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Stumbled across this NY Mag article on monochromatic fashion from 2008 (via the goldenmeans fashion blog) and hit this quote:
TEF is giving me some issues lately. I haven't actually started writing anything since I sent off ch10a a couple of weeks ago (a travesty, I know) partly because I've hit one of those familiar snag-points where I'm near-immobilized by a plot thread that continues to grow in scope the more I think about it and of course does not fit in with my current plans for TEF. This is precisely why I delayed outlining Part Three in detail(and partly to blame for how minimal the end of my Part Two outline was when I started) - while I had an idea of where I wanted to go, I knew that as I wrote it a good deal of revisions would need to be made in order to accommodate the reality that was developing within the story. In retrospect, that was a stupid idea (to delay work on my outline). It's easier for me to work with something documented, even if I wind up discarding it. Blagh, self. (Perhaps this is why I am perusing fashion blogs and resorting to retail therapy for the day.)
I suppose my goal for tomorrow should be to sit down and work this puppy out. At the very least that'll make me feel better about it. Maybe. My backburner fear is this plot thread may very well overtake what I had previously conceived as the fic's climax, which... grr, I don't know, it's an aggravating issue. This potentially new climax is more, um, GRAND and has some elements in there that I really like but it's missing the subtlety (for lack of a better word) and steady build of the current climax, as well as the clear inclusion of everybody involved. Ideally I'd like to find a way to marry the two without losing focus on all of the characters.
tl;dr - Reds fic! And outlines are your friend. Also, writing is hard.
"If you look good in white, you look really good in black."And I guess I've got Reds on the brain because the first thing I thought of was "Damn, this would make a fantastic summary for a Reds fic." GOOD SHIVERS, MAN.
-Karim Rashid, emphasis mine
TEF is giving me some issues lately. I haven't actually started writing anything since I sent off ch10a a couple of weeks ago (a travesty, I know) partly because I've hit one of those familiar snag-points where I'm near-immobilized by a plot thread that continues to grow in scope the more I think about it and of course does not fit in with my current plans for TEF. This is precisely why I delayed outlining Part Three in detail(and partly to blame for how minimal the end of my Part Two outline was when I started) - while I had an idea of where I wanted to go, I knew that as I wrote it a good deal of revisions would need to be made in order to accommodate the reality that was developing within the story. In retrospect, that was a stupid idea (to delay work on my outline). It's easier for me to work with something documented, even if I wind up discarding it. Blagh, self. (Perhaps this is why I am perusing fashion blogs and resorting to retail therapy for the day.)
I suppose my goal for tomorrow should be to sit down and work this puppy out. At the very least that'll make me feel better about it. Maybe. My backburner fear is this plot thread may very well overtake what I had previously conceived as the fic's climax, which... grr, I don't know, it's an aggravating issue. This potentially new climax is more, um, GRAND and has some elements in there that I really like but it's missing the subtlety (for lack of a better word) and steady build of the current climax, as well as the clear inclusion of everybody involved. Ideally I'd like to find a way to marry the two without losing focus on all of the characters.
tl;dr - Reds fic! And outlines are your friend. Also, writing is hard.
