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edenfallingAfter dithering around for a few weeks, a couple false starts, no less than four separate outlines, and a lot of mental story element juggling (which produced a rather nice bit of prop continuity), I finally started writing my RemixRedux story Sunday night. I wrote another 550 words Monday night, bringing me to 1,750 total. I think this is maybe 1/5 to 1/4 of the way through the story if I'm lucky, but it's probably more like 1/6 to 1/5, knowing me and my tendency for scenes to expand without asking permission beforehand. *headdesk*
I thought this was the 'easy' option of the two stories I wanted to try remixing, but the thing was, while I knew right off the bat whose POV to use and roughly what I wanted my thematic point to be, I couldn't find the right structural framework. (I can sometimes write without a particular structure in mind, but those are generally more narrative-oriented stories rather than theme-oriented stories. If there is a theme, I get very picky about structure.) Last week the structure finally came clear, after which I waited a day to make sure the story felt properly 'alive' in my mind, and then wrote the final outline.
Anyway, I plan to get most of the writing done Tuesday with touchups on Wednesday, since Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights will be eaten by Susan's visit and will thus be generally useless for writing. (It's kind of rude to vanish into a computer room for hours at a time when you have guests, or at least that's how I see it.)
The upshot of this is that I will need a beta on Thursday or Friday. If anyone is willing to read a probably 8,000-12,000 word story (look, I said my stories tend to expand on me without warning!) and get it back to me Sunday afternoon, drop a comment with your email so I can give you more details in private.
(I am not sure why I am bothering to be this secretive -- this story is so obviously filled with my personal phrasing quirks, and my character preferences and thematic obsessions for the canon in question, that anyone who knows my previous work and reads it will immediately know I am the author -- but the rules are the rules, ne?)
I thought this was the 'easy' option of the two stories I wanted to try remixing, but the thing was, while I knew right off the bat whose POV to use and roughly what I wanted my thematic point to be, I couldn't find the right structural framework. (I can sometimes write without a particular structure in mind, but those are generally more narrative-oriented stories rather than theme-oriented stories. If there is a theme, I get very picky about structure.) Last week the structure finally came clear, after which I waited a day to make sure the story felt properly 'alive' in my mind, and then wrote the final outline.
Anyway, I plan to get most of the writing done Tuesday with touchups on Wednesday, since Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights will be eaten by Susan's visit and will thus be generally useless for writing. (It's kind of rude to vanish into a computer room for hours at a time when you have guests, or at least that's how I see it.)
The upshot of this is that I will need a beta on Thursday or Friday. If anyone is willing to read a probably 8,000-12,000 word story (look, I said my stories tend to expand on me without warning!) and get it back to me Sunday afternoon, drop a comment with your email so I can give you more details in private.
(I am not sure why I am bothering to be this secretive -- this story is so obviously filled with my personal phrasing quirks, and my character preferences and thematic obsessions for the canon in question, that anyone who knows my previous work and reads it will immediately know I am the author -- but the rules are the rules, ne?)
