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

[beckyblack]

Ah, that early morning half asleep time, very productive!

I can be a slave to canon sometimes too. I have to learn to deviate from it, or at least interpret in a creative way. Although an - um - creative interpretation of canon is what's what's led to me being in a sulk with the A-Slash group just now, so what do I know?

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

That happened to me last night, I'd just shut off the pc, went upstairs to bed, and worked out how I could possibly split the chapter I'm working on and make it all flow. That makes me just brighter than a burned out light bulb too ;o)

It's great when that happens...just frustrating when I'm not sat in front of the pc at the time.

look forward to seeing chapter 8 soon then ;o)