Thanks so much for the kind comment! Feedback brightens my day.
As for plot--yes, it's a large one, and getting more complicated every time I plop down to write some more of it. I do know where I'm going now, and something of how all the parts will go together at the end to make most of the events make sense. The question now is one of scene choice. I have lots of thoughts for side scenes and little bits of this and that that won't advance the narrative directly--they're for atmosphere and/or character development. I have a bad habit of getting sidetracked...so what do you think? Would you like a scene of Third-Mirror Roy exchanging barbs with a few high-society types over a dinner at Armstrong's, or should I skip ahead to Ishbal? How about a scene between First-Mirror Roy and Winry--I have a spot scene in mind (and half-written among the "slush notes" for this story) that at least sort of lays to rest some of the tension between them. I wasn't sure I wanted to bring Winry "onstage" much at all, but she sort of bulled her way in anyway. She's not the sort to allow her husband to go gallivanting off to risk his neck without giving him a piece of her mind about it.
I'm also debating how nasty I want to be to Roy. Ed and Al are already slated for some major brain-bending and massive alchemical efforts later on, and I know what happens to each of them in the final scene. Roy and Maes Hughes, however, still aren't nailed down. Whether Hughes comes out of it alive or dead is very much up in the air.
Re: Purrrrr...mfelizandyAugust 28 2008, 19:41:24 UTC
Oh, good, I'm glad you like the Roy-centrism. I'm such a Roy fangirl that most of the plots that I generate end up focusing on him. One of the reasons to let Hughes live is to please Roy--but it might take some of the impact off of the finale to rescue him.
Psycho-Ed resulted from small differences in a couple of historical events in his timeline. One of the most fun things about writing this story has been finding out what the characters will do if this or that canon event is tweaked. Some of them react in pretty extreme ways, Ed being the most dramatic case.
As for plot--yes, it's a large one, and getting more complicated every time I plop down to write some more of it. I do know where I'm going now, and something of how all the parts will go together at the end to make most of the events make sense. The question now is one of scene choice. I have lots of thoughts for side scenes and little bits of this and that that won't advance the narrative directly--they're for atmosphere and/or character development. I have a bad habit of getting sidetracked...so what do you think? Would you like a scene of Third-Mirror Roy exchanging barbs with a few high-society types over a dinner at Armstrong's, or should I skip ahead to Ishbal? How about a scene between First-Mirror Roy and Winry--I have a spot scene in mind (and half-written among the "slush notes" for this story) that at least sort of lays to rest some of the tension between them. I wasn't sure I wanted to bring Winry "onstage" much at all, but she sort of bulled her way in anyway. She's not the sort to allow her husband to go gallivanting off to risk his neck without giving him a piece of her mind about it.
I'm also debating how nasty I want to be to Roy. Ed and Al are already slated for some major brain-bending and massive alchemical efforts later on, and I know what happens to each of them in the final scene. Roy and Maes Hughes, however, still aren't nailed down. Whether Hughes comes out of it alive or dead is very much up in the air.
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Psycho-Ed resulted from small differences in a couple of historical events in his timeline. One of the most fun things about writing this story has been finding out what the characters will do if this or that canon event is tweaked. Some of them react in pretty extreme ways, Ed being the most dramatic case.
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