Unfinished Business Fic Meme
I am the kind of person who always has a ton of unfinished fic projects. Some are fairly new, some -- not so much. Every once in a while I go through my fic folder, and try to finish some WIPs that got abandoned somewhere on the way. Now seems to be the time to do this again, but I have tons of trouble mustering up any fandom motivation. I thought
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“When you’re with Stefan…Do you ever wonder if it’s just a game?”
“What?”
“When you’re with him, do you ever wonder if it’s just another one of Caden’s games?” Caroline asked taking another sip of her drink, “He always loved his games. And making us think he was someone else, making you fall for him all over again. That would be the ultimate game for him.”
“Stefan is not Caden.”
“But how do you really know?”
“Because I do.” Elena snapped.
“That seemed awfully defensive. Something you’re not telling your sister?”
“Before I officially met Stefan, I saw him.” Elena said slowly, “And I thought it was Caden at first, thought that somehow he was still here. But…Caden’s dead and I knew that, but I also had to be sure. So I followed him, I followed him everywhere for weeks. He’s Stefan Gilbert, not Caden Pierce; trust me, no one’s that good, not even him.”
“You followed him?”
“I had to be sure.”
“Way to live up to the vampire stereotype, Elena” She said tilting her glass at the other girl, “You sure know how to do the family name proud.”
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STEFAN IS THE DOPPLEGANGER? I WANT TO KNOW CADEN PIERCE.
CAROLINE AND ELENA ARE VAMPIRE SIBLINGS? :D
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Caden Pierce is the son of a politician and loves to create himself some havoc. A very dangerous combination.
Sibling rivalry built in from the moment when Caroline was born. Elena being born before her was the first thing she ever resented her for.
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CAROLINE AND ELENA AS SISTERS AND ELENA AS THE OLDER SISTER AND THEM BEING VAMPIRES AND THE ONES WHO COME TO MYSTIC FALLS JUST AJDK;AFSDAADSFA omg I am rly rly excited
And eeeeeeeeek Caden Pierce
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Hee. I'm glad your excited and that you like the idea so much. You're making me even more excited. And I LOVE the idea of them being vampire sisters, so I'm glad I'm not alone.
I'm still feeling Caden out, but as I keep coming up with more ideas for him and its making me more and more excited to write him.
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I'm trying. But I've been trying for a super long time. I have like 20k of notes and snippets and metaish shaped things and I just need it all to form a cohesive type thing. Or semi-cohesive at least.
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I totally understand the dilemma! What a (potentially) huge undertaking to begin!
Why don't you pick 5-10 moments that you specifically want to rewrite from canon - using the snippets and ideas you already have, of course. Or 5-10 plot points/moments. The perk of fandom is that - WE KNOW what you are doing and why. We will recognize the scenes. So you have the safety of being able to jump around. You don't necessarily have to tell us how they got from point A to point E - you can just show us how these moments would be different and keep building as you go until we have a completely different picture. Which means you can stick to the highlights - or the low moments after big events. Show us the things we never see, or show us how they are different. But don't try to fill in all the gaps - we don't need it and that's too heavy for anyone. I think if you have a base plan (Caroline Salvatore will be so cute at the Mikaelson ball, etc. etc.), then maybe it won't feel too big. And then you can focus on just those scenes that you really want to delve into.
Hope this helps! Let me know if you need a sounding board/beta! I love helping! And this is too lovely an idea to not be shared with everyone! <333
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That's actually a really great idea. I'm a really wordy writer, so I might be trying to fill too many plot points, instead of just remembering that people already know this stuff. I mean I'm changing a lot of stuff, becuase when different characters take different roles, they change the whole thing just by nature of being themselves, but it still has the basic bones of the plot of TVD (Elena comes back for Stefan, Caroline comes back for Caden, and it all goes to hell from there.) And I was wondering if one shots for select things would work. I finally confirmed Bonnie as an Original and worked out basic backstories/descriptions for the rest of them, but everything I have actually plotted, vauge as some of it is, is set during the first season and backstory. So maybe I have to think of it more that way. Because you're totally right, there are certain scenes I really do want to delve into more than others.
Also, I hadn't thought ahead about the Mikaelson ball, but now you have me all curious about the characters in their new roles there.
It totally helped! Thank you! And I actually really love and appriciate that (and you thinking its a lovely idea :D), do you mind if I friend you?
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I'm glad my rambly thoughts helped a bit!
And yes! Please friend me! Sorry for the late response! It is such a lovely idea! Please feel free to scream any ideas/writer-woes at me, kk?
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They really did! I've been working on the story off and on and getting really excited about aspect of it. And its still kind of a jumbled mess, but I'm working on it and figuring out on which parts I really want to focus on. (Also Elena-Caroline backstory is always very distracting.)
Yay! I'm off to friend you now and you should probably be expecting me to bother you with story ideas/problems at some point. :D
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Thank you!
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What you have so far is amazing, love the concept, I hope you do continue it.
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I totally plan to. I just have to, idk, make it work somehow. Translate all my pieces and notes into an actual story, which is so much harder than it should be. :D
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Please continue, because I think the Caroline-Elena dynamic is so built for a switch around. And I like it <333333 So much potential!
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