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 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.