Good luck breaking back into writing! It's so frustrating when it isn't working, but I'm sure you'll manage.
I think you may be right: people don't write pairings that are too obvious because there's less challenge in them. I know that I rarely feel the need to write for canonical pairings, even if they're pairings I enjoy; perhaps that's a similar thing. (And then there's Scrubs, where JD/Turk is incredibly, ridiculously obvious and yet barely gets written.)
Also, specifically with regard to Peep Show, there's the problem of the format. Do you try to keep the point-of-view, hearing-the-characters' thoughts style of the actual episodes? If so, how do you translate that into writing?
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I think you may be right: people don't write pairings that are too obvious because there's less challenge in them. I know that I rarely feel the need to write for canonical pairings, even if they're pairings I enjoy; perhaps that's a similar thing. (And then there's Scrubs, where JD/Turk is incredibly, ridiculously obvious and yet barely gets written.)
Also, specifically with regard to Peep Show, there's the problem of the format. Do you try to keep the point-of-view, hearing-the-characters' thoughts style of the actual episodes? If so, how do you translate that into writing?