Fic: One More Battle of Wits (Mohinder, Sylar, PG-13, gen)

[squills]

Title: One More Battle of Wits
Rating: PG-13
Words: 2800
Characters: Mohinder, Sylar
Warnings: Violence, off-screen character deaths
Spoilers: Through 1.20, "Five Years Gone"
Disclaimer: Not my characters, not writing this for profit.
A/N: This is written for the

Comments

[violet_anchovy]

Oh, man, poor Mohinder, stuck fighting alone. This fic... kind of depresses me, because all odds are against him, and I don't know if it's better or worse that it ends at a point where he hasn't given up.

[squills]

I can't think about timelines and how they function on this show too long because my head starts to cave in. So I can't figure out if all this action is really null and void because Hiro's back in the past getting ready to change it all, or if there are essentially alternate universes being created by Hiro's messing around, and in this universe, Sylar will indeed continue triumphing, and Mohinder will have to struggle along with the trauma and pretty much everyone else he knows is dead

[barhaven]

I've got four things in process that are angstily romantic - five if you count the zombie thing - but I can't get anywhere with them because I just can't get into the proper frame of mind for "angsty romance".

Wanna trade zombies? I've been banging my head against mine for two weeks with no progress. :P (Damn uncooperative walking dead...)

[squills]

OMG. What is so frustrating about the zombies is that I have the entire fic mapped out, and I know exactly what is going to happen (barring Sylar taking over and changing things again, of course). But when I sit down to write it...nothing comes out. I dither over word choices and sentence structure, and take 90 minutes to write 3 paragraphs, and then give up and ignore it for days. I really can't figure out where the block is, in my brain. Maybe it's just that it's spring now and my mind would rather be outside in the sunshine?

[barhaven]

Sunshine is over-rated! *hides from the day-star*

I actually have most of mine written. I have a beginning I like and and ending I like, but there's a chunk in the middle that I've re-written from scratch three times now because I just can NOT get it to work the way I want it to. Maybe I should come up with something completely different, and tweak the rest of the story around it. God knows I'd probably make more progress with that than staring at the same scene over and over thinking "I know this sucks, but I don't know WHY it sucks." Gah.

For yours... Maybe you could pick a scene you're really keen on writing, and skip ahead to it? Could loosen up the mental block if you give your brain a taste of the good stuff, and have something solid on "paper" to work towards.