Hey guys, thought I'd poke my head in!
I've got a little adviceyness! So I'm going to try and be clever and say it normally.
Don't try writing when you're not in 'the mood'. It never works, you go back and think "What the hell did I write that for?" and you only delete it anyway... Well, I do.
I totally agree with sevenpudd's, I watch romantic/comedys (As I have several) and they really put you in the mood! Of course, there's always a bit of anger/pain in the movie (which I love), humour (Makes you smile and laugh) and then... the romance. (Makes you smile and giggle.) And then after you watch it, you're all like "ahhhh" so its a perfect mood to write!
Unless you're just about to brutally attack the characters in your fic..
I have another idea too, try writing about something different. Recently, I've been trying to challenge myself. With the short 'Martha's Secret' fic (That was a challenge and a half! lol) it took a lot of power to write something sad let me tell you!! And now with my current fic, Returning Emotions. I started with... fluff. Yes, fluff. I sounded like a sop, with all the "i love you"'s and there was barely any anger! I'm not a sop person, so this was really hard for me to do. But, I wanted to try different things... Later on in this fic, of course, I get some of my old anger scenes back... but I'm still going to try and keep up with the occasional sop.. even though it won't be as it seems. *wiggles eyebrows* Then I'm going to involve some flashbacks, and develop some different feelings that Jack wouldn't normally have in fics.. Martha usually has them. The whole fic, (after an event soon) is going to be a bit of a flip from a normal JM fic layout, because that'd make it a bit different, and a bit stranger for me to write.
I think challenging yourself is great! Nice and fun. It makes stuff different, and gives you the motivation to carry on and challenge yourself, because you know you're actually achieveing something.