they took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum
Here is the August 2016 writing roundup:
The Only Way Through (at AO3)
Star Wars; Ahsoka & Obi-Wan; g; 1,465 words
The past isn't done with Ahsoka yet.
There's Still Time to Change the Road You're On (at AO3)
Star Wars; Anakin, Leia, Luke; AU; 3,690 words
"Time travel? Are you kriffing kidding me?"
I still hate the title of the first one. I feel like for once I should have gone with the "slap a vague lyric on it and call it good" method instead of using a phrase from the story that just sounds stupidly pedestrian as a title because I wanted to post instead of waiting for the right title to come along. It's been a long time since this has happened to me!
That second story was in the "idek" stage last time I did a wip roundup, so I'm glad to have crossed it off the list. (No, for real though, you know I'm not one for much writing advice, but sometimes just give yourself permission to write the small version of the story you want, that focuses on the good parts - sometimes it'll grow into something larger anyway, but sometimes it's just really satisfying to write 3 or 4 thousand words of the "good parts" without having to worry about the plot mechanisms. Then you have the part you really want and you can always reread it to scratch that itch.)
Anyway, the list right now looks like this:
= Thing 1 is stalled as it's been for months (possibly I'm going to delete for a fifth? sixth? time and start over? idek, why so difficult, POV character?), but Thing 2 proceeds apace. There are other difficulties that are involved here, but I'm slowly figuring my way out of them with a lot of handwaving that basically equates to 'just go with it and it'll work itself out eventually.' I'm also trying to see how many tropes can be stuffed into one story (technically two stories) before it collapses under the weight. If this even gets done, well, the tags will show my findings. *g* (Not that I expect this to have an audience beyond me, but I really want it.)
= Rey & Finn's epic space road trip adventures! Featuring the Force ghost of Anakin Skywalker! Again, bogging down in some details (ugh, the logistics of space travel in the GFFA) but still a lot of fun in my head and hopefully on the page.
= Rey and Leia and some meaningful thing I haven't quite grasped yet - I'm still writing and deleting a lot, trying to figure out what the point is, but I feel like I have something I really want to say here, if I only knew what it was.
= Ahsoka unfrozen in the TFA era! on the backburner but always in my heart.
= I also have this AU Anakin/Ahsoka (Anakin/Obi-Wan) story that I have a tentative title for and some notes but no actual verbiage. Since the potential audience of this is, like, me and maybe one other person (if you're reading this, I think you know who you are! Hi!), I'm not really worried about when or if it gets written, since I enjoy telling it to myself in my head (though there was that time recently when I was PMSing that it turned super-angsty (and it wasn't even Anakin's fault! Mostly.) and I was like, yeah, no, this is a happy story, let's not do that, and then my brain came up with a way that made it both worse and better, which was...not what I was looking for, brain, thanks!) and I'm reluctant to give that up, even if I'll just come up with something else for my own entertainment if/when I actually start writing this.
That's all that's top of mind now, but any number of things crop up along the way (e.g., see above Ahsoka + Obi-Wan), so we'll see what happens.
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/868036.html.
people have commented there.
The Only Way Through (at AO3)
Star Wars; Ahsoka & Obi-Wan; g; 1,465 words
The past isn't done with Ahsoka yet.
There's Still Time to Change the Road You're On (at AO3)
Star Wars; Anakin, Leia, Luke; AU; 3,690 words
"Time travel? Are you kriffing kidding me?"
I still hate the title of the first one. I feel like for once I should have gone with the "slap a vague lyric on it and call it good" method instead of using a phrase from the story that just sounds stupidly pedestrian as a title because I wanted to post instead of waiting for the right title to come along. It's been a long time since this has happened to me!
That second story was in the "idek" stage last time I did a wip roundup, so I'm glad to have crossed it off the list. (No, for real though, you know I'm not one for much writing advice, but sometimes just give yourself permission to write the small version of the story you want, that focuses on the good parts - sometimes it'll grow into something larger anyway, but sometimes it's just really satisfying to write 3 or 4 thousand words of the "good parts" without having to worry about the plot mechanisms. Then you have the part you really want and you can always reread it to scratch that itch.)
Anyway, the list right now looks like this:
= Thing 1 is stalled as it's been for months (possibly I'm going to delete for a fifth? sixth? time and start over? idek, why so difficult, POV character?), but Thing 2 proceeds apace. There are other difficulties that are involved here, but I'm slowly figuring my way out of them with a lot of handwaving that basically equates to 'just go with it and it'll work itself out eventually.' I'm also trying to see how many tropes can be stuffed into one story (technically two stories) before it collapses under the weight. If this even gets done, well, the tags will show my findings. *g* (Not that I expect this to have an audience beyond me, but I really want it.)
= Rey & Finn's epic space road trip adventures! Featuring the Force ghost of Anakin Skywalker! Again, bogging down in some details (ugh, the logistics of space travel in the GFFA) but still a lot of fun in my head and hopefully on the page.
= Rey and Leia and some meaningful thing I haven't quite grasped yet - I'm still writing and deleting a lot, trying to figure out what the point is, but I feel like I have something I really want to say here, if I only knew what it was.
= Ahsoka unfrozen in the TFA era! on the backburner but always in my heart.
= I also have this AU Anakin/Ahsoka (Anakin/Obi-Wan) story that I have a tentative title for and some notes but no actual verbiage. Since the potential audience of this is, like, me and maybe one other person (if you're reading this, I think you know who you are! Hi!), I'm not really worried about when or if it gets written, since I enjoy telling it to myself in my head (though there was that time recently when I was PMSing that it turned super-angsty (and it wasn't even Anakin's fault! Mostly.) and I was like, yeah, no, this is a happy story, let's not do that, and then my brain came up with a way that made it both worse and better, which was...not what I was looking for, brain, thanks!) and I'm reluctant to give that up, even if I'll just come up with something else for my own entertainment if/when I actually start writing this.
That's all that's top of mind now, but any number of things crop up along the way (e.g., see above Ahsoka + Obi-Wan), so we'll see what happens.
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/868036.html.
people have commented there.