wherein Liz, as always, blathers about stories she should have had finished ages ago

[edenfalling]

I have my computer back. *dances* All my files are okay, and I now have an external hard drive on which to back them up periodically, so if anything goes completely kerflooey again, I should at least be able to work on my stories on other computers.

I am working on my horribly belated Femgen story. As I said, the one about Avalyn Friesen refused to coalesce into workable form -- I had some characters, some incidents, an idea of the timeframe I wanted to use... and no plot. It's hard to write when you don't have a beginning, a middle, or an end. *sigh*

Instead, I am writing about Ariadne as a freshman architecture student at Cornell University, going through the week leading up to Dragon Day, because there is no point living in a town whose resident university has an architecture school with quirky traditions if one doesn't take advantage of that when writing about an architect. *grin* I am up to 2,000 words, and I think the story should be about 5,000 in total. It feels a little weird to be writing a story that is basically contemporary realistic fiction, but there's no real way to bring dreamsharing in at this point in Ariadne's life, except maybe as rumors about promising architecture students occasionally dropping out and just disappearing, or maybe stories about a professor or three having been involved in military black ops back in the day -- things people laugh at and don't really believe, but which, given that this is Inception fic, might actually be true.

When I am done with that, I must finish the GI Joe fic before inspiration abandons me. I still need to do some research for part two (the one where Ana joins the army), after which I can move on to parts three and four, which are much less research-intensive. Part five is probably going to involve military research again, and as for part six... well, hard to say. I will find out when I get there, I suppose. And then it's back to my regularly scheduled procrastination. *sigh*

Comments

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

You're writing for a movie that people who are currently on LJ have both seen and loved. I was a bit surprised (after Googling) to find out that, apparently, no one in the world has posted Sling Blade fic prior to mine. Anywhere. At least not in English.

[edenfalling]

Yeah, there is that benefit to writing Inception fic... though I am not, you will note, writing Arthur/Eames, which is by far the dominant expression of the fandom. (Frankly, I prefer Ariadne/Arthur/Eames, Ariadne/Arthur, or strictly gen team!fic, but that's another post for another day.)

I wanted to write Mysterious Skin fic, mostly just to be contrary -- it was less directly related to my prompt quote, and is a much less "known" canon source -- but alas, that failed to work out.

What is Sling Blade about? I am interested in reading your story, but I have NO knowledge of the movie beyond that, I think, Billy Bob Thornton may have been in it?

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Sling Blade is the story of Karl, a mentally challenged man who has spent 25 years in the criminal ward of a state mental hospital in Arkansas for killing his mother and her lover -- when he was about 12 years old. Eventually he is deemed "cured" and released. He goes back to his home town, gets a job fixing small machines, meets some people... and things progress from there. You can find plenty of reviews via Google.

[edenfalling]

Interesting. I will read up about the movie and then look at your story once I have a frame of reference for it. :-)