Writer's block

I am staring at a blank document.

No writing is coming.

Any suggestions to get the creative juices flowing?

When rabid plot bunnies attack

Well my writer's block just died an ignoble death. First line of the story I just started:

Trouble walked into town wearing skintight blue jeans and a pair of cowboy boots.

It only gets worse from there.

*laughs manically*

ravensghost asked "What ever happened to that romance writer and his dragon?" Huh. Was there any more to be written on that story? I opened it up, reread the story, and wrote a few idle questions I came up with in a document. One really struck me.

Why is it called Wyvern's Rest?

WHUMP! Attacked by plot bunnies. I wrote a snippet and then saw the train wreck coming. It promises to be interesting.

( Teaser, Wyvern's Rest )

Yeah dude. I wouldn't bet on it. XD

RAGE!

I am so pissed I could cry (again).

Dell sent me a new laptop. It arrived today. It is useless. Seriously, I have a very expensive paperweight. The problems?

First, it's about four inches wider, a good inch thicker and 3-5 pounds heavier than my last laptop. My last laptop was not a small laptop by any stretch of the imagination. I got my backpack laptop bag in the largest size possible and my previous laptop barely fit. Even with it fitting, it was heavy to carry around. This means that the new laptop will not fit. I can't carry it around in my hands either because it's so heavy that if I try to carry it one handed to do anything, it will bend my wrist back. That is if this thing didn't completely throw my back out.

The keyboard? Impossible to use. It's so far back that my arms/wrists bang into the lower part of the laptop when I try to type. Why is the keyboard so far back? Because the only way to control the curser is with the touch pad. There is no track point. While this might not be a problem for most people, I do map digitizing and AutoCAD on my laptop. I need it to be precise and I need to be able to use the keyboard at the same time as I move the curser to get my work done. It's impossible to do that on that thing.


I can't type on the replacement laptop, which means no writing. I can't do any of the school or work on it either. The only thing I could do would be surf the web and hell, I'd be better off with a desktop machine if that's all I wanted to do. At least then I could arrange the keyboard so that I wouldn't hurt my arms typing and I'd have the added bonus of a nicer machine to boot. But that's not what I need. I need a computer that I can take to my classes and actually use.

Fuck. I hate Dell at this moment.