The Plans

[scribblemyname]

So I break radio silence without much to show for it yet, but care not because accountability being what it is, I work better with a little. That said, the plans:

1. Write trovia a birthday fic (which I'm still wracking my brains over because I want to write something she'll like and I've clearly not gifted her in a while because I'm still wracking my brains over it)
2. Wrap my head around this thing I'm trying to do with Lisea and Malina (it's a big thing) and turn out something awesome by end of October because...
3. I'm doing NanoWrimo. I've tried this four years now (not in a row) and I want to finally win.
4. Then after that, Yuletide. Still waffling on my last two noms. If they let us nominate 4 fandoms, it'd be a wee easier, but alas! It's three.

Love y'all. See you soon.

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Comments

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

I guess I just found myself without any real angle into it with the AU ideas I've had/written. Then I wonder why it isn't easier if they are supposed to be together. They just don't seem to fit most of the time. Vred and Malina fit. Enadar and Felise fit.

Alik and Lisea... feels forced.

[scribblemyname]

Okay. I can see that.

But the moments that did occur happened without either of us thinking about it, trying to build that arc, or planning it, so I'm firmly in the boat of if it happens, it happens; if it doesn't, it doesn't. I don't feel a need to ship everyone, resolve a relationship, or give a relationship that wanted to happen or even got off the ground a happy ending. I'll let the characters be themselves and play out and see where that goes. If we don't like it, we can always edit it later, but yeah. The possible Lisea/Alik ship never struck me one way or the other and it's not a priority in my writing. I'm focusing on Lisea + Malina.

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'm that... indifferent to it. I like seeing the people I write about have a romance that works out, too. Maybe because that's as close as I'll ever get to having it myself, maybe not, but I like my stories to resolve the romances, too. Some I think might not work out, but if I'm going to spend the time reading/writing about someone's romance, I want it to end well. I'm not someone who enjoys seeing it come apart. I don't care if that's real. I have enough real. I want the happy.

That said, I don't want it when it feels fake and forced, and I don't like it when characters do things out of character for the sake of the romance, either.

That's probably why Alik and Lisea bothers me. It doesn't feel natural.

Yet I love Alik as a character and want him to get everything in the end. He keeps seeming more like someone who loses, though, and dies saving everyone else. *sigh*

[scribblemyname]

I don't tolerate my main characters dying in the end. So if it happens in first draft, then we'll strengthen/tweak for believability on edit. If it doesn't, we'll edit out any sign of it. Alik lives. We both end up happy.

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

It's not that I want Alik to die. He just keeps fighting me about the whole thing. Especially in the AU. He kind of broke me there.

Yeah. I guess we better just see how this draft goes.