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Mar. 28th, 2012
... that's really just smacking me down.
My problem is long fic. The longer it gets, the more out of control it gets. So, I've been flipping this fic around in my head for maybe four years. It's not working out and I don't know if I should scrap it. I don't often like to talk about fic that I'm writing while I'm writing it because then I have to be all articulate about things that I maybe haven't fully worked out yet. And yes, I realize that I am losing punctuation all over the place. I'm sleepy, yo! In fact I WILL be in bed in five. Only an hour later than I was supposed to be.
Anyway,
I am writing a BtVS/Wizard of Oz/Wicked/The Red Shoes x-over crack!fic. I have a lot of parts. I now how it is supposed to go. I know how it ends. I'm pretty comfortable with how it starts. It's all the middle stuff and the execution that is sucking. That and getting everything on paper so that it *fits*. There are too many characters, and maybe, too many voices. POV's are becoming problematic. This reminds me nothing if not like writing One Thousand Kisses Deep and The Presence of Departed Acts. More ambitious than I have a right to be.
I feel like if I can get this knocked out, then I can move over to other things. Like the Katniss/Rue Hunger Games ficlet, or the Shane/Rick/Lori post-18 Miles Out Walking Dead fic, or the Dollhouse/BtVS/AtS xover fic, or the PWP Pogue/bad-guy-whathisname Covenant fic.
Why do I feel so screwed? And not in the fun way, either.
My problem is long fic. The longer it gets, the more out of control it gets. So, I've been flipping this fic around in my head for maybe four years. It's not working out and I don't know if I should scrap it. I don't often like to talk about fic that I'm writing while I'm writing it because then I have to be all articulate about things that I maybe haven't fully worked out yet. And yes, I realize that I am losing punctuation all over the place. I'm sleepy, yo! In fact I WILL be in bed in five. Only an hour later than I was supposed to be.
Anyway,
I am writing a BtVS/Wizard of Oz/Wicked/The Red Shoes x-over crack!fic. I have a lot of parts. I now how it is supposed to go. I know how it ends. I'm pretty comfortable with how it starts. It's all the middle stuff and the execution that is sucking. That and getting everything on paper so that it *fits*. There are too many characters, and maybe, too many voices. POV's are becoming problematic. This reminds me nothing if not like writing One Thousand Kisses Deep and The Presence of Departed Acts. More ambitious than I have a right to be.
I feel like if I can get this knocked out, then I can move over to other things. Like the Katniss/Rue Hunger Games ficlet, or the Shane/Rick/Lori post-18 Miles Out Walking Dead fic, or the Dollhouse/BtVS/AtS xover fic, or the PWP Pogue/bad-guy-whathisname Covenant fic.
Why do I feel so screwed? And not in the fun way, either.
