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Aug. 11th, 2016 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI started trying to write a fic summary for Iddy Iddy Bang Bang and kind of ended up with paragraphs of stream of consciousness babbling about the story. It would be pretty easy to keep babbling, too, but I really don’t think that it’s useful for the purposes of potential mixers and artists to decide whether or not the story’s of interest to them. Odd how the babbling starts when I’m very, very tired… I just can’t write fiction then.
I should figure out a title for the dratted thing and work out more of the backstory. This is an AU of the story I posted a few days back (which was, itself, a canon divergent AU) that goes in a far darker direction than that did. I’m not digging into the differences at this point because I don’t want to go back over the ground I covered in that other story and because what I’m interested in comes a good bit later in the timeline.
I have a definite idea of where things are right at the point when I started writing, but I’m not sure how they got there, not in an in character way that makes any sense to me. This is supposed to be the purest id fic, so the challenge doesn’t require that I make it all make sense, but I want it to. I feel like I’m the scientist in that old cartoon with the detailed equations all over the board that are only connected by "And then a miracle occurs."
I’ve also got two threads that don’t actually connect well— One thread of non-con smut and one thread of character development/introspection heading into plot. The characterization in the two threads isn’t consistent, and I need it to be if I’m going to mash the two bits together. I’m having particular trouble with two characters. One of them does whatever I need for the plot to happen and needs actual sensible reasons for those actions instead of… whatever I’ve got now. The other is (and shouldn’t be!) a cipher.
Maybe I need to write a little from each of those characters’ points of view?
I think the character development thread is more likely to be interesting in the long run, but I’ve stopped dead because I really, really don’t know what comes next. The smutty bit… Well I could run that on and on forever, but I think it gets kind of tedious because it doesn’t go anywhere at all.
And I still have to figure out what I want to do with pronouns for Merlin, Mandor, and Ghostwheel. Ghostwheel in particular— Why on earth should Ghostwheel be male? I’m writing Merlin’s point of view, and there’s some justification for Merlin to continue to interact with everyone as if Merlin is a human male. The character’s been passing for many, many decades. But maybe some shapeshifters have gender identity? Maybe Ghostwheel does actually identify male?
I should figure out a title for the dratted thing and work out more of the backstory. This is an AU of the story I posted a few days back (which was, itself, a canon divergent AU) that goes in a far darker direction than that did. I’m not digging into the differences at this point because I don’t want to go back over the ground I covered in that other story and because what I’m interested in comes a good bit later in the timeline.
I have a definite idea of where things are right at the point when I started writing, but I’m not sure how they got there, not in an in character way that makes any sense to me. This is supposed to be the purest id fic, so the challenge doesn’t require that I make it all make sense, but I want it to. I feel like I’m the scientist in that old cartoon with the detailed equations all over the board that are only connected by "And then a miracle occurs."
I’ve also got two threads that don’t actually connect well— One thread of non-con smut and one thread of character development/introspection heading into plot. The characterization in the two threads isn’t consistent, and I need it to be if I’m going to mash the two bits together. I’m having particular trouble with two characters. One of them does whatever I need for the plot to happen and needs actual sensible reasons for those actions instead of… whatever I’ve got now. The other is (and shouldn’t be!) a cipher.
Maybe I need to write a little from each of those characters’ points of view?
I think the character development thread is more likely to be interesting in the long run, but I’ve stopped dead because I really, really don’t know what comes next. The smutty bit… Well I could run that on and on forever, but I think it gets kind of tedious because it doesn’t go anywhere at all.
And I still have to figure out what I want to do with pronouns for Merlin, Mandor, and Ghostwheel. Ghostwheel in particular— Why on earth should Ghostwheel be male? I’m writing Merlin’s point of view, and there’s some justification for Merlin to continue to interact with everyone as if Merlin is a human male. The character’s been passing for many, many decades. But maybe some shapeshifters have gender identity? Maybe Ghostwheel does actually identify male?
