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heaven help me
29 Aug 2010 12:43 pmRemember when I said I wasn't going to talk about this fic until it was finished?
OH THE NAIVETY.
It's good I have a handful of people to email about it, because I want to talk about it all the time, it's taken over my head that much. I want to talk about how I feel like I'm remixing a story that aleady exists, because so many of the important things occur offscreen, as it were, between two people who are not the narrator. I'm writing a story that has to have the shape of a romance, from the point of view of someone who honest-to-God thinks it's a different sort of story. Allowing for his compartmentalisation AND trying to keep an eye on the bigger picture is exhausting.
Fandom is not going to have a clue what to do with this story. There's no porn and no action-hero plot, just -- ideas, and people.
And 15,000 words might have been a conservative estimate.
OH THE NAIVETY.
It's good I have a handful of people to email about it, because I want to talk about it all the time, it's taken over my head that much. I want to talk about how I feel like I'm remixing a story that aleady exists, because so many of the important things occur offscreen, as it were, between two people who are not the narrator. I'm writing a story that has to have the shape of a romance, from the point of view of someone who honest-to-God thinks it's a different sort of story. Allowing for his compartmentalisation AND trying to keep an eye on the bigger picture is exhausting.
Fandom is not going to have a clue what to do with this story. There's no porn and no action-hero plot, just -- ideas, and people.
And 15,000 words might have been a conservative estimate.
