To me it has nothing to do with the motivation, its the story more than anything else. I've had stories that I thought would be hard practically write themselves and others were herding cats(like writing a short story where Sheppard is reflecting on his friendship with Ronon. Oh yes, lets write an introspective story about a friendship between two men that don't talk about their feelings at all. What the he** was I thinking? LOL)

I'm also not convinced that it has to do with what type of story we're "good" at writing or enjoy writing either because my herding cats stories have crossed the spectrum from character pieces to action and so have my "cutting warm butter" stories.

Something to ponder, eh? It has to be story specific in some way. maybe the storyline and content?

But yay on being over 40K on your H/C story. And here I thought I was doing good at crossing 3K on mine! LOL!!