eek, to your paper writing woes. I would come spin around in your desk chair, read your paper, snorfle over nothing, and complain over my own lack of wordage if I was your roomie. Anyway that's what I did in undergrad with my roomies and we all had stuff due. It...didn't actually help. *pats*

To continue to be of no help...

I think lots of us in fandom tend to be porn mongerers, even the ones of us who aren't just all about pwps and ships. Fics with sex in them, even fics about sex, can be so much more than just the porn. Yours always are. I find plots (except in long fic) difficult, so often enough my physical plot consists of sex or meetings, while the thematic plots are far more complex.