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Ok. So after admitting to wrongness -- if you don't know don't ask because I am mildly embarrassed by the whole thing -- my next question is very basic, straight forward and only mildly academic around the edges borders. (See how I have a sense of humor.)
How do you re-enter a fic that you've been away from for a significant amount of time?
I'm writing something for the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
lynnevitational. It's a piece that I started months ago and put aside because I had no real idea of where it was going. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kormantic and tkp helped tremendously by doing a preliminary beta and gave me a list of questions and notes that have since helped me to focus my ideas for the fic. However, and here's the really jacked up part, I've lost the rhythmic thread.
You guys know how I write. There's is, with few exceptions, always a heavy sense of rhythm in my writing, a cadence. The Angel post-NFA piece that I'm working on is a typical example of my writing. Heavy on imagery, lots of rhythm. Problem is that now, although I can *hear* the pattern, I can't seem to reproduce it.
I know where I want to go, but I can't quite seem to get there. I can't figure out how to *say* what I want because I'm having difficulty mimicking the pattern already in place and that is how I write. I *hear* everything and it sounds a certain way.
So, I need suggestions. What do you guys do to re-connect with a piece that you've been on hiatus from?
I've tried music. I did have some luck with the soundtrack from The Last Temptation of Christ and also with some of Enigma's earlier tracks. Tonight I'll give the Xena soundtrack a shot and perhaps Lily and the Lamb. I think I've also got a tape of Balady music from a Belly dancing class I took awhile ago. I also have the soundtrack from Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. Somehow, I feel that the Lord of the Rings soundtracks might be useful, but I'm not sure.
Anyway, I'd like to know what do you guys do to break through that wall of time and distance to re-capture the sen for a fic that you've been away from.
Help me out.
How do you re-enter a fic that you've been away from for a significant amount of time?
I'm writing something for the
lynnevitational. It's a piece that I started months ago and put aside because I had no real idea of where it was going. kormantic and tkp helped tremendously by doing a preliminary beta and gave me a list of questions and notes that have since helped me to focus my ideas for the fic. However, and here's the really jacked up part, I've lost the rhythmic thread.You guys know how I write. There's is, with few exceptions, always a heavy sense of rhythm in my writing, a cadence. The Angel post-NFA piece that I'm working on is a typical example of my writing. Heavy on imagery, lots of rhythm. Problem is that now, although I can *hear* the pattern, I can't seem to reproduce it.
I know where I want to go, but I can't quite seem to get there. I can't figure out how to *say* what I want because I'm having difficulty mimicking the pattern already in place and that is how I write. I *hear* everything and it sounds a certain way.
So, I need suggestions. What do you guys do to re-connect with a piece that you've been on hiatus from?
I've tried music. I did have some luck with the soundtrack from The Last Temptation of Christ and also with some of Enigma's earlier tracks. Tonight I'll give the Xena soundtrack a shot and perhaps Lily and the Lamb. I think I've also got a tape of Balady music from a Belly dancing class I took awhile ago. I also have the soundtrack from Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. Somehow, I feel that the Lord of the Rings soundtracks might be useful, but I'm not sure.
Anyway, I'd like to know what do you guys do to break through that wall of time and distance to re-capture the sen for a fic that you've been away from.
Help me out.
