Mun hasn't worked on the fanfic in awhile due to Writer's Block and it has angered a muse...

[you_schweinhund]

 "Oh aren't you quite zhe desperate little whiner, Mun. Zid you know zhat vhat you have is called impatience. Maybe if took a valk in zhat...shitty neighborhood you live in...zhen maybe you vill get zhe inspiration you vould need in order for you to finally put me into zhat sleeping fanfic of yours?"

The amusement held upon Nikolaus's face is anything but true amusement. His sarcasm is coated with irritation and is heavily drunk on impatience. He, just like the Mun, is impatient of the fact that he hasn't appeared in the fanfic yet.

"Seriously, you schweinhund, you have been vorking on zhis gott forsaken piece of shit for months. Get yourself on zhe vork already. Your vork is nozhing compared to vhat I have been zoing."

Nikolaus, however, is bored, he has been wanting to get out and play with people. He would love to fuck around and actually start his way on getting to know other people. 

"I vould love to see some ozher players in zhis field...if I am right, you put little Wilhelm into zhe field. Vhy not me? Hm? It was bound to happen. Besides, he's dull and boring. Zhat stick in zhe mud...I really can't vait to somehow talk to him. Vouldn't zhat be veird? It vould be as zhough zhat you vill be talking and writing to yourself. Like zhe mad nut of a loner you are vith your impatience and zhis whining excuses of writer's block."

Everything coming out of the muse's mouth are cutthroat and strictly on the truth.

"I just hope zhat zhere are much more amusing people here zhen inside zhat sick head of yours...huh...sick. You know zhat somezhing is inzeed wrong vhen one of your maddest muse labels you as mentally sick. Do you job zhough. Get me into zhat storyline, zhen maybe I vill actually praise for zhe lazy und uninspiring schweinhund you are."

The mun is hurt, but Nikolaus is telling the truth, just coated with icicles and harsh unnecessary details. 

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[alanwake]

Writers block, huh? Sounds like someone needs a vacation.

[you_schweinhund]

"My Mun does not need anozher vone of her...vacation. How hard is it to type vords? She's just dragging zhis out vhen it doesn't need to be..."

[alanwake]

I'd say it's pretty easy most of the time from my experience, but then again I do this stuff for a living. Like I said, a vacation usually helps. If she ever went to Bright Falls, I guarantee she will never have writers block again.

[you_schweinhund]

"Bright Falls? Vhy zhere? Vhy not anyvhere else? Vhat makes zhat place so special?" Nikolaus might be angry at his own mun but he wants to know what the named one specific place.

[alanwake]

[ well, special isn't exactly the word he'd use to describe that place but... ]

It's a place my wife took me a long time ago when I had writers block. We stayed in a place with a nice lake view. It was peaceful, [ when it wasn't trying to kill you ] but that's about it where it ended. Even so, that place has it's "ways" of bringing a story out of anyone. [ darkness chasing you, evil spirits, good times. ]

[you_schweinhund]

"It vas peaceful? Vhat ended vhere? Zhe peacefulness? Zhe nice view?" Nikolaus doesn't like the sound of the holes filling up this story. "How zid it bring a story out of you? Can you share zhe...vays you just spoke of?" The mun ,however, isn't crazy enough to go to fucking Bright Falls. Why not just tell her to go to fucking Silent Hill or Raccoon City?

[alanwake]

All of the above. I have an answer if you have the time, though you probably won't believe me. The short story is that it cured my writers block for good and is the inspiration for my next novel.

[you_schweinhund]

"No no, please go on. Time is all I have in zhis place. I vould love to hear how your writer's block vas healed...maybe zhen zhe Mun will finally put me on zhe plot line, instead of zhe brainstorming table."

[alanwake]

It started with the whole life getting in the way routine. I couldn’t pull myself out of a figurative ditch that I had inadvertently dug myself. My wife said that place would be perfect for inspiration, and she was right. To put it bluntly, it was a real life horror story. The place was run by darkness, though it’s not dark all of the time. One thing lead to another and eventually turned into a real shit storm. I nearly lost everything. Do I regret any of it? Not in the least. That place showed me a lot things; Things about life and about myself that I never would have figured out without it. It showed me what I was running from and how I lost myself along the way. That's how it ended; As an invaluable life lesson and I came out stronger from it all. As long as you have the light, you’ll be fine. That was my way out. That’s what makes that place different from anywhere else.

Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that sometimes the worse places bring out the best stories. Identifying what's holding you back is a good start to defeating a writers block.

[shhhhh_secret]

My mun tinks zat yours shouldn't worry too much. Writer-types can be perfectionists who spend so much time planning zat ze execution falters. Besides, life happens. People change. Sometimes eet eez no longer possible to be een ze same state of mind zat eenspired a story to begin wiz, and you simply have to walk away.

(Beat.)

Sometimes you just have to murder your darlings, as eet were.

((OOC: I know those feels! So many unfinished stories, so little mental energy to work on them. /sobs))

[you_schweinhund]

"Perfectionists?! My mun? Oh mein gott! You are--you are quite hilarious! Bitte--don't dumb yourself down vith such lies!" Nikolaus's laughter is loud and obnoxious, but it all comes to a strict halt as his cool blue eyes fixed themselves upon the BLU Spy, "However, zhat murder of zhese...darlings...sounds quite promising. Vhere are zhey and vhat can I do to get mein hands on zhem?" Nikolaus might be off, but his slang of vocabulary is small and with his personality, he takes everything literally. "Are zhey your lovers or somezhing? If so--you must have a new vone every day."

((OOC: I've wrote the next capture but--I'm unhappy with it. It's terrible :[ Writer's Block happening doesn't help now either. All I can do is keep my ideas on a word doc. DX))

[you_schweinhund]

Nikolaus was listening but slowly began to lose himself in his own thought upon the idea of a place being run by darkness. It almost sounded like something out of a fairy tale, but in the end, what he was doing was something that would make the real Grimm's tale look like happy ending to the norms and the bores. "...I see...I do know about zhe...mun herself but..I am fairly interested in zhis place..." How he wished to go somewhere which would help him re-spark the interest and excitement he once held in his life. "Light? Zhat is all I need? Hm...but zhe question is...how do I get zhere?" Nikolaus officially has lost interest in his mun putting him into the fanfic, he wants to go to Bright Falls. The mun however, really doesn't give a flying fuck. Bright Falls is a piece of shit horror place she isn't willing to go near, nope, not even a single shred of interest is in her mind of ever even thinking of going there. She'll just suffer this boredom of a Writer's Block the old fashion way.

[shhhhh_secret]

I speak metaphorically. Your mun may grow to realize zat she has become too attached to ideas zat are better left unwritten. Zis can be words, lines of dialogue, scenes, or perhaps even entire stories.

My mun has left quite ze "graveyard" of old and unfinished works.

(Beat.)

Of course, I prefer ze corpses I leave to be more substantial, but zat iz why I work for BLU.

((OOC: Yup, been there, done that, got the T-shirt.))

[alanwake]

Last I recall it's in the pacific northwest of the United States, [ unofficially ] Washington state. The location is obscured and one hell of a trip, but you can't really miss it. Keep going until you see a large body of water. You'll need to take a boat from there. There'll be a bridge, that's when you know you've reached it.

[ Seriously, Alan? Is this really happening you are telling this poor soul how to get to friggen Bright Falls? This is why I can't leave you alone... and with large sums of alcohol which you will be paying me for. Oh, and for the record (Alan), there are way better ways to get inspiration like say... Walk in the woods, beach vacation, and pretty much anything other than Bright Falls. ]

[you_schweinhund]

Nikolaus is interested, and he may actually plan this trip, "Zhat iz very specific of you, I vill check it out and vhen I come back, zhat iz if I haven't consumed and fallen in love wizh zhe place...I vill tell you how it vent. For me. My mun vouldn't even set foot on zhat type of place. I mean for me? It sounds very delightful, more for me to look into...I guess mein own demons in a vay? Darkness. Who knows vhat I vill see." The mun is shaking her head, Nikolaus, she can imagine him dying there laughing. He was too damaged mentally in the mun's point of view that she can see him fearing the darkness. Something that she feared when she checked out Bright Falls. The Mun can easily go out and go for a run or even go to the local library to get her Writer's Block taken care of. Nikolaus, however--"I have my own block to handle...maybe zhis trip vill help. If it doesn't, zhen I vill make sure to fuckin' make sure zhat you know about it."

[you_schweinhund]

"Vell I vouldn't take any less--seeing as maybe if she vere to fuck my entrance one. Zhen I hope zhat it doesn't even make it into zhat website she uses to whore both Wilhelm anz I." Nikolaus didn't care much for Wilhelm when it came to dignity sake, but to himself, he found that being shared without a proper set-up for anyone was something they shouldn't deserve at any cost. "I prefer zhem breazhing...live and vell. Of course zhe minor bruises and cuts, maybe even zhe broken bone may happen, but zhat is nozhing but more zhings to tinker vith. Maybe mein curiosity iz vhy I am still vorking for zhe BLU."

((ooc: I want a T-Shirt "Got Writer's Block? Go to Bright Falls!" only a something that is happening in my mind due to the event going on with an RP upstairs of this one))

[shhhhh_secret]

(Decides not to tell him about how muns can and will rewrite backstory at a whim.)

I'm more of a knife fan myself. Quick, quiet, and extremely visceral.

[alanwake]

I hope you find what you're looking for. Just remember, light, and lots of it. A flare gun or two doesn't hurt either.

Good luck.