Open Thread: Oracle Hotline
Jun. 15th, 2018 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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superhero_muses--How many unfinished works do you have going right now?
*pokes around Google Docs*
Looks like three: a vampire fic, a semi-nonfiction history of a semi-fictional character, and a three-person celebratory sex scene with a fourth person watching (consensually all around).
I'm starting to poke at the idea of a "pretend relationship" story where Clark and Bruce have to pretend to be newlyweds in the suburbs, but I have yet to be able to put together a plot framework for that yet, so it's still languishing a bit.
Really, nothing's happening elsewhere in my head until I finish up the second piece, the history. And then I'm going to need a couple of days to just cry. 50,000 words, two years, a staggering amount of research--I'm as proud of it as I am of my doctoral thesis. Maybe more so, because there's so much more of me in it. It's going to take a little while to recover from that.
I hope your writing is going well, that you're having fun, and that all your WiPs are inspiring!
*pokes around Google Docs*
Looks like three: a vampire fic, a semi-nonfiction history of a semi-fictional character, and a three-person celebratory sex scene with a fourth person watching (consensually all around).
I'm starting to poke at the idea of a "pretend relationship" story where Clark and Bruce have to pretend to be newlyweds in the suburbs, but I have yet to be able to put together a plot framework for that yet, so it's still languishing a bit.
Really, nothing's happening elsewhere in my head until I finish up the second piece, the history. And then I'm going to need a couple of days to just cry. 50,000 words, two years, a staggering amount of research--I'm as proud of it as I am of my doctoral thesis. Maybe more so, because there's so much more of me in it. It's going to take a little while to recover from that.
I hope your writing is going well, that you're having fun, and that all your WiPs are inspiring!
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Date: 2018-06-15 03:12 am (UTC)There are some bits and pieces here and there but they're like the short story start. Very likely they'll never be picked up again so I consider them dead and done.
Okay, I have to say that fictional history type things are one of my favorite things. I do hope you finish it 'cause that sounds so cool!
The Clark/Bruce thing sounds awesome, too. Hey, how about a 'history' of their marriage? 8D
Good luck with your writing and recovery from writing!
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Date: 2019-05-17 07:09 am (UTC)It's such a fun format! (Can you tell the Appendices in Lord of the Rings were some of my favorite things?) I did indeed finish it and am tentatively branching out into some more recent history now, but that's a lot more uncertain...
one short story start that made me desperately uncomfortable with the tack I took (probably dead)
GAH, I've had this happen too and have ended up having to abandon things, and it's so frustrating!
I hope things are continuing well!