*s* I was actually about to mention your newfound Arthur/Eames appreciation on YM. I will be curious if it leaks into your writing, not that I anticipate curtainfic from you. ;)
Yesterday, in my head, I caught myself composing Arthur/Eames disastrous-relationship fic. It started well (a minor argument over a tie), but turned into mountains of overdone backstory and not enough actual stuff happening, and I gave up.
It's occasionally alarming how hard it is to make a story go FORWARD from the given point, rather than loop round, start further back, and work its way to that point. I think the key is maybe working out the times when you need to let it.
I know how I want it to start and end - it's just the middle bit that, rather than going anywhere, wants to be all "Let's have long rambling flashbacks to the backstories for Arthur and Eames you've come up with, and explain them in tedious detail!" (Basically, Arthur grew up powdered-milk poor, and is very into the nice suits and quality shoes and properly-tied ties because he's a professional, dammit, and he's not going to end up spending his retirement in a trailer park like his dad. But he can't quite one-hundred-percent nail the smooth professional thing, and tends to come over as trying-too-hard and slightly off, which is part of the reason why he's working for Cobb - he's not quite upper-class enough for the high-end jobs, and there isn't enough money in the mid-range stuff where they're willing to take him on. And Eames grew up upperclass English, and the neat tie and nice suit always feel like a costume he's putting on to please people, so he can do it while forging, but not on a daily basis, and the whole point of leaving
( ... )
Comments 7
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
Leave a comment