Discussion Lost in a Good Fic -- The Well of Lost Plots Social Thread

Hi guys. Is jealous of cat cuddles. I am striving to continue my fic but I've hit an unavoidable complication and am rather stuck.

 

That feeling is one of the worst.

 

*Sips coffee* Thanks, Pronker. Yes, Cushy is rather glum. I fear it will result in pissing off my readers in one of two ways depending on what I do next.

 

*ulps* Sometimes that cannot be helped. There are some fallbacks, like ... 'it was all a dream' sequence? feverish delusions? dramatic pullback to reveal an alien who was watching the whole plot unfold all the time? wrap up everything in a quick epilogue?

 

True but I really didn't intend to do what I'm now faced with it likely will be a CD or abandoning the tale.

 

What's a CD?

 

Character Death

 

I see. It sounds like this is maybe farther into dark! fic than what was outlined.

 

I have been striving to have a positive fic but with struggles and trials. I still intend to focus on what I said representing Chris/Peter's bond through their characters but I also desired it to be a finale to Star Wars of sorts as well.

 

Interesting. Keep up the positivity is what I'd regularly say but a finale can't help, well, being somewhat grim and final.

 

Idrelle_Miocovani - hello! Best of luck with all those projects and hope you can and do get back to writing.

I am so chuffed with recent news regarding new canon ergo that one of the absolute unquestionably brill! authors of Legends will be re-canonizing one of his awesome characters. Doubtless it will have New Canon spin/details but still be recognizable as .... yayness,

Spoiler

Zahn bringing us Thrawn again

Cushing's Admirer - bummer about the plot corner you've written into What I like is a close that could lead to more than one conclusion -- for instance, an escape pod leaves a ship right before it explodes so you hope/believe the character got away safely. Or the characters make a gracious exit, LOL "I'm leaving this political rodent race for good this time." So they could go to some peaceful world and have a happy serene ending

Or you could write 2 epilogues with vastly different endings and your readers could pick the one they like most

 

The one I am aiming for is bittersweet but fitting.

 

Good to see this thread active again.

Hello everyone.

*Adds CD to acronym lexicon*

I have too many fics stalled because I worry about reader reaction. Maybe I should just write the **** things, and worry about them afterwards.

 

Mira_Jade Thank you for the encouragement. The tale is not over. However, a certain 'era' is and it's been an emotional journey wrapping it up.

 

Cushing's Admirer - I find sometimes a story will naturally lean towards character death as a finale, no matter how hard I try to fight it. I think if you go with your gut instinct, you'll get over the hurdle you're stuck on. Good luck finishing your fic!

Mira_Jade - Thank you for the cyberglomp!! I'm doing great - recently finished my MFA, just finished working on a theatre show that had an off-West End run in London last week, now finally getting around to having a holiday haha . And trying to decide what fandom I want to write my first fanfic in a couple years in! Gahh! Any suggestions for a fandom? If I don't know it, then I'll go watch/read it and hopefully the muse comes up with something!

Sith-I-5 - Not sure if this helps, but with my plays (or any story, really, fan fic or no), I have to focus on writing the best play I can, and then worry about audience reaction later. You can never guess how an audience is going to react, so it's pointless to worry too much a variable you can't control. I try to write with my heart and my gut instinct, then learn what I can from the way the story is received and try to apply those things into my next revision/chapter/story/what-have-you.

 

Idrelle_Miocovani - thank you for advice and encouragement.

I used the shift in attitude already to add 391 words to a fic that was stalled because of the reader reaction worry problem, and I hope to free up probably two more fics with this new freedom of expression.

 

Mira_Jade -- Cool, cool! I will try to whip off something Hamilton related this week. I wrote 8 pages of a Dragon Age: Inquisition fan fic last night (still working on it -- it started spiralling into multiple sections ), so I'm hoping to get that done either today or tomorrow once I decide what I want to do with it. I haven't written prose in over a year, so it was SO NICE to get back to that. I love theatre and I love my job, but plays are so specific in their format that you miss out on the wonderful things you can do with story writing. I missed playing with the narrative voice!

But... I still have edits to do on two of my plays that are doing fairly well right now (my full length work has interest from an artistic director in Calgary, so we'll see where that goes) so I can't get completely distracted. My playwright's muse is incredibly tickled by historical drama right now, so I have a new play in the works about Julie d'Aubigny (a 17th century French swordswoman and opera singer -- wikipedia her, her life is wild). Now that I'm on break, I have several weeks to write as much or as little as I want without any pressure from deadlines, so it's nice. Writing can be fun again. yipeee.

 

Mira_Jade I am waaayyy too into historical drama right now. Half my new play ideas take place in the 17th or 18th centuries (which are the centuries I know best when it comes to English and French history). If anything, it gives me plenty of material to chew over for the next few years

(I'm hoping to speed-write something tomorrow. I have "Burn" running through my head, so maybe something related to that. Eliza is my fav. And I kind of want to do something angsty. )

 

Working on an Archer-themed Star Trek short, as the latter seem very popular around here, lately.

Edit:

Noooooooooooo!

Thomas Gibson (SSA Aaron Hotchner) fired from Criminal Minds!

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/long-standing-criminal-minds-actor-074636674.html?nhp=1

 

Oooh boy, FINALLY got consistent internet back after a move. I tried to keep up with things on my phone, but I don't have the best data plan in the world.

How's the Archer-themed Star Trek fic going, Sith-I-5?

 

Good that you have internet back. You really miss it when you don't have it.

Got a host of fics on the go, and I am trying to add a couple hundred words to them at a time. For the Archer one, the next scene I am thinking through how to do, is the equivalent of Archer shooting a projectile that ricochet's around to hit an apparently absent Brett (fellow ISIS employee), and have Brett shout his usual refrain.

Seen a couple of Youtube vids featuring Kreiger's second Japanese waifu hologram, and thinking about incorporating her voice into the replicator, if Archer gets his projectile weapon that way, since, far as I know anyway, phasers don't ricochet.