Chapter 8 progress

[ostarella]

I ran into a stumbling block with 8 - there was one small scene I wanted to include, just to anchor things with canon. I figured it was just a small thing, and even though I wanted it in there, it was bugging me as to how to do it. I couldn't figure out how the details from the scene in the show could fit, realistically, into this story. Nor how to "casually" bring it up. So, this morning, half-asleep, it came to me. Both solutions.

One - I took canon too literally.

Two - instead of making it an incidental - make it the culminating point of the chapter, *and* it figures heavily into the why's of the rest of the story.

I am Brilliant.

Okay, maybe just brighter than a burned out light bulb  ;-)

It was so neat, though - all I had to do was add two sentences to what I already had written and it changed the whole feeling of the chapter. That's what I love about writing - when suddenly, everything just...fits.

Now I just have to find time to get down and dirty with the details.

Comments

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

That's one thing that I never "got" in slash stories - where the guys would proclaim they're in this relationship and yet they aren't gay. I don't know, maybe I'm not "up" on gayness, but they seem to think that just because it's a monogamous relationship, that makes it not gay. I'm confused - or someone is. ;-)

But yeah, romance novels - I read them when I was a teenager (that's my only excuse). I think the really bad thing about romance novels is the heroine can be strong in everything except the relationship. So that does follow through in slash stories - Face takes out several bad guys with a heavy duty machine gun and then runs to Strong and Wise Murdock, crying for comfort at the life they can never have. Ewwww

[beckyblack]

Ah yes, the actual homophobic slash! How does that work? The implied message of it is: "Yes, I'm sleeping with my best friend, but I'm not one of those filthy homos!" If that is what the character is basically saying the story needs to address the issues that character may have to deal with. :D

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

But yeah, romance novels - I read them when I was a teenager (that's my only excuse).

I think I read some, but not many, but I was in the waiting room of a train station today (It's a steam railway, and we took a steam train to see Santa) as it was bitterly cold, and there were loads of books. Took one out, just to read the back, as a matter of interest, it being a romance novel, and the blurb thingy on the back.

"blah, blah, blah, ...as he ran his fingers through her chestnut mane..." lol! I thought it was talking about a bloody horse, not a woman!!!! ...does mane give you a horse image, rather than long hair? well it does me!