The day when Kerouac makes sense as a framing structure is the day you've completely lost all hope.
So there's this thing I'm writing, right, and I took a week off from it and I went back yesterday and I realised that it's basically turned into a "kill your darlings" type of piece -- at least the way I originally imagined it. There's this story all around the fic and I thought that I would be able to find a way to hint at said story or imply it or write around the edges of it but there's really not, or there is, possibly, just very implied or toward the edges, so the fic itself is, like, the first six thousand words of this thirty-thousand word story and it's like --
-- this is an interesting idea and I like it, I like the possible framing of it and the potential of it, I just don't want to write it. I want to write the six thousand words and only the six thousand words but I also feel like if I just drop into the basic six thousand word fic, there's no background to set the scene and there are things which wouldn't make any sort of sense at all (and, yes, I would have to kill even more of my precious darlings and really, the document I have with the bits I've written and cut is already longer than the document with the actual fic, what the fuck, self). So that's what I'm having trouble with, trying to figure out the structure when I've already got the story, for the most part, written in my head.
(I feel like I should be able to figure this out and not being able to figure it out makes me a bad writer.)
(I don't want to use flashbacks.)
(This story lacks all hope.)
(I think I may know how to end it, though.)
(Possibly.)
(Probably not.)
(We'll see.)
(I may have to shelve this one for now.)
-- this is an interesting idea and I like it, I like the possible framing of it and the potential of it, I just don't want to write it. I want to write the six thousand words and only the six thousand words but I also feel like if I just drop into the basic six thousand word fic, there's no background to set the scene and there are things which wouldn't make any sort of sense at all (and, yes, I would have to kill even more of my precious darlings and really, the document I have with the bits I've written and cut is already longer than the document with the actual fic, what the fuck, self). So that's what I'm having trouble with, trying to figure out the structure when I've already got the story, for the most part, written in my head.
(I feel like I should be able to figure this out and not being able to figure it out makes me a bad writer.)
(I don't want to use flashbacks.)
(This story lacks all hope.)
(I think I may know how to end it, though.)
(Possibly.)
(Probably not.)
(We'll see.)
(I may have to shelve this one for now.)