Notes on writing
Aug. 15th, 2010 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieBoo. I hate it when I have to completely abandon a piece I've been working on because it just has too many problems to fix. Oh, well. Maybe I can incorporate sections of it into something else in the future.
I also don't like coming up with plot. Every three months or so for the past year, I've opened up my (post-series, part of my AU) "Ivanova and Garibaldi go to Earth to save President Luchenko from neo-Home Guard terrorists" fic and written two or three scenes it before realizing I still don't really have any kind of scaffolding to hang those scenes on. This is one of those times, and while I really like the nine scenes I have, I'm a loss about the mechanics of writing political intrigue/thriller stuff.
In better news, I've picked the poems for the "Five Poems Marcus Cole Knows by Heart" idea that's been kicking around in my head, and I may even have come up with a structure for the fic. I was both astonished and a little perturbed to realize that they're from William Carlos Williams, Donne, Millay, Pound, and Barrett Browning. Of the five, the only one I actually consider myself a fan of is Millay, and I actively dislike most of what Williams, Pound, and to a lesser extent Barrett Browning wrote. (Truly, I cannot describe to you my loathing for that damn plums poem.) I mean, I like these poems well enough, obviously, and they seem Marcusy, which is more important, but still, it's poking holes in my self-image.
(*cough* I may, possibly, have considered the idea of junking the Donne and Barrett Browning in favor of some combination of Yeats, Frost, Eliot, HD, Stevens, Bishop, and Auden so that I could make it into "Five Modernist Poems Marcus Cole Knows by Heart." Ahem. No, I don't have strong period preferences at all, why do you ask?)
I have made no progress on my "Marcus has a day right out of Ulysses" piece, which may well stay a pipe dream, but it's a very entertaining one nonetheless.
I also don't like coming up with plot. Every three months or so for the past year, I've opened up my (post-series, part of my AU) "Ivanova and Garibaldi go to Earth to save President Luchenko from neo-Home Guard terrorists" fic and written two or three scenes it before realizing I still don't really have any kind of scaffolding to hang those scenes on. This is one of those times, and while I really like the nine scenes I have, I'm a loss about the mechanics of writing political intrigue/thriller stuff.
In better news, I've picked the poems for the "Five Poems Marcus Cole Knows by Heart" idea that's been kicking around in my head, and I may even have come up with a structure for the fic. I was both astonished and a little perturbed to realize that they're from William Carlos Williams, Donne, Millay, Pound, and Barrett Browning. Of the five, the only one I actually consider myself a fan of is Millay, and I actively dislike most of what Williams, Pound, and to a lesser extent Barrett Browning wrote. (Truly, I cannot describe to you my loathing for that damn plums poem.) I mean, I like these poems well enough, obviously, and they seem Marcusy, which is more important, but still, it's poking holes in my self-image.
(*cough* I may, possibly, have considered the idea of junking the Donne and Barrett Browning in favor of some combination of Yeats, Frost, Eliot, HD, Stevens, Bishop, and Auden so that I could make it into "Five Modernist Poems Marcus Cole Knows by Heart." Ahem. No, I don't have strong period preferences at all, why do you ask?)
I have made no progress on my "Marcus has a day right out of Ulysses" piece, which may well stay a pipe dream, but it's a very entertaining one nonetheless.
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Date: 2010-08-16 05:23 am (UTC)Ahahaha. That sounds like what happens with my AU series. It started from one, just one, 1,000-word fic for which I did not intend even a sequel. Then a few commenters, and later Susan herself, demanded one, which was long and nearly broke me. I was sure I was done, but no. No,
So yes, I feel your pain. ;)
although it doesn't include "What My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why," which, having read it, seems like a bit of a misstep
Oh, it does. That's sad. Hopefully it has "Recuerdo," though. And "We talk of taxes." Also "Dirge without Music." (Okay, so I have the complete works on my bookshelf and could do this all night, but I'll spare you. *g*)