I know something about being surprised by the size of a story that seems like it should be fairly short/easy to write but turns out to be a massive undertaking, instead! Tell me about it. Given I'm following Othello with DBS, you'd have thought I'd have worked out it would end up as a book. But somehow, the story seemed to be only about seven different things in my head when I started writing it :)
I'll have to check out some of your stories, I'm interested to read the kind of things you write. But it might take me a little while, because I'm short on time for reading, especially long series.
that my instinct is usually to shake her until her teeth rattle and tell her to stop being such a selfish little idiot That had me grinning, even thought I felt I shouldn't :). I understand completely, what Lucas did with her character after TPM was unforgivable, quite frankly, and in the end having her give up and die like that was the utlimate insult. BUT, I wonder if it is possible to make her flawed and human, and then grow from that a little bit of love. I don't know, but it's certainly more interesting than writing her as princess perfect. The second chapter of No Angel is up now, and how it's turned out probably won't help actually, but maybe the third and final part will...
I think the only blasted things I've ever written in my life that didn't end up being at least twice or three or ten times the largest size I originally thought they'd ever be are some of the things I've written that are structed after those "one word, one sentence" prompt challenges that are so popular on the LJ. And even those usually run long, due to my insane inability to string one sentence out into something like a fourth to a third of a full page of text. *Sighs and rolls eyes at self* I'm having the exact same thing happen to me again, right now, in point of fact. The Dormékin thing I've been working on was supposed to be a short story and it was a short story in my head all the way up until I started meddling with the AotC scenes and realized, "Oh, yeah, that's right, the novelization of AotC is a whole ruddy book, with dozens of scenes that aren't even in the film, isn't it?" *Bangs head on desk*
Eh, no worries! I'm somewhat obsessively driven, when it comes to my SW stuff, but believe me, I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, and since most of it is interconnected and a lot of it exists mainly in my head, it's really more like a continual WIP than anything else. You Became to Me (which is the working title for my main SW AU series) is really more like a planned series with lots and lots and lots and lots of various scribbled notes and fragments of scenes scattered hither, thither, and yon than an actual written series, at this point in time, and probably will be for a good while to come. As of right now, there's the RotS AU rewrite (that was supposed to be a one-shot thing and ended up being this freakin' huge trio that's forcing me to seriously map out a way to rewrite and/or deal with almost all of the EU, from the Rakatan Infinite Empire that actually precedes the birth of the Galactic Republic all the way through that hateful Legacy of the Force series), an accompanying AU rewrite of Outbound Flight, and a few dozen character sketches (a lot of them original characters who happen to be handmaidens of Padmé Amidala). I was supposed to be back tracking to rewrite TPM, but I got side-tracked by the notion of Dormékin and my insane idea of Sobidala. (And yes, you've read that right: Sobidala. Not Sobiwan. Not Obidala. Sobidala.) When the Dormékin is done, I should be going back to TPM. Though I'm supposed to be writing a completely unrelated to anything else I've written and posted to date AU version of the EU novel Star by Star based on the portrayal of Tahiri in that blasted ugly Legacy of the Force series (no, I'm really not a big fan of the series, as you can probably tell!) for this years NaNo, so . . . I might or might not get very far with that this year.
Oh, you've gotten more of it written! I must go and read it, then, and see how things are going (and if I've managed to stop wanting to shake her until her teeth rattle)!
Well I did actually read your Padme fic on fanfiction.net (the one with the many short moments set across your longer story - is that You became to me?). Of course ff.net wouldn't let me comment at the time and then I forgot. Anyway I really liked it, very tragic, frigteningly grim in places, and it got me wondering how Obi-Wan really felt towards her, given what happened later with Anakin. Was he just being honourable, for all that time? Did he really love her, in some way? I guess I'll have to read your longer story to find out... And (like you) I would say poor Padme, but by the end I wanted to shake her myself, and shout at her to get some self-respect!
Sobidala? Now that has got me intrigued! And I'm all for insane ideas. Can't stand soap-opera fanfic. I want everything heightened and intense and beautiful or at least tragic, or else I figure I may as well just watch TV. :)
Tell me about it. Given I'm following Othello with DBS, you'd have thought I'd have worked out it would end up as a book. But somehow, the story seemed to be only about seven different things in my head when I started writing it :)
I'll have to check out some of your stories, I'm interested to read the kind of things you write. But it might take me a little while, because I'm short on time for reading, especially long series.
that my instinct is usually to shake her until her teeth rattle and tell her to stop being such a selfish little idiot
That had me grinning, even thought I felt I shouldn't :). I understand completely, what Lucas did with her character after TPM was unforgivable, quite frankly, and in the end having her give up and die like that was the utlimate insult. BUT, I wonder if it is possible to make her flawed and human, and then grow from that a little bit of love. I don't know, but it's certainly more interesting than writing her as princess perfect. The second chapter of No Angel is up now, and how it's turned out probably won't help actually, but maybe the third and final part will...
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Eh, no worries! I'm somewhat obsessively driven, when it comes to my SW stuff, but believe me, I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, and since most of it is interconnected and a lot of it exists mainly in my head, it's really more like a continual WIP than anything else. You Became to Me (which is the working title for my main SW AU series) is really more like a planned series with lots and lots and lots and lots of various scribbled notes and fragments of scenes scattered hither, thither, and yon than an actual written series, at this point in time, and probably will be for a good while to come. As of right now, there's the RotS AU rewrite (that was supposed to be a one-shot thing and ended up being this freakin' huge trio that's forcing me to seriously map out a way to rewrite and/or deal with almost all of the EU, from the Rakatan Infinite Empire that actually precedes the birth of the Galactic Republic all the way through that hateful Legacy of the Force series), an accompanying AU rewrite of Outbound Flight, and a few dozen character sketches (a lot of them original characters who happen to be handmaidens of Padmé Amidala). I was supposed to be back tracking to rewrite TPM, but I got side-tracked by the notion of Dormékin and my insane idea of Sobidala. (And yes, you've read that right: Sobidala. Not Sobiwan. Not Obidala. Sobidala.) When the Dormékin is done, I should be going back to TPM. Though I'm supposed to be writing a completely unrelated to anything else I've written and posted to date AU version of the EU novel Star by Star based on the portrayal of Tahiri in that blasted ugly Legacy of the Force series (no, I'm really not a big fan of the series, as you can probably tell!) for this years NaNo, so . . . I might or might not get very far with that this year.
Oh, you've gotten more of it written! I must go and read it, then, and see how things are going (and if I've managed to stop wanting to shake her until her teeth rattle)!
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Sobidala? Now that has got me intrigued! And I'm all for insane ideas. Can't stand soap-opera fanfic. I want everything heightened and intense and beautiful or at least tragic, or else I figure I may as well just watch TV. :)
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