ahaha. after a while the fact that i'd asked for a commentary fell from my uppermost thoughts, but i did still remember it when it happened - and am pleased that such a commentary exists.
this is a v good fic for such a commentary it seems as so many bits were built up quite mechanically inot something that feels really easy and brilliant to read. i find your process very interesting - and other people's beta comments. very interesting to see how we do the same job - particularly when you're not having to see it through the lens of 'BUT WHY DONT YOU LIKE ME UNCONDITIONALLY???' which is why i don't get betaed enough...
i have intended on several occasions to write you some elbon fic - but have not yet managed it. it is now out in the open though (possibly again) so maybe that'll keep me to my plan.
I'm glad you were still interested after such a long wait, haha.
I think my process in general is very mechanical, especially since I tend to focus much more on structure than anything else. I generally write out plot outlines and then build up more and more on those (which is why I go through so many drafts, so much polishing has to happen before my first drafts make any sense at all). I do write some short pieces more organically, but this fic is probably a more typically written story. I don't know how you write, though? I remember that you tend not to write in drafts, but I think that's all I know.
Re: betaing, you may have noticed that I react to being corrected by being hugely apologetic... but I absolutely sympathize with the startled/resentful reaction to being betaed.
I don't think I ever heard about your plans to write me Elbon fic! Now that I know about it I am super excited, though, so I def advocate sticking to your plan.
i think yours is probably the healthiest and best way to write - and it clearly results in, you know, content.
mine is sort of the worst of all worlds, where first of all i have to know roughly what i want to write about (and by roughly i mean - not absolutely everything, there's still plenty of room for massive plot changes to happen - but i need to know how it begins and what the point of it was/what we learn by the end of it - not life lesson or whatever, but there has to be a big shift like previously they didn't like each other and now they do. that is pretty much the one i go for...) and then i write from the beginning to the end Very Slowly, sentence by sentence. sometimes it's only quite slowly, but usually - very slowly. writing is hard.
by which i mean - at some point i may indeed write some elbon fic - but it may be not until next gallifreyathon and/or until i have an idea that has a beginning and an end.
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this is a v good fic for such a commentary it seems as so many bits were built up quite mechanically inot something that feels really easy and brilliant to read. i find your process very interesting - and other people's beta comments. very interesting to see how we do the same job - particularly when you're not having to see it through the lens of 'BUT WHY DONT YOU LIKE ME UNCONDITIONALLY???' which is why i don't get betaed enough...
i have intended on several occasions to write you some elbon fic - but have not yet managed it. it is now out in the open though (possibly again) so maybe that'll keep me to my plan.
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I think my process in general is very mechanical, especially since I tend to focus much more on structure than anything else. I generally write out plot outlines and then build up more and more on those (which is why I go through so many drafts, so much polishing has to happen before my first drafts make any sense at all). I do write some short pieces more organically, but this fic is probably a more typically written story. I don't know how you write, though? I remember that you tend not to write in drafts, but I think that's all I know.
Re: betaing, you may have noticed that I react to being corrected by being hugely apologetic... but I absolutely sympathize with the startled/resentful reaction to being betaed.
I don't think I ever heard about your plans to write me Elbon fic! Now that I know about it I am super excited, though, so I def advocate sticking to your plan.
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mine is sort of the worst of all worlds, where first of all i have to know roughly what i want to write about (and by roughly i mean - not absolutely everything, there's still plenty of room for massive plot changes to happen - but i need to know how it begins and what the point of it was/what we learn by the end of it - not life lesson or whatever, but there has to be a big shift like previously they didn't like each other and now they do. that is pretty much the one i go for...) and then i write from the beginning to the end Very Slowly, sentence by sentence. sometimes it's only quite slowly, but usually - very slowly. writing is hard.
by which i mean - at some point i may indeed write some elbon fic - but it may be not until next gallifreyathon and/or until i have an idea that has a beginning and an end.
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