Writing is a good distraction from work insanity
This week's work clusterfuck is too complicated to detail so I'll just summarise: nobody knows what the hell they want us to launch on Canada Day weekend so my team is being pulled in half a dozen different directions at once.
It's exactly as fun as it sounds.
I'm blaming this in part for the fact that I've started writing the crackiest, daftest fic I could possibly think of. It's probably also contributing to me getting a lot of words down on my Marvel Big Bang fic at the same time.
Well, the work stress and the sight of my editing notes on the fic I finished last week. It's not that it's a bad story and I know that it's salvageable, but it needs some serious work. Several sections need rewriting, there are two new scenes needed and a heck of a lot of other scenes need tweaking and smoothing before it will even be ready to go to my beta. Otherwise it will be a four rounds of betaing fic and Fahre will kill me if we do that again :-D
So I'm spending all my spare minutes writing total crack and the Marvel Big Bang and for some reason, because they're both weird and silly and fun fics, I think I'm producing words that aren't terrible. The crack fic has same feeling I had writing Dreams and Circus Crowds: it's fluffy and silly with maybe a hint of angst and I'm having so much fun the words just flow. And as with that one, I thought it would be a short silly fic but I suspect it will be something more significant.
I'm flying by the seat of my pants on it and seeing where it takes me :-D
This year's Marvel Big Bang fic is also proving to be fun now that I'm getting some momentum on it. I knew going in that it would be a long fic, but I'm getting a better feel for just how long now that I'm really working on it: Very Long. Oops. I've got nearly three months to get the first draft together, though, so it's definitely doable.
It's reminding me of why I enjoy writing after a few weeks of working on something that I think will be good when I've kicked it into shape, but was definitely hard work rather than fun. The hard work fics aren't bad to work on, not at all. Sometimes they produce something that I didn't think I was capable of doing.
But I'm starting to notice that the ones that start out as weird crack fun fics and then somehow grow into something deeper (but still fun) as I write seem to produce my best writing. I wonder why?
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It's exactly as fun as it sounds.
I'm blaming this in part for the fact that I've started writing the crackiest, daftest fic I could possibly think of. It's probably also contributing to me getting a lot of words down on my Marvel Big Bang fic at the same time.
Well, the work stress and the sight of my editing notes on the fic I finished last week. It's not that it's a bad story and I know that it's salvageable, but it needs some serious work. Several sections need rewriting, there are two new scenes needed and a heck of a lot of other scenes need tweaking and smoothing before it will even be ready to go to my beta. Otherwise it will be a four rounds of betaing fic and Fahre will kill me if we do that again :-D
So I'm spending all my spare minutes writing total crack and the Marvel Big Bang and for some reason, because they're both weird and silly and fun fics, I think I'm producing words that aren't terrible. The crack fic has same feeling I had writing Dreams and Circus Crowds: it's fluffy and silly with maybe a hint of angst and I'm having so much fun the words just flow. And as with that one, I thought it would be a short silly fic but I suspect it will be something more significant.
I'm flying by the seat of my pants on it and seeing where it takes me :-D
This year's Marvel Big Bang fic is also proving to be fun now that I'm getting some momentum on it. I knew going in that it would be a long fic, but I'm getting a better feel for just how long now that I'm really working on it: Very Long. Oops. I've got nearly three months to get the first draft together, though, so it's definitely doable.
It's reminding me of why I enjoy writing after a few weeks of working on something that I think will be good when I've kicked it into shape, but was definitely hard work rather than fun. The hard work fics aren't bad to work on, not at all. Sometimes they produce something that I didn't think I was capable of doing.
But I'm starting to notice that the ones that start out as weird crack fun fics and then somehow grow into something deeper (but still fun) as I write seem to produce my best writing. I wonder why?
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