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So, I didn't get very far with my 2015-2016 Ladies Bingo Card mostly because I don't think "oh, I should write a story about this prompt".
I tend to think "this would be a cool concept" and then I try to make it work.
Like the story I'm labelling 'Carter's Eleven', although I'm thinking it will end up titled as "Alexander Pierce’s No Good Very Very Very Extremely Bad Day". And the blurb is more or less "Peggy Carter may be old, but she's not done yet. She's up against Alexander Pierce, charming, powerful, and merciless – can she and her handpicked group of women bring down HYDRA – from the inside?"
The problem here is mostly POV choices. The Ocean's Eleven con depends on the audience not being aware of how the long game is being run beyond the original con. It's the same principle as Leverage - we see things going wrong, but they're not really going wrong, they're going right.
This is certainly easier in a visual medium than textual one, although I have no doubt that it can be cleverly done in text. I just doubt that I have the skill to do it that way - and the time.
This story is a PH for an exchange; it doesn't need to be longer than 1000 words, and, yeah, this is looking at least a couple of thousand, perhaps. And a lot of that is bringing out where the world diverges from canon.
*pokes at it listlessly*
I have a plot for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
iddyiddybangbang and it is ALL ID. ALL OF IT. I just have to write it in two weeks. After I write this PH.
I am seriously contemplating going home at lunch. Because the system I need to use here at work is down (has been for the last few days) and I could be using my time more usefully than I'm doing here...
I tend to think "this would be a cool concept" and then I try to make it work.
Like the story I'm labelling 'Carter's Eleven', although I'm thinking it will end up titled as "Alexander Pierce’s No Good Very Very Very Extremely Bad Day". And the blurb is more or less "Peggy Carter may be old, but she's not done yet. She's up against Alexander Pierce, charming, powerful, and merciless – can she and her handpicked group of women bring down HYDRA – from the inside?"
The problem here is mostly POV choices. The Ocean's Eleven con depends on the audience not being aware of how the long game is being run beyond the original con. It's the same principle as Leverage - we see things going wrong, but they're not really going wrong, they're going right.
This is certainly easier in a visual medium than textual one, although I have no doubt that it can be cleverly done in text. I just doubt that I have the skill to do it that way - and the time.
This story is a PH for an exchange; it doesn't need to be longer than 1000 words, and, yeah, this is looking at least a couple of thousand, perhaps. And a lot of that is bringing out where the world diverges from canon.
*pokes at it listlessly*
I have a plot for
iddyiddybangbang and it is ALL ID. ALL OF IT. I just have to write it in two weeks. After I write this PH.I am seriously contemplating going home at lunch. Because the system I need to use here at work is down (has been for the last few days) and I could be using my time more usefully than I'm doing here...
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