am i the only one who does this?
Apr. 19th, 2010 12:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
so... i've written roughly another 2000 words on Seventh Gift, and keep having little scenarios and scenes pop into my head as i wonder just how long it's going to be. (it would be rather ironic if it turns out to be 30,000 words on the dot, and if that happens, i'm going to be seriously tempted to do some editing on my tenses to make the sections reflect the section headings....) but Green Day, which just needs one last bit of editing done before i re-post it in it's final version, appears to be temporarily stalled. i know this is because farad asked me what Vin was feeling in Dr. Will's office, and said that i needed to show that better. i don't disagree, but ACK! feelings! i'll trade you several emo tears if you just let me write about number line theory, really!
and even that reaction is strange, because i attempt to write each story in a style that will evoke a particular emotion in the readers, and if the feedback i'm getting is any indication, i'm doing fairly well at that. not that i don't have a lot to learn, but that for where i'm at writing-wise, i'm managing to evoke the reactions i want fairly consistently.
but yeah. i really, really want to finish Green Day, because i'm *so close*, and don't feel like i can do the christmas story in my werewolf AU or the meta inspired by farad's editing commentary on Green Day, even though i don't *have* to wait, in a technical sense. it's just, i have this little list, and i totally can't move on to those smaller pieces until i finish the 'big piece' of Green Day, and it's kind of driving me batty. and it's driving me batty that i'm pulling a blank on something i really should be able to add to Green Day quite easily.
does anyone else's writing habits occasionally drive them around the bend? why or why not?
-bs
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Date: 2010-04-19 09:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-04-19 09:09 pm (UTC)2) No offence to Fara because I'm sure she's a wonderful beta (or offered concrit as a reader which is also valuable!) but have you considered using more than one beta on each piece? I think betas are incredibly undervalued and worth their weight in gold but I'm of the school that says to have more than one editor, always. Because an editorial opinion that goes beyond the Strunk & White can be just as subjective as any reader and sometimes (well-intended but) cross-purposeful to authorial intent. If you know what I mean?
3) Around the bend, you say? I think the clinical term is bugnut crazy. :) I just rewrote a scene NINE times in the past month trying to find the flow and flavour. Only to suss I was doing it wrong. I kept thinking the storyline was crap and I was trying too hard and it was never going to come together. Middle of the night eureka after chatting with a friend about her 300K story made me go back into my story and start pulling modifiers and looking closely at word choices. And throwing out the goddamned thesaurus. I'm not a thesaurus girl, I prefer a story to grow organically from the language of the universe but I've been so lazy and forgot all that. A day later and everything fell into place easily. *facepalm* It's always hard on the ego to find out that the problem isn't the story, it's the AUTHOR. :D
4) OMG, this reminds me I found that shrunken!Chris fic I told you about. I'll PM it or post it or something.
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