A good while ago, I started idly writing backstory for Belial (working title: "Ephemera"), attempting to explain how se wound up so disenchanted with heaven and got hir particular obsessions about sex and truth and sin and emotional bonds.
It is currently about 6,600 words long and has split into a three-chaptered thing instead of a one-shot. *headdesk*
On the one hand, this is good because it's more interesting, involves a lot more characters, is less of a blatant "and here's why se was vulnerable to Lucifer's words!" pop psych analysis, and allows me to play around with theories about the history of heaven and hell and so on. On the other hand, jesus, this was only meant to be a short fiddle to amuse myself! Where did I go wrong?
Anyway, chapter 1 is done in rough draft, but I'm going to sit on it until I'm much further along with chapter 2, because I do still conceive of this as an extended one-shot (albeit in three parts) and I want to make sure all the thematic stuff matches up tidily at the edges.
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Am now heading out into the cold and damp to run several errands. Bah. Aside from the absolute extremes of hot and cold, 35 to 40 degrees with wind and rain is the worst weather imaginable.
It is currently about 6,600 words long and has split into a three-chaptered thing instead of a one-shot. *headdesk*
On the one hand, this is good because it's more interesting, involves a lot more characters, is less of a blatant "and here's why se was vulnerable to Lucifer's words!" pop psych analysis, and allows me to play around with theories about the history of heaven and hell and so on. On the other hand, jesus, this was only meant to be a short fiddle to amuse myself! Where did I go wrong?
Anyway, chapter 1 is done in rough draft, but I'm going to sit on it until I'm much further along with chapter 2, because I do still conceive of this as an extended one-shot (albeit in three parts) and I want to make sure all the thematic stuff matches up tidily at the edges.
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Am now heading out into the cold and damp to run several errands. Bah. Aside from the absolute extremes of hot and cold, 35 to 40 degrees with wind and rain is the worst weather imaginable.
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Date: 2008-10-22 06:53 pm (UTC)(Saying that just feels wrong but nevertheless...)
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Date: 2008-10-22 11:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-22 07:12 pm (UTC)See, this is why you're great to have around.
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Date: 2008-10-22 11:14 pm (UTC)