wherein Liz blathers a bit about writing
Mar. 4th, 2020 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingI got really into writing at work during February, which is partly because both my jobs involve periods of "you are SUPER BUSY RIGHT NOW" interspersed with long periods where I just sit at my desk doing nothing in particular, so filling those interstitial periods with writing is an obvious move.
But it's also because the Three Sentence Ficathon is a particularly good fit for that kind of writing environment. It's all short, bite-sized things that mostly fit into a single slow period, rather than a longer work where you have to mentally keep your place in the story even while you are off showing an apartment, processing a large package delivery, doing somebody's tax return, wrangling an interminable phone call, etc.
Now I am trying to wrangle longer stories in between actual Work Events, and the constant stop-start is getting kind of annoying. *sigh*
But I persevere! Today, for instance, I went back and tweaked some earlier material in the untitled Narnia bridge fic both to better explain the sawmill (which I'd realized was kind of oddly situated) and to better lead in to what I now think will be the story conclusion. And then I wrote more fish-out-of-water stuff with a tax auditor trying to interview a naiad who doesn't know a damn thing about taxes or tax evasion, because that amuses me greatly. :)
This is going to wind up as one of my longest standalone Narnia fics by the time it's done, which is ridiculous for something I started writing as a tossed-off meditation on "but bridges are USEFUL, goshdarnit; you can't run a functional medieval country, let alone an early modern country, with nothing but fords and ferries." *hands* What can I say -- brains are weird, and I am willing to follow stories down some pretty random tangents so long as I have some sense that the threads will pull back together eventually.
But it's also because the Three Sentence Ficathon is a particularly good fit for that kind of writing environment. It's all short, bite-sized things that mostly fit into a single slow period, rather than a longer work where you have to mentally keep your place in the story even while you are off showing an apartment, processing a large package delivery, doing somebody's tax return, wrangling an interminable phone call, etc.
Now I am trying to wrangle longer stories in between actual Work Events, and the constant stop-start is getting kind of annoying. *sigh*
But I persevere! Today, for instance, I went back and tweaked some earlier material in the untitled Narnia bridge fic both to better explain the sawmill (which I'd realized was kind of oddly situated) and to better lead in to what I now think will be the story conclusion. And then I wrote more fish-out-of-water stuff with a tax auditor trying to interview a naiad who doesn't know a damn thing about taxes or tax evasion, because that amuses me greatly. :)
This is going to wind up as one of my longest standalone Narnia fics by the time it's done, which is ridiculous for something I started writing as a tossed-off meditation on "but bridges are USEFUL, goshdarnit; you can't run a functional medieval country, let alone an early modern country, with nothing but fords and ferries." *hands* What can I say -- brains are weird, and I am willing to follow stories down some pretty random tangents so long as I have some sense that the threads will pull back together eventually.
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