Writing Thoughts
Nov. 10th, 2009 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielWhat to do when a fic isn't working?
Steal from your other works-in-progress and tape it all together.
Of course, I don't know what I'll do about the other works-in-progress now...
Except one of them probably wasn't going to be finished anyway with the way it was heading and I'd completely forgotten about the other until I started in the same idea in a new Word document. So I think it's okay. Other lines and bits can be salvaged from both as I see fit. (And they will be. Some of the dialog was pretty good.)
Fic is funny. Before when I was working Castiel POV, I was freaked out and longed for a fic where I could shorten Castiel to Cas and not have to explain away slang or decide whether or not Castiel would know what a spit-take was. But now I'm writing Dean and longing for Castiel POV.
Meanwhile, I've got another NCIS fic I want to poke at. Tony discovers something on the internet. It makes him jumpy around McGee. Essentially. I'm not saying more. But if I can work it right, I think it could be fun. I just don't know where to go from the already written beginning.
Strangely enough, within all that...I'm a little bored. It's weird. I've got plenty to do - and today it's all things I want to do - you'd think I wouldn't be.
Steal from your other works-in-progress and tape it all together.
Of course, I don't know what I'll do about the other works-in-progress now...
Except one of them probably wasn't going to be finished anyway with the way it was heading and I'd completely forgotten about the other until I started in the same idea in a new Word document. So I think it's okay. Other lines and bits can be salvaged from both as I see fit. (And they will be. Some of the dialog was pretty good.)
Fic is funny. Before when I was working Castiel POV, I was freaked out and longed for a fic where I could shorten Castiel to Cas and not have to explain away slang or decide whether or not Castiel would know what a spit-take was. But now I'm writing Dean and longing for Castiel POV.
Meanwhile, I've got another NCIS fic I want to poke at. Tony discovers something on the internet. It makes him jumpy around McGee. Essentially. I'm not saying more. But if I can work it right, I think it could be fun. I just don't know where to go from the already written beginning.
Strangely enough, within all that...I'm a little bored. It's weird. I've got plenty to do - and today it's all things I want to do - you'd think I wouldn't be.
