The joys of fic writing
Dec. 2nd, 2002 02:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenHaving an interesting time of it with the latest Epiphany story. This is the one I talked about earlier, where various parts of it made my fic-o-meter sit up and dance, while others made it go "Meh".
It's up to 30 pages now and the main points still make the fic-o-meter dance, but the transitions aren't. I suspect I need to step back and reevaluate some things. Case in point, one scene had me forcing every word out until I realized like a Devon that I needed to be in Angel's POV, not Wes's.
But the other stuff is a matter of a few things. I'm fairly confident about all the POV choices from here on out, but I think that, as is my usual, I'm having trouble sticking the dismount with a long story. It was easy with Returning when I was knocking dialogue back and forth with no awareness of page count. But when I'm writing on my own I start to get tense around 20 pages or so and worry that I'm belabouring my point, regardless of whether or not I am.
This is definitely a fic that needs to be long. But my instincts fight long stories, for some reason, so here I am with the struggle.
The other problem is that I know where this is going and I'm eager to get there, so part of me wants to just say "Yeah - Wes does this, Angel does that, this other thing happens, trust me it's very angstful and moving, now let's move on."
Add in the fact that I'm so busy and need to write when I can and this results in scenes that are, IMO, rushed and lacking in some details.
But still - progress. The 30 pages now are about 15 that are more or less fine as-is and 15 which are not so much finished scenes as a narrative outline of where everybody needs to go. Now I just have to flesh out how they get there.
Hopefully all this blood, sweat and tears will be worth it when it's done. ;)
It's up to 30 pages now and the main points still make the fic-o-meter dance, but the transitions aren't. I suspect I need to step back and reevaluate some things. Case in point, one scene had me forcing every word out until I realized like a Devon that I needed to be in Angel's POV, not Wes's.
But the other stuff is a matter of a few things. I'm fairly confident about all the POV choices from here on out, but I think that, as is my usual, I'm having trouble sticking the dismount with a long story. It was easy with Returning when I was knocking dialogue back and forth with no awareness of page count. But when I'm writing on my own I start to get tense around 20 pages or so and worry that I'm belabouring my point, regardless of whether or not I am.
This is definitely a fic that needs to be long. But my instincts fight long stories, for some reason, so here I am with the struggle.
The other problem is that I know where this is going and I'm eager to get there, so part of me wants to just say "Yeah - Wes does this, Angel does that, this other thing happens, trust me it's very angstful and moving, now let's move on."
Add in the fact that I'm so busy and need to write when I can and this results in scenes that are, IMO, rushed and lacking in some details.
But still - progress. The 30 pages now are about 15 that are more or less fine as-is and 15 which are not so much finished scenes as a narrative outline of where everybody needs to go. Now I just have to flesh out how they get there.
Hopefully all this blood, sweat and tears will be worth it when it's done. ;)
