Friday Check-in

[inkdust]

Hi everybody! It's been a while.

I'm putting off continuing my work for the moment because I'm stuck on one part of the last line of this scene & chapter (12, yay, halfway there!) that needs something to make the sentence feel complete. I have a gift for sitting on one piece of one line. So I figured I'd stare at something else for a minute and ask how all you fine people have been.

What's new? What's old that you want to be rid of? What's good, and what feels more like dragging a dead zebra behind a bicycle?


(No zebras were harmed in this mental interlude)

Comments

[splinteredstar]

I've mostly been working on a monster of a fanfiction, the main section of which is little over 22k. (There's a secondary section but I have no idea how to integrate it. Might ask the comm about that in a bit.) It has involved a lot of backwork, brainstorming, and threatening my main character with a brick.

You know how it goes.

Making progress, though. Currently scribbling unrelated things as a form of stress release, just to make sure I don't actually hit anything with a brick.

I have also written entirely too much meta about Bravely Default.

[inkdust]

It's all fun and games until someone gets hit with a brick. I can never decide which is more work, putting the actual words on the page or everything that comes before/intermittently during that. Usually depends on which I'm doing at the time. I'm always happy to bounce ideas around if you get stuck on that secondary section.

(And your worldbuilding message, it weighs on me! I never actually got to reading it because I started editing again and didn't want to distract myself with that story, but the longer it sits there the more the pressure builds! I'm so silly, I need to just open it.)

[splinteredstar]

In the case, the backwork is much worse. It's fanfiction, so I have canon to work from - it's just that the canon is kind of sparse, so I have to essentially construct 3/4 of a character and make sure that it matches up with the 1/4 of the character that I actually have. I've had to do this in varying degrees for four characters so far.

It's been a fascinating lesson in character creation. Will probably come in very handy for my original work, honestly. Thank you for the offer! I have an excellent beta/sounding board/partner-in-crime, but I might take you up on that sometime.

(Don't worry, it won't bite! I mostly just ramble about information infrastructure and cold war era spying. Nothing threatening.)