There's a corner, and a piece of sky...
Jun. 9th, 2007 12:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastesWords yesterday: 1500. Words today: 800. W00T!
This post is thoughtful, and I disagree with a hell of a lot of it. I don't deny her right to say it, but gah. Sanctimonious. much. I hope I've replied to her politely but I'm pretty miffed that she thinks she can remind us to be responsible. I would say that 99.99 of fandom is very much so. As I said in my reply fandom is self regulating, they disclaim, they cut, they flock, they do a lot of things that THEY DON'T NEED TO DO to protect people who might not like or should not read their fics. And fandom is vocal too, if they see an unflocked post, or a post without warnings they will point this lack out - sometimes its a newbie and they just don't know.
Anyway, about the latest work: I've kinda of discovered that a way I've been working has become mega annoying. It's like making a jigsaw. I seem unable to write in sequence at the moment.
Ever since I started writing I always skipped forward to write the stand out scenes, the ones that had given me the impetus to write the story in the first place. In Standish as you know I wrote the last scene very early on, and it was the same in Transgressions and there's a very unpleasant scene in Transgressions which I wrote and stood alone for a very long time until I worked out how we got there, and how we got away from there. But this novella - aiming for about 20K - was causing me problems, partly because, as I've said before, my protag can't say 10 words when 100 will do and just progressing one chapter at a time was really annoying me. So I skipped forward and wrote a scene that will be "somewhere in the middle" then the last chapter, then the penultimate chapter....
So now all I have to do is fill in the gaps! But it's worked. I now know where I'm going and how I'm going to get there. Anyone use this tactic??
In other news - Lucius is addicted to Springwatch. He particularly loves the Hen Harriers and Lili is sitting listening to Y Tu Mama Tambien right this moment. She's Spanish, my sister imported her to England about six years ago and I never really considered it, and now she's listening to the Spanish with such attentiveness that I feel dreadfully guilty. No wonder the poor darling couldn't work me out for about six months, I should have learned Spanish to talk to her. *guilt guilt guilt*
This post is thoughtful, and I disagree with a hell of a lot of it. I don't deny her right to say it, but gah. Sanctimonious. much. I hope I've replied to her politely but I'm pretty miffed that she thinks she can remind us to be responsible. I would say that 99.99 of fandom is very much so. As I said in my reply fandom is self regulating, they disclaim, they cut, they flock, they do a lot of things that THEY DON'T NEED TO DO to protect people who might not like or should not read their fics. And fandom is vocal too, if they see an unflocked post, or a post without warnings they will point this lack out - sometimes its a newbie and they just don't know.
Anyway, about the latest work: I've kinda of discovered that a way I've been working has become mega annoying. It's like making a jigsaw. I seem unable to write in sequence at the moment.
Ever since I started writing I always skipped forward to write the stand out scenes, the ones that had given me the impetus to write the story in the first place. In Standish as you know I wrote the last scene very early on, and it was the same in Transgressions and there's a very unpleasant scene in Transgressions which I wrote and stood alone for a very long time until I worked out how we got there, and how we got away from there. But this novella - aiming for about 20K - was causing me problems, partly because, as I've said before, my protag can't say 10 words when 100 will do and just progressing one chapter at a time was really annoying me. So I skipped forward and wrote a scene that will be "somewhere in the middle" then the last chapter, then the penultimate chapter....
So now all I have to do is fill in the gaps! But it's worked. I now know where I'm going and how I'm going to get there. Anyone use this tactic??
In other news - Lucius is addicted to Springwatch. He particularly loves the Hen Harriers and Lili is sitting listening to Y Tu Mama Tambien right this moment. She's Spanish, my sister imported her to England about six years ago and I never really considered it, and now she's listening to the Spanish with such attentiveness that I feel dreadfully guilty. No wonder the poor darling couldn't work me out for about six months, I should have learned Spanish to talk to her. *guilt guilt guilt*
