recap of the past half year and assorted fandom stuff, pt. 2
(continued from previous post)
And probably the biggest part of the problem was that once I finally settled on what I wanted to write, my plan was far too ambitious for what little time remained, so I had to cobble together a rushed ending which left some major threads hanging, because I simply wasn't capable of finishing the "proper" ending before the deadline.
I actually ran into a similar situation during Yuletide of 2008, but that one had worked out better because it was the Scarlet Pimpernel and having Percy suddenly escape from the seemingly inescapable situation without any explanation fit with the source material. In fact, judging by the reviews, people probably would have reacted much less favorably to the originally intended ending simply because in that one the explaination of "he could have left whenever he wanted and was just hanging around to mess with people" was *not* an option and getting to a happy ending would have required going through much darker territory first.
Unfortunately, I can't make the same claim about this past year's story, and I really need to write the "proper" ending before I can feel okay about it. I should have written it back in January. Listing all the reasons why I haven't done it yet just makes me sound pathetic, so I won't. On the plus side of Yuletide 2010, there was the unexpected awesomeness of my author writing both a Jekyll story and a the Good Guys story for me. The Jekyll one made me especially happy, because I had been waiting for someone to take a stab at the friendship between Henry Jekyll and Robert Louis Stevenson ever since I first saw the series.
Man, I had forgotten how long it took to peck out a journal entry with the DS stilus and how much it made my hand hurt. At this rate I'm not going to finish until around 8 or 9am, and I really should start trying to get some sleep soon, so I'll have to continue this later.
And probably the biggest part of the problem was that once I finally settled on what I wanted to write, my plan was far too ambitious for what little time remained, so I had to cobble together a rushed ending which left some major threads hanging, because I simply wasn't capable of finishing the "proper" ending before the deadline.
I actually ran into a similar situation during Yuletide of 2008, but that one had worked out better because it was the Scarlet Pimpernel and having Percy suddenly escape from the seemingly inescapable situation without any explanation fit with the source material. In fact, judging by the reviews, people probably would have reacted much less favorably to the originally intended ending simply because in that one the explaination of "he could have left whenever he wanted and was just hanging around to mess with people" was *not* an option and getting to a happy ending would have required going through much darker territory first.
Unfortunately, I can't make the same claim about this past year's story, and I really need to write the "proper" ending before I can feel okay about it. I should have written it back in January. Listing all the reasons why I haven't done it yet just makes me sound pathetic, so I won't. On the plus side of Yuletide 2010, there was the unexpected awesomeness of my author writing both a Jekyll story and a the Good Guys story for me. The Jekyll one made me especially happy, because I had been waiting for someone to take a stab at the friendship between Henry Jekyll and Robert Louis Stevenson ever since I first saw the series.
Man, I had forgotten how long it took to peck out a journal entry with the DS stilus and how much it made my hand hurt. At this rate I'm not going to finish until around 8 or 9am, and I really should start trying to get some sleep soon, so I'll have to continue this later.