Writing's a bitch.
Apr. 25th, 2006 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
platedlizardReally.
I've been working on a Witch Hunter Robin fanfiction for the last...um, year and a half and I'm coming to really regret it. Mostly because there's so many cool things I want to do, and I'm not sure how to get there. I think I wrote myself into a corner with one plot element, and if I had the guts I would go back and haul it out totally. But I feel if I did that I would, I don't know, betray my readers who liked that bit. I don't know what to do.
Any ways, I think I've found a way to write myself out of that corner, at least for now. I think, in the end, I might still rewrite this, but only after finishing the goddamned thing. It's really bad for my self-discipline to leave a story half-finished like that, I think. Right now I'm working on 'fix' for that plot element so I can go elsewhere with this. I've given up, for the time being, on writing my very first rough draft on Word, I've gone back to my journal instead. Much more portable, if I get an idea at work I can jot it down on a break. Also, there's something about writing it out by hand that makes the ideas and prose flow. I write with an ultra fine point Sharpie pen (I am a total Sharpie whore) so that I can't go back and correct things. It's a good way to turn off my internal editor, although it means that spelling and grammar out right out the window. If I don't like a scene at all I write another, or save it so that I can work out the problems later on Word.
My fix involves Doujima totally guilt-triping Juliano ("Nagira believed in Robin whenyouwe didn't. You have to help him, you owe it to Robin!" More or less) and I kinda like that scene. The way I originally wrote it doesn't quite ring true with either character, but I'll fix that on the rewrite. Unfortunately when I originally wrote that plot point I had forgotten that Michael mentions Nagira during the epilogue, which only happened a couple weeks (maybe at most a couple months) after the Incident at the Factory, which means that Nagira is ok by then. So I have to wrap it up fairly quickly in my chronology, or else I'm breaking canon. I'm sure I'm the only one who cares, but still.
I've got some OC's I'm really excited about. They're an interesting mix of characters. One's a Hunter, in his mid-30's named Norman. He has a psycho raven as a familar that is based on a couple psycho ravens I've known. His girlfriend has my dream job (works for the Peregrine Fund, the lucky bitch), but she isn't on scene very much as she's out in the field. Another character is, of course, Mrs. Smith. She's Japanese-American. She went to college in the US and met her future husband there. She a normal human, but she likes to poke her nose in her students business. Normally this is a good thing, she's caught wind of Bad Things that way, but in Robin's case she's a total pain in the ass. (Think about it, a 15 year old girl living with a 25 year old man who is not her brother. Raises all kinds of red flags, doesn't it? We know different, but the neighbor down the street won't) There's a couple of students I rather like. Julia, who is one of those girls who is a total bitch and never makes friends. Comes from a broken house (mom does drugs and drinks), and is about to Awaken in a nasty manner. Robin wants to help her, of course. Saul, who is a refuge from southern Sudan. I think I've mentioned him before.
I might even include a serial-killer, too. I've already got several scenes written out with him, but I'm not sure I want to add him to the story. Maybe later.
Anyways, I felt like writing about my story, and thank you all for reading my ramblings. I don't talk about my stuff IRL, mostly because I don't know anyone else IRL who writes fanfiction, and I'm not real connected with the local writer's community for my other stuff. Maybe someday I will be. I dunno.
I've been working on a Witch Hunter Robin fanfiction for the last...um, year and a half and I'm coming to really regret it. Mostly because there's so many cool things I want to do, and I'm not sure how to get there. I think I wrote myself into a corner with one plot element, and if I had the guts I would go back and haul it out totally. But I feel if I did that I would, I don't know, betray my readers who liked that bit. I don't know what to do.
Any ways, I think I've found a way to write myself out of that corner, at least for now. I think, in the end, I might still rewrite this, but only after finishing the goddamned thing. It's really bad for my self-discipline to leave a story half-finished like that, I think. Right now I'm working on 'fix' for that plot element so I can go elsewhere with this. I've given up, for the time being, on writing my very first rough draft on Word, I've gone back to my journal instead. Much more portable, if I get an idea at work I can jot it down on a break. Also, there's something about writing it out by hand that makes the ideas and prose flow. I write with an ultra fine point Sharpie pen (I am a total Sharpie whore) so that I can't go back and correct things. It's a good way to turn off my internal editor, although it means that spelling and grammar out right out the window. If I don't like a scene at all I write another, or save it so that I can work out the problems later on Word.
My fix involves Doujima totally guilt-triping Juliano ("Nagira believed in Robin when
I've got some OC's I'm really excited about. They're an interesting mix of characters. One's a Hunter, in his mid-30's named Norman. He has a psycho raven as a familar that is based on a couple psycho ravens I've known. His girlfriend has my dream job (works for the Peregrine Fund, the lucky bitch), but she isn't on scene very much as she's out in the field. Another character is, of course, Mrs. Smith. She's Japanese-American. She went to college in the US and met her future husband there. She a normal human, but she likes to poke her nose in her students business. Normally this is a good thing, she's caught wind of Bad Things that way, but in Robin's case she's a total pain in the ass. (Think about it, a 15 year old girl living with a 25 year old man who is not her brother. Raises all kinds of red flags, doesn't it? We know different, but the neighbor down the street won't) There's a couple of students I rather like. Julia, who is one of those girls who is a total bitch and never makes friends. Comes from a broken house (mom does drugs and drinks), and is about to Awaken in a nasty manner. Robin wants to help her, of course. Saul, who is a refuge from southern Sudan. I think I've mentioned him before.
I might even include a serial-killer, too. I've already got several scenes written out with him, but I'm not sure I want to add him to the story. Maybe later.
Anyways, I felt like writing about my story, and thank you all for reading my ramblings. I don't talk about my stuff IRL, mostly because I don't know anyone else IRL who writes fanfiction, and I'm not real connected with the local writer's community for my other stuff. Maybe someday I will be. I dunno.