Repackaging and pitching ideas to myself.
So I'm plotting the sequel to Pilots, and boy is it fun. The last thing I want to do is pull a Spiderman 3 and write in too many villains/story arcs, therefore muddling the story and diluting it. I brainstormed a ton of ideas, including plot points and subplots, but every time I throw them at the dartboard they all either stick or don't. All I have are two concrete scenes and an ending. It's not much to go on.
That was until I realized that every thought I had with regard to the sequel boiled down to this one question - will Tron stay on the Grid or come out into the User world?
I cannot emphasize this enough, especially considering the utterly MASSIVE amount of editing going on right now.
Please, please, please reread We Are Pilots as I upload the revised chapters. I cannot emphasize it enough. The revisions aren't just a matter of replacing choice words or reworking certain phrases. Entire paragraphs are either being added or deleted, and scenes/themes/concepts are all being changed to address certain gaps/plot holes or to add some clarity. I am particularly displeased with the scenes at Flynn's safe house so the revisions there will be especially extensive.
So, yeah. Please read the revised chapters as they're loaded.
The more I think about it the more I really want to go polish up Worlds In Collision. Really, it's not a bad fic. It's actually pretty impressive for a fic of its length and content. Rewrite the first season to include Jessica Moore and Castiel (and, to a lesser extent, Anna)? Hells yeah.
To be honest I only really stalled out at Episode 1.03 because I burned out horribly after rewriting Episode 1.02.
You know what? Here's the deal - if you're up to betaing +210k words of fic shoot me a PM with your email or something. I probably left off revisions between Episodes 1.02 and 1.03 but to hell with my original plan of revising things myself before finding a beta - if you could only see what kind of hell I unleashed on my printed copy of Pilots. What I really need to know is if I should rewrite Episode 1.03 so that it can match the other episodes in terms of length and detail, or of it's long enough and detailed enough to stand on its own without me rewriting it (which involves me watching the episode a bajillion times and researching the area the fictional town is located in).
It's time to get some monkeys off my back.
~Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who~
Bring it on, Moffat.
That was until I realized that every thought I had with regard to the sequel boiled down to this one question - will Tron stay on the Grid or come out into the User world?
I cannot emphasize this enough, especially considering the utterly MASSIVE amount of editing going on right now.
Please, please, please reread We Are Pilots as I upload the revised chapters. I cannot emphasize it enough. The revisions aren't just a matter of replacing choice words or reworking certain phrases. Entire paragraphs are either being added or deleted, and scenes/themes/concepts are all being changed to address certain gaps/plot holes or to add some clarity. I am particularly displeased with the scenes at Flynn's safe house so the revisions there will be especially extensive.
So, yeah. Please read the revised chapters as they're loaded.
The more I think about it the more I really want to go polish up Worlds In Collision. Really, it's not a bad fic. It's actually pretty impressive for a fic of its length and content. Rewrite the first season to include Jessica Moore and Castiel (and, to a lesser extent, Anna)? Hells yeah.
To be honest I only really stalled out at Episode 1.03 because I burned out horribly after rewriting Episode 1.02.
You know what? Here's the deal - if you're up to betaing +210k words of fic shoot me a PM with your email or something. I probably left off revisions between Episodes 1.02 and 1.03 but to hell with my original plan of revising things myself before finding a beta - if you could only see what kind of hell I unleashed on my printed copy of Pilots. What I really need to know is if I should rewrite Episode 1.03 so that it can match the other episodes in terms of length and detail, or of it's long enough and detailed enough to stand on its own without me rewriting it (which involves me watching the episode a bajillion times and researching the area the fictional town is located in).
It's time to get some monkeys off my back.
~Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who~
Bring it on, Moffat.