fic stuff

[terabient]

The good news about my hardmode fic: I'm well over the 10,000 word requirement. Woo!

The bad news: it's nowhere NEAR finished. PROBABLY I shouldn't have planned two major plotlines, each one involving four major characters, with one taking place in a fictional city in a country I've never been in and have had to research extensively just so I don't fall flat on my face and portray it in an embarrassing and offensively stereotypical way.

I made the decision to work on each plotline separately for the most part, which was maybe not the best idea? At this point, I'm almost finished with what I've affectionately dubbed the 'Sausage and Monster Fest' plot, while the plotline that has all the ladies and city-wide gunfights and zombies and quarantines has just a few scattered scenes here and there. So there's a lot of material, but it's completely incoherent as a whole. OH DEAR.

If push comes to shove, I mightmightmight be able to clear out the super-fun, super-not-worked on plotline out and submit the (mostly) finished plot by the deadline. But naturally that would suck for a few reasons. It's not like you can completely remove a major plotline without creating some plot holes and the nagging sense that somewhere, but definitely not in story the reader is reading, a different, totally rockin' story is happening.

Plus, as one may have already deduced, Sausage and Monster Fest plot has a lot of dudes in it. And monsters. And bad puns, but mostly dudes, while Super-Fun plot is full of girls with guns kicking ass and taking names and also delivering some moral platitudes about the largely non-existent issue of biological weapon development. The idea of dropping a female-centric plot for a guys beatin' up baddies story is something I really don't want to do. At the same time, I'd feel bad about signing up for a big bang and not being able to finish the first part of the challenge, namely writing and sending in a fic for beta reading.

I signed up for big bangs this year to see if I could actually produce a whole lot of creative writing by a deadline and to see what working with a beta reader is like. Well, the potential for getting custom-made art and/or a fanmix is nice too. But mostly I was curious about the beta reading aspect because I've never used one and I'm too shy to go about finding one myself. ^^;

Anyway, I don't know what I'll end up doing. My gut feeling is to drop from the challenge and work on the fic on my own time so I'll be able to write about everything I wanted to, and try again next year, but I dunno. Any suggestions, flist?

To wrap things up, here's a writing-ish meme that's been making the rounds for awhile. It's pretty relevant to my situation at the moment, hahahaha

Simply put, make a list of all file names for any WIPs you have on your computer.

anon02
anon03
au
bb_noelxlitchi
firstaid
hardmode
hxhsenses
kinkmeme
l4d01
l4d02
l4d2emo
memefill
memewhores
nefluff
nxe
ot3
prisonink
pr0ns
radioactive
re5_kinkmeme01
re5_kinkmeme02
sc_goalone
sc_sp
sc02
springkink11-5
starsFF13
stockcarsmut
tunnelpills

(from google docs)
endofeternity
live as we dream
She
currency
taste
darkness
drunk
dissection
Crysallis

oh god i never finish anything

If my terribly boring filenames pique your interest, you can ask for a summary or excerpt or whatever you want about them in the comments~

Comments

[jack_of_none]

FFFFFFF I am in the same boat with Hardmode. Hitting the wordcount isn't a problem but FINISHING THE WHOLE THING definitely is.

I think I might cut it short, there's kind of a natural ending place about halfway through my original outline : / I can finish the rest up and post a sequel, I guess. The first arc ended up just being too involved.

[alpineinnuendo.livejournal.com]

Hmm... if you want to have the beta experience now you could try finishing the Sausage and Monster plot, hand that one in for hardmode and work on a revised & extended version of the story including the girl plot on your own time later?

But honestly, idk, so your gut feeling is probably the best idea.

Also I love that meme and I'm going to steal it. And run off looking for that Resident Evil kinkmeme.