious dedication you have there. Learn a language just to understand a cartoon in its native language? Fair play, young warrior, fair play.
As for your actual question: God, how I wish I knew.
I suffer from the exact same problems, and sound about as skilled in overcoming them as you, if not worse! 
Tonight is actually somewhat exceptional, because I have forced myself to finish (more or less) a ~3k oneshot which has been sitting, mostly done, in my documents ever since Simple Ways aired. And, having just read the wiki page for it, I have realised that I've made a mistake that goes in the face of a detail of said episode. Off to fix it now!
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Mostly, it got me used to watching TV shows in English. And then there were ponies!
Well, I didn't start from nothing just for Futurama. I learned in school and I could read average texts, but I couldn't really understand spoken English. After watching every episode at least ten times, I finally got it
Anyways, at least I know I'm not the only one to let my stories rot for ages... If I find a solution, I'll let you know
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