wherein Liz talks about writing

[edenfalling]

I've been poking at my last two mini-ficlet meme prompts to no particular avail this past week. Some of that is simply that I have not been in a very good mental place for creation, but aside from real life issues, branchandroot's prompt is being a massive pain -- by which I mean one idea stalled out around 1,200 words, and the second idea is making a fair bid to be equally stroppy -- and rthstewart's requires me to world-build ahead of myself in two separate unfinished fics -- by which I mean "The Courting Dance" and "A Change of Season," of course -- and that is always tricky.

(Sorry, rth, the Star Wars genderswap just isn't happening. It would require either a novel to properly explore the changes, or for me to have watched the films MUCH more recently than I have in order to accurately and dramatically spin a single scene.)

But I wanted to say that I am still working on them, and will hopefully be done by Thanksgiving. *crosses fingers*

And now to bed, since I'm teaching RE in the morning and need my beauty sleep. :-)

Comments

[heliopausa]

Hey, great news, for more of "The Courting Dance"!

[branchandroot]

*pets you* If it works out, great, and if not, well at least you gave your fic-brain a little shake up.

[edenfalling]

More like, stuff that happens about a year after "The Courting Dance," but yeah, same story-universe. Which is not surprising, since 90% of my Narnia fic exists in the same story-universe, but "The Courting Dance" and the Season sequence are the fics most directly relevant to rth's prompt. :-)

(Spoiler: Cor and Aravis are still married, and Cor is still Lune's heir. But that's canon, so it's not really much of a spoiler. *wry*)

[edenfalling]

I know exactly what stalled out the first attempt, and cunningly avoided that problem in the second. And tonight I think I've figured out what was stalling the second attempt and have a fiendish plan to fix that problem too. *rubs hands, laughs evilly*

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

No apologies! ! This is supposed to be fun! Anything you gift us with is fabulous, or nothing at all!!

[edenfalling]

It is fun! Just also extremely frustrating -- writing is so often both at once. *sigh* But it's good because your prompt is making me stare very suspiciously at the Narnian side of my story-universe and ask some hard questions about just when exactly Rishti Tisroc dies, and also how old Aravis and Cor are during "The Courting Dance," which I had been kind of blithely evading for too long. I need to make an actual coherent timeline, and this is a good kick in the pants to make me buckle down and get that done. :-)