tired and writing

[tielan]

But that's because I woke up at 2:30am and then read a book until 5:30 and doomscrolled until 6:30. Then had a nap.

But it's lunchtime now, I have (mostly) survived the morning after a long weekend ("King's Birthday" long weekend), and I think I might end up skipping hockey training tonight because my knee has been feeling a bit weird the last couple of weeks and maybe I should go to the physio and get it checked out?

IDK. Maybe see how it holds up this weekend? We're already down one player that we're probably going to need...

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I think I'm going to sign up for iddyiddybangbang because I have a lot of exceedingly iddish stories that aren't going to get finished otherwise. I don't know if the creativity will come back, but I figure I should at least give it a go...

Now, the question of which story. Unfortunately most of the stories that I feel I want to finish and the ones that are half-done already. (Is the WIP Big Bang running this year? Anyone know?)

I know that I won't get many readers, I know that it's going to be something that not many people are going to read. I just want to get a few ideas out there.

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Finished my 'the women sort out the MCU Civil War' fic.

The Civilian Peace (7073 words) by tielan
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Helen Cho & Jane Foster & Maria Hill & Pepper Potts
Characters: Helen Cho, Pepper Potts, Maria Hill, Jane Foster, Okoye (Marvel), T'Challa (Marvel), Avengers Team Members (Marvel), James "Bucky" Barnes
Additional Tags: Not Canon Compliant with Movie: Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Summary: What does it mean to be human, anyway?

Have a plan for the Psy-Changeling universe, it's gotten a little more complex.

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Editing on the novel is going slowly; I just feel like it's boring and terrible and ugh. Which it might very well be. Are more dramatic things needed at this point? IDEK.

Writing on the new story is going to need at least one screen, preferably two. And a lot of editing. More ugh.

Comments

[beatrice_otter]

Here's hoping you get the creative juices flowing!

[tielan]

Thank you! Definitely hoping!

[kore]

Finished my 'the women sort out the MCU Civil War' fic.

EEEEEEE

[tielan]

It took so long to quite work out how it was going to end, and all the thoughts and angles and aspects of it.

*sigh* So much wasted opportunity. I shall forever mourn.

[hiddencait]

Remember, it's probably boring to you because you've reading umpteenthousand times by now along with living with the story in your head. It's no longer surprising to YOU, but it's probably still surprising and exciting to readers. I've read enough of your words by this point to know you can definitely draw in a reader like crazy.

If you really are worried there aren't enough "events" in the plot though, maybe take a look at something like Save the Cat or Story Genius and see if it flows from an outline perspective? I can't ever outline prior to drafting, but after I draft, I can usually reverse outline and see the patterns in things like word count per chapter and where the big events are happening during the story. Hope it helps?

[tielan]

Heh. Thank you for the kick in the pants.

I've worked out some more motivations. Now I just have to rewrite the relevant scenes.

Ugh. Rewrites. I'm so bad at rewrites.