Yuletide progress report
Dec. 4th, 2013 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingI'm still doing research. So much research. All the research -- you have no idea. I did not get up to Cornell today, though I spent a pleasant 45 minutes in the local used book store flipping through indexes and wondering why the two really useful "general background what-life-was-like" books were both centered on the previous century to the one I'm interested in, argh. I may go buy one of them tomorrow anyway, on the theory that everyday life hadn't changed that much over the intervening 50-ish years, and customs and expectations of what counts as "normal" and "correct" are often set by the previous generation's experiences. I will try to get to bed at a more reasonable hour on Thursday so I can make this Cornell library visit happen on Friday. I just want to be historically accurate, all right?!
However! I've also started writing Yuletide fic, on the theory that inaccurate stuff can be fixed later, and it is always faster and easier to edit writing that already exists than it is to produce said writing in the first place, so I had better string some words together before last-minute crunch time.
Current status: 200 words, general intro to situation, no plot whatsoever. I should have a plot. It's not easy to keep a plotless vignette going for a thousand words. I'm not asking for much, just... something needs to happen.
I think this means I need at least one other character (current character count: 2) and also perhaps an outline. Yes. That sounds like a good idea.
Right.
Please excuse me, I have to go mumble fragmentary nonsense to myself while I think of some kind of "and then, and then, and then" structure upon which to hang Character Study and Thoughts About Family.
However! I've also started writing Yuletide fic, on the theory that inaccurate stuff can be fixed later, and it is always faster and easier to edit writing that already exists than it is to produce said writing in the first place, so I had better string some words together before last-minute crunch time.
Current status: 200 words, general intro to situation, no plot whatsoever. I should have a plot. It's not easy to keep a plotless vignette going for a thousand words. I'm not asking for much, just... something needs to happen.
I think this means I need at least one other character (current character count: 2) and also perhaps an outline. Yes. That sounds like a good idea.
Right.
Please excuse me, I have to go mumble fragmentary nonsense to myself while I think of some kind of "and then, and then, and then" structure upon which to hang Character Study and Thoughts About Family.
