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Yuletide writing progress report, part 2
Dec. 17th, 2009 03:00 amHave finished Yuletide story.
Well, more accurately, I hit all the points I wanted to hit in said story (to some degree, at least), and kind of threw up my hands and said, "Ending! Now!" and half-assed a lame conclusion onto it.
It rambles horribly, in thematic terms. Way too much thinking, not enough doing. Also, I lost half the original intention of the story somewhere along the way -- unfortunately, it was the half that met my recipient's optional details rather than the half that plays into my current obsession with a specific character and associated world-building (world-explication? whatever). Must figure out how to dredge that particular theme up again and make it stronger. Must also integrate surprise angsty development into story so it does not overwhelm everything else or jolt readers out of the narrative and make them go "...seriously, Liz, what the fuck???" at me.
Still. Words are on the page. And it is much easier (for me, anyway) to fix something that already exists than to create something out of nothing.
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Bed now. I have to be awake for potential calls on Thursday.
Well, more accurately, I hit all the points I wanted to hit in said story (to some degree, at least), and kind of threw up my hands and said, "Ending! Now!" and half-assed a lame conclusion onto it.
It rambles horribly, in thematic terms. Way too much thinking, not enough doing. Also, I lost half the original intention of the story somewhere along the way -- unfortunately, it was the half that met my recipient's optional details rather than the half that plays into my current obsession with a specific character and associated world-building (world-explication? whatever). Must figure out how to dredge that particular theme up again and make it stronger. Must also integrate surprise angsty development into story so it does not overwhelm everything else or jolt readers out of the narrative and make them go "...seriously, Liz, what the fuck???" at me.
Still. Words are on the page. And it is much easier (for me, anyway) to fix something that already exists than to create something out of nothing.
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Bed now. I have to be awake for potential calls on Thursday.
