A quiet (and cold) Sunday
Dec. 5th, 2010 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sophiapUnless my craving for some gyoza becomes intolerable, I am not leaving the house today. It's too damned cold out there. It's only a little below freezing, but something about the humidity level makes it a particularly penetrating cold. The gym is off the list today, because I'm letting a tetchy shoulder recover fully before doing anything that might re-aggravate it.
So, it's an inside day. If motivated, I may try to figure out how to re-light the pilot light for my fireplace. I also want to write two entries for that TV show meme from last week, and work on a couple of other fanfic projects. I do have some knitting to do, but that seems to be aggravating my shoulder, so I'll let it alone for now.
WIPs and the thoughts they have spurred on fic in general
I Shall Roam the Summer Fields (Bleach):
This is going great guns, and I've figured out a few problematic issues regarding timing. A lot of personal stuff has been sneaking into this piece, which may be why it's going as strong as it is. For the first time, I feel like I've got something that truly is a valid trial run for some original stuff I want to work on.
What's odd, though, is that I find myself balking at becoming more than subtexty about two possible slash pairings for one of the main characters (one would have been casual-ish fooling around/experimentation with a friend, the other would be an established or potential long-term relationship). The pairings are definitely head-canon for this particular story, but I'm having issues gracefully pulling it out of subtext without derailing the story. I really hope it's not a subconscious case of me wanting to avoid wank in a notoriously pairing-wanky fandom. Then again, neither pairing is strictly relevant to the story, unlike a couple of others that worked their way in there.
For example, I found myself setting up a het pairing that I normally do not like at all. For some reason, though, it works for this story. It plays into some necessary character development for both characters, and will drive some decisions that are not directly related to the relationship. Also, I find that I'm putting some serious strain into one of my very few OTPs--again, because that's where I see the events of the story leading. And with that, I'm going to go put a note in my growing meta regarding pairings and move on.
Winter War (Bleach, co-write):
I'm starting to play with my next section of this, and it's been interesting changing gears on characterization between this and Summer Fields (and I only just now noticed how the names are set up as opposites--argh!) I think that's one of the fascinating things about fanfic: there are so many ways to write the same characters, depending on what extra-canonical backstory you assume for them, what effect the fic's events will take on them, how you interpret their canon behavior, etc. There's probably a basis for a "five things" type meme in that. I'll have to ponder the idea.
I have learned a lot from working with Liralen and Incandescens on this. One thing I think has really improved is my ability to write action scenes.
The Sun Circles the Earth (Sherlock gen fic)
Still very much in the planning/outlining stage, and probably will be until Summer Fields lets go of my collar. As I ranted about a while back, I find I don't like slash fic for this particular fandom. It's not so much that I see Sherlock as asexual (I see him as being not far removed, though, and as so being actively turned off by intellectual dullness that he's got a very small pool of potential partners) as that I thing there's more interest and possible psychological upheaval in him having an actual friend than in having a lover. That's where the meat of the fic came from, once a kink meme prompt started me on the main plot device. It also got me thinking about what happens when a friendship turns sour as opposed to a romance turning sour.
Figuring out a good war background for John has been the real fun in this. I've got that mostly nailed down barring a few details, and I know exactly how it will play into the case. The other fun (and I blameaishuu for this) has been figuring out why there's such venom between Sherlock and Sally.
Big challenge here? Point of view. The story wants to be told from Lestrade's point of view, but I'm not sure that will be possible for 100% of the thing, including one big backstory piece. At the same time, I'm balking at using more than one POV, since this story needs to be tight, tight, tight. That, as much as being eaten alive by another WIP, has been holding up the writing on this. Oddly enough, one of the biggest challenges in Summer Fields has been determining POV for each section (which may also explain why I can't un-subtext a couple of pairings).
Radio Nowhere (Supernatural/Other)
While my original plot was completely jossed this weekend, I think I can salvage some of the ideas I'd been playing with. I had been hoping to write this as a Hannukah pressie for someone who wanted some Bobby-Rufus snark, but it will be late. This, like "Fightin' Words," is one of those stories that grows out of a mish-mosh of ideas for interesting moments, bits of dialogue, images, etc., that get shuffled around until I find a plot that fits. I also decided that this is actually going to be something of a crossover.
Apocrypha (Supernatural):
The Big Bang that wasn't. The last scene of this is so strong in my mind, I feel like I have to write the rest of the story just to get to that one particular moment. I have the story outlined in huge detail, and so far it has not been jossed. I'm really just waiting for the right moment to jump back in. I think part of the issue is that I'm liking but not loving this season of Supernatural, so the urge to write isn't as strong. Odd, but the like-but-not-love factor is having the opposite effect on my two Bleach projects. Maybe it's because both of those are AUs that deviate from canon around the time that the canon story hit an epically long slump.
So, it's an inside day. If motivated, I may try to figure out how to re-light the pilot light for my fireplace. I also want to write two entries for that TV show meme from last week, and work on a couple of other fanfic projects. I do have some knitting to do, but that seems to be aggravating my shoulder, so I'll let it alone for now.
WIPs and the thoughts they have spurred on fic in general
I Shall Roam the Summer Fields (Bleach):
This is going great guns, and I've figured out a few problematic issues regarding timing. A lot of personal stuff has been sneaking into this piece, which may be why it's going as strong as it is. For the first time, I feel like I've got something that truly is a valid trial run for some original stuff I want to work on.
What's odd, though, is that I find myself balking at becoming more than subtexty about two possible slash pairings for one of the main characters (one would have been casual-ish fooling around/experimentation with a friend, the other would be an established or potential long-term relationship). The pairings are definitely head-canon for this particular story, but I'm having issues gracefully pulling it out of subtext without derailing the story. I really hope it's not a subconscious case of me wanting to avoid wank in a notoriously pairing-wanky fandom. Then again, neither pairing is strictly relevant to the story, unlike a couple of others that worked their way in there.
For example, I found myself setting up a het pairing that I normally do not like at all. For some reason, though, it works for this story. It plays into some necessary character development for both characters, and will drive some decisions that are not directly related to the relationship. Also, I find that I'm putting some serious strain into one of my very few OTPs--again, because that's where I see the events of the story leading. And with that, I'm going to go put a note in my growing meta regarding pairings and move on.
Winter War (Bleach, co-write):
I'm starting to play with my next section of this, and it's been interesting changing gears on characterization between this and Summer Fields (and I only just now noticed how the names are set up as opposites--argh!) I think that's one of the fascinating things about fanfic: there are so many ways to write the same characters, depending on what extra-canonical backstory you assume for them, what effect the fic's events will take on them, how you interpret their canon behavior, etc. There's probably a basis for a "five things" type meme in that. I'll have to ponder the idea.
I have learned a lot from working with Liralen and Incandescens on this. One thing I think has really improved is my ability to write action scenes.
The Sun Circles the Earth (Sherlock gen fic)
Still very much in the planning/outlining stage, and probably will be until Summer Fields lets go of my collar. As I ranted about a while back, I find I don't like slash fic for this particular fandom. It's not so much that I see Sherlock as asexual (I see him as being not far removed, though, and as so being actively turned off by intellectual dullness that he's got a very small pool of potential partners) as that I thing there's more interest and possible psychological upheaval in him having an actual friend than in having a lover. That's where the meat of the fic came from, once a kink meme prompt started me on the main plot device. It also got me thinking about what happens when a friendship turns sour as opposed to a romance turning sour.
Figuring out a good war background for John has been the real fun in this. I've got that mostly nailed down barring a few details, and I know exactly how it will play into the case. The other fun (and I blame
aishuu for this) has been figuring out why there's such venom between Sherlock and Sally.Big challenge here? Point of view. The story wants to be told from Lestrade's point of view, but I'm not sure that will be possible for 100% of the thing, including one big backstory piece. At the same time, I'm balking at using more than one POV, since this story needs to be tight, tight, tight. That, as much as being eaten alive by another WIP, has been holding up the writing on this. Oddly enough, one of the biggest challenges in Summer Fields has been determining POV for each section (which may also explain why I can't un-subtext a couple of pairings).
Radio Nowhere (Supernatural/Other)
While my original plot was completely jossed this weekend, I think I can salvage some of the ideas I'd been playing with. I had been hoping to write this as a Hannukah pressie for someone who wanted some Bobby-Rufus snark, but it will be late. This, like "Fightin' Words," is one of those stories that grows out of a mish-mosh of ideas for interesting moments, bits of dialogue, images, etc., that get shuffled around until I find a plot that fits. I also decided that this is actually going to be something of a crossover.
Apocrypha (Supernatural):
The Big Bang that wasn't. The last scene of this is so strong in my mind, I feel like I have to write the rest of the story just to get to that one particular moment. I have the story outlined in huge detail, and so far it has not been jossed. I'm really just waiting for the right moment to jump back in. I think part of the issue is that I'm liking but not loving this season of Supernatural, so the urge to write isn't as strong. Odd, but the like-but-not-love factor is having the opposite effect on my two Bleach projects. Maybe it's because both of those are AUs that deviate from canon around the time that the canon story hit an epically long slump.
