on fic (not-)writing
Apr. 7th, 2013 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kribbanIf there is one thing that struggling through my current fic (current word count: 11000, woo) has taught me is this:
I'M A REALLY LIMITED WRITER
;_;
No, I'm not saying that to be self-deprecating, it's true. I've been cheating the system for years by writing short ficlets, and introspective stories, and stories where the plot is loosely structured around time cuts or POV cuts or themes, as in the 5 + 1 format. And it has served me well! I'd like to think that the bulk of what I've written is pretty good.
But writing a traditionally structured story with more than two characters where the plot unveils from scene to scene and the dialogue is supposed to explain it all? Fuck fuck fuck.
What do you do when you have five people in a room who all have important things to say? At some point even I don't know who is supposed to be talking.
And add to that that I'm supposed to write a satisfying EMOTIONAL arc that gives the reader all those fluffy-achey feelings that I want them to have - and I'm a way out of my depth. If it wasn't for my amazingly talanted beta reader, none of what I have produced so far would even be readable.
This rant was brought to you by spending all day on a tiny part of a scene and not getting anywhere.
I'M A REALLY LIMITED WRITER
;_;
No, I'm not saying that to be self-deprecating, it's true. I've been cheating the system for years by writing short ficlets, and introspective stories, and stories where the plot is loosely structured around time cuts or POV cuts or themes, as in the 5 + 1 format. And it has served me well! I'd like to think that the bulk of what I've written is pretty good.
But writing a traditionally structured story with more than two characters where the plot unveils from scene to scene and the dialogue is supposed to explain it all? Fuck fuck fuck.
What do you do when you have five people in a room who all have important things to say? At some point even I don't know who is supposed to be talking.
And add to that that I'm supposed to write a satisfying EMOTIONAL arc that gives the reader all those fluffy-achey feelings that I want them to have - and I'm a way out of my depth. If it wasn't for my amazingly talanted beta reader, none of what I have produced so far would even be readable.
This rant was brought to you by spending all day on a tiny part of a scene and not getting anywhere.
