During my lunch break I eat food and sometimes attempt fanish things
The most recent lunch break labours were more on the 'attempting' than on the 'succeeding' with regards to fanish things :( And thus, I bring you the 'whine at my muse' post! Cut for your lack-of-viewing pleasure!
PS. Is it "fanish" or "fannish"? The latter looks better to me, but the former would be better in line with other 'fan' constructions.
Dear Muse,
Re: Untitled Ficlet (stupid working title: How Language)
In my head, this scene is cute and cuddly. In my head, it takes about two second. On screen it would take about two second, in words? Goodness I'm bored with writing the scene (and it's not even finished) it's taking so long to describe. And this little scene, really a scenelet, is just supposed to be this cute set-up for the actual point of the story! But I need something to set the stage for the actual *discussion of things which might almost be feelings* and thus, need cute! Pls to be with the making cute fuzziness and not exsessive verbage. I think I might have to cut most of it, but I'm not sure... I like the slow building of information that I've got going on, but if I condense it I'm not sure the emotional state stays cute and fuzzy. Perhaps I'll have to cut this scenelet entirely and do something else? But I like it! So maybe I'll write all of the scenelet and some (all?) of the scene it's building to before I can actually decide what to do.
Sighingily,
Fish Echo
Dear Muse,
Re: The Keller Pie fic (AKA: The One Where Keller Is Having A Bad Day, Rodney Bakes A Pie, And John Has A Conversation Over A Beer)
I would like an outline for this story, please. And a plot. And a sense of where the characters are and what thier motivations are.
I in fact have something like three and a half outlines. I need to pick one or make a new one, I don't care, just decide something! I have a plot, well, techincally, the outline of a plot. But at least once I get an actual outline, the outline should inform the plot. Or perhaps the decided-upon plot will inform the outline, I'm not picky about that part! I'd just like some direction, please.
And I'm sure the motivations and emotional states of the characters will resolve themselves as soon as you pick *which* version of Jennifer and Rodney and John are being used! And yes, I realise you're happy with the version of John that's in my head right now, but he's not comfortable making moves on Rodney, so that's not gonna work very well, now is it? Hmm? Clearly you are failing somewhat on your muse duties because I've got the characters from some other story(ies) wandering through my brain-parsley and they're the wrong characters even if they've got the same name.
And now that I've got the venting out of my way, some actual musing on this fic. I think a part of the reason I'm having trouble with this fic is that I'm somehow looking at it wrong, or sideways, or upside down or something. It's like everything is just a few degrees off of plumb... I know I need to change something but I'm not sure what things need a poke in which direction to make them all line up. It's why I've left this fic on the back burner for so long, I've been hoping that coming at it fresh would help. But instead of working on this fic over lunch I somehow started a new one *facepalm*
Ooooh, wait a tic.... I think my Jennifer might be part of the problem... My Jennifer for this pie (oh my goodness, I have a version of a character associated with a particular recipe. I am clearly nuts.) has a strong element of loneliness/homesickness as well as an inner core of self-reliance, but since what I wrote was so short, there are other aspects of her character that are not fully fleshed out in my head! And as she currently stands, she wouldn't be dating Rodney (and if for some reason we posit that she was dating Rodney then she wouldn't break it off with him for these reasons)! Oh! Oh! Oh! So clearly what I need to do is use the character traits of this Jennifer Keller that are true in my head and modify/add to her character such that dating and then breaking up with Rodney is in line with that! Oooh, yes... I think I can do this! She's not fully formed in my head yet, but I can feel her beginning to form in the back of my brain. I think I shall have to put this fic back on the backburner again and let my subconscious work on it. :)
Many thanks, Muse!
Fish Echo
PS. Is it "fanish" or "fannish"? The latter looks better to me, but the former would be better in line with other 'fan' constructions.
Dear Muse,
Re: Untitled Ficlet (stupid working title: How Language)
In my head, this scene is cute and cuddly. In my head, it takes about two second. On screen it would take about two second, in words? Goodness I'm bored with writing the scene (and it's not even finished) it's taking so long to describe. And this little scene, really a scenelet, is just supposed to be this cute set-up for the actual point of the story! But I need something to set the stage for the actual *discussion of things which might almost be feelings* and thus, need cute! Pls to be with the making cute fuzziness and not exsessive verbage. I think I might have to cut most of it, but I'm not sure... I like the slow building of information that I've got going on, but if I condense it I'm not sure the emotional state stays cute and fuzzy. Perhaps I'll have to cut this scenelet entirely and do something else? But I like it! So maybe I'll write all of the scenelet and some (all?) of the scene it's building to before I can actually decide what to do.
Sighingily,
Fish Echo
Dear Muse,
Re: The Keller Pie fic (AKA: The One Where Keller Is Having A Bad Day, Rodney Bakes A Pie, And John Has A Conversation Over A Beer)
I would like an outline for this story, please. And a plot. And a sense of where the characters are and what thier motivations are.
I in fact have something like three and a half outlines. I need to pick one or make a new one, I don't care, just decide something! I have a plot, well, techincally, the outline of a plot. But at least once I get an actual outline, the outline should inform the plot. Or perhaps the decided-upon plot will inform the outline, I'm not picky about that part! I'd just like some direction, please.
And I'm sure the motivations and emotional states of the characters will resolve themselves as soon as you pick *which* version of Jennifer and Rodney and John are being used! And yes, I realise you're happy with the version of John that's in my head right now, but he's not comfortable making moves on Rodney, so that's not gonna work very well, now is it? Hmm? Clearly you are failing somewhat on your muse duties because I've got the characters from some other story(ies) wandering through my brain-parsley and they're the wrong characters even if they've got the same name.
And now that I've got the venting out of my way, some actual musing on this fic. I think a part of the reason I'm having trouble with this fic is that I'm somehow looking at it wrong, or sideways, or upside down or something. It's like everything is just a few degrees off of plumb... I know I need to change something but I'm not sure what things need a poke in which direction to make them all line up. It's why I've left this fic on the back burner for so long, I've been hoping that coming at it fresh would help. But instead of working on this fic over lunch I somehow started a new one *facepalm*
Ooooh, wait a tic.... I think my Jennifer might be part of the problem... My Jennifer for this pie (oh my goodness, I have a version of a character associated with a particular recipe. I am clearly nuts.) has a strong element of loneliness/homesickness as well as an inner core of self-reliance, but since what I wrote was so short, there are other aspects of her character that are not fully fleshed out in my head! And as she currently stands, she wouldn't be dating Rodney (and if for some reason we posit that she was dating Rodney then she wouldn't break it off with him for these reasons)! Oh! Oh! Oh! So clearly what I need to do is use the character traits of this Jennifer Keller that are true in my head and modify/add to her character such that dating and then breaking up with Rodney is in line with that! Oooh, yes... I think I can do this! She's not fully formed in my head yet, but I can feel her beginning to form in the back of my brain. I think I shall have to put this fic back on the backburner again and let my subconscious work on it. :)
Many thanks, Muse!
Fish Echo