Folks don't like dialect
One of the reasons that writing Maintain The Right is going to take so long is that I can't find a true balance.
I know how this story starts, moves through the middle and ends.
Here are a few problems though:
1) I don't have a climax. Not an appropriately dramatic one, anyway. I'm considering having the graduation itself be the climax, and then an epilogue.
2) Actually, that epilogue is already plotted out as a scene of its own.
3) I've got an intense desire to use other POVs in this fic. I'm managing to hide most of them as sidestories, but it's getting harder.
4) The title of this entry: Folks don't like dialect. But unfortunately, the dialect is a part of this story. Ray often doesn't speak with the greatest of clarity in canon, and he's already changing this in the fic. But I've said too much.
5) The sheer amount of research involved. Yes, I have access to books that most wouldn't have without visiting the nearest university library - and mine are all highly specific to Police Training. I also have my own notes and commentaries. But there's still extra, RCMP-specific resources that I need to go through, and I need to constantly remind myself that the procedures used by the Ottawa Police are not necessarily going to be the same as those used by the RCMP. In fact, I know some of them are different. Wish the blog-thing were still up, but I can't get a copy of it anywhere. -sigh-
6) I need to get hold of season three. Yep, that's actually a big one.
7) I'm about to pull a major coup on Ray's citizenship, and I honestly have no idea as to how people are going to react to it.
...
gotta do it though!
I know how this story starts, moves through the middle and ends.
Here are a few problems though:
1) I don't have a climax. Not an appropriately dramatic one, anyway. I'm considering having the graduation itself be the climax, and then an epilogue.
2) Actually, that epilogue is already plotted out as a scene of its own.
3) I've got an intense desire to use other POVs in this fic. I'm managing to hide most of them as sidestories, but it's getting harder.
4) The title of this entry: Folks don't like dialect. But unfortunately, the dialect is a part of this story. Ray often doesn't speak with the greatest of clarity in canon, and he's already changing this in the fic. But I've said too much.
5) The sheer amount of research involved. Yes, I have access to books that most wouldn't have without visiting the nearest university library - and mine are all highly specific to Police Training. I also have my own notes and commentaries. But there's still extra, RCMP-specific resources that I need to go through, and I need to constantly remind myself that the procedures used by the Ottawa Police are not necessarily going to be the same as those used by the RCMP. In fact, I know some of them are different. Wish the blog-thing were still up, but I can't get a copy of it anywhere. -sigh-
6) I need to get hold of season three. Yep, that's actually a big one.
7) I'm about to pull a major coup on Ray's citizenship, and I honestly have no idea as to how people are going to react to it.
...
gotta do it though!