all right then

[fahye]

I have finally identified the two major obstacles standing between me and the Merlin fic I'm currently trying to write:

1) It needs -- not a PLOT, per se, I know the basic outline, but plot details. Technicalities and twists. And it's not the kind of story where the plot can flow organically if you know the characters back-to-front, even though that will be useful. Bringing us to the fact that:

2) It's essentially an ensemble piece, even though I'm only using one POV character, and I don't know this fic's versions of the characters well enough yet. And even though I think character-simming is going to be the best way to fix this, I don't need them to just talk to me, I really need them to talk to each other, and that means simming five-sometimes-six people at once. Which, you know, I only sim VERY OCCASIONALLY as it is, and this is going to take up a lot of brainspace.

But I think it'll be worth it, if I can get everything to work.

Yeah, I'm being deliberately vague; I harbour fond hope of keeping this one a surprise, so Claira & Inept are my Secret-Keepers and the rest of you will just have to put up with a lot of ambiguously worded hair-pulling.

~

Entirely unrelated to the above, does anyone know what the hiphoppy song that samples Dragostea Din Tei currently floating around the radiowaves is? And, um, where I could acquire a copy?

Problem solved!

Comments

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

Oh, god. I know exactly what song you're talking about, but all I can tell you is that I'm pretty sure it's by Rihanna. Let me know if you figure it out?

[fahye.livejournal.com]

It came on the bus radio when I was in Europe and I seriously thought I was having weird auditory hallucinations.

[platypusnoises.livejournal.com]

very exciting! i love ensemble pieces and if you're doing crazy things like character-simming for it, it'll be good.

as for the song, it is Live Your Life by T.I. and Rihanna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Your_Life) and i'll be back in a flash with a link...

[platypusnoises.livejournal.com]

and here we are. right click and save as! (http://www.cliuless.com/TI%20%20ft%20Rihanna%20-%20Live%20Your%20Life.mp3)

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Awesome, thanks so much!

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

IT'S 3 in the morning, are you AWAKE?

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Wow, I've never seen that post before but it's very interesting ...

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? As a method it's a little too involved for me on a general basis (because my fics aren't usually long enough to need it), though handy in the short term for developing original RP characters, I find. And alarmingly enough I find myself idly simming Lucifer kind of often.

I think it's something I'll definitely use if/when I start trying to write long original fiction.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I went to bed at 2! Which is at least an improvement on the night before, when I didn't sleep until 5:30.

[ryokophoenix.livejournal.com]

LOL

I guess I should be doing research or...er, something.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Or you could be sorting photos! That'd help too.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

I can't be your secret-keeper, I don't think you told me the secret! You told me about the crazy crossover...