Fic babbling
Mar. 14th, 2007 08:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladylarkruneSo I've managed to get rid of the majority of my gremlin one shots as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pareathe calls them. At least the ones on my main computer. The laptop is another story. I still have to figure out what is going on it and what isn't.
However, with those gremlins finished (I relegated a few to - these will never get done ever - and moved on) I can start looking at my chaptered fics.
I finished outlining the next part of "Plotting to Win" (Still hate the title) which is a good thing. Because once I have a solid outline in place I write ever so much faster. I don't have the excuse of not knowing what I am going to do next and most of the time I am just stymied by wording and I can fix it by muddling through it to the next marker and then going back later.
I also took a look at the next chapter of "Journey of Illumination" (really hate that title) that one has me baffled. I've written about 20 pages of story that just aren't good (most of it is me writing and rewriting how I want to open the chapter). I think that I need to go back to my outline and figure out where I went wrong. I may be able to salvage some of what I have written. Part of the problem is that this chapter is really the last chapter that is set up. It gets most of the key players into place and sets up a healthy chunk of the conflict for the first arc of the story. It's just getting the damn thing started. Anybody up to being a sounding board?
For those of you who are interested in how I plot fics - this is an example of how I do it.
Chapter 1 – The Germs of an Idea
Mar 2002 – Graduates from MS – 15 - Written
• Akari graduates from Middle School. Tells Hikaru that she plans on studying go even at High School even if she has to start up her own club. He tells her that he will stop by so long as it doesn’t interfere with his matches as a pro. He walks away and she is left wondering what she is going to do.
• She talks to Kaneko and other go player chick (need to figure out name) that she wishes that she had the drive to succeed like Hikaru did at go. They tell her that she has the same drive. She may not have the innate talent that Shindo has, but she has the love for the game and that if she wanted to, she could go pretty far in the go world. She would just need a teacher and practice. Akari considers this.
• Later, when walking home from the graduation ceremony she runs into Mitani. He tells her that he has been waiting for her. Mitani then asks which high schools she is considering. And she tells him that she wants one that has a good go team so that she can improve her go skills. Mitani asks her if she is thinking about pursuing a career in Go. She says she doesn’t know, but she wants to see if she has any talent at all. Mitani offers to tutor her and she accepts, playing a real game with no handicap to see how far she had improved. She has improved enough that Mitani states that three stone is probably a good handicap
If you look at the first chapter of the fic you can see that it follows the outline pretty closely.
Blargh. Now that I have some time to write, I want to make sure that I am actually being productive. I am going to see if I can either get a chunk of the next part "Plotting to Win" done or maybe revise my outline for Journey so that I can get unblocked.
pareathe calls them. At least the ones on my main computer. The laptop is another story. I still have to figure out what is going on it and what isn't. However, with those gremlins finished (I relegated a few to - these will never get done ever - and moved on) I can start looking at my chaptered fics.
I finished outlining the next part of "Plotting to Win" (Still hate the title) which is a good thing. Because once I have a solid outline in place I write ever so much faster. I don't have the excuse of not knowing what I am going to do next and most of the time I am just stymied by wording and I can fix it by muddling through it to the next marker and then going back later.
I also took a look at the next chapter of "Journey of Illumination" (really hate that title) that one has me baffled. I've written about 20 pages of story that just aren't good (most of it is me writing and rewriting how I want to open the chapter). I think that I need to go back to my outline and figure out where I went wrong. I may be able to salvage some of what I have written. Part of the problem is that this chapter is really the last chapter that is set up. It gets most of the key players into place and sets up a healthy chunk of the conflict for the first arc of the story. It's just getting the damn thing started. Anybody up to being a sounding board?
For those of you who are interested in how I plot fics - this is an example of how I do it.
Chapter 1 – The Germs of an Idea
Mar 2002 – Graduates from MS – 15 - Written
• Akari graduates from Middle School. Tells Hikaru that she plans on studying go even at High School even if she has to start up her own club. He tells her that he will stop by so long as it doesn’t interfere with his matches as a pro. He walks away and she is left wondering what she is going to do.
• She talks to Kaneko and other go player chick (need to figure out name) that she wishes that she had the drive to succeed like Hikaru did at go. They tell her that she has the same drive. She may not have the innate talent that Shindo has, but she has the love for the game and that if she wanted to, she could go pretty far in the go world. She would just need a teacher and practice. Akari considers this.
• Later, when walking home from the graduation ceremony she runs into Mitani. He tells her that he has been waiting for her. Mitani then asks which high schools she is considering. And she tells him that she wants one that has a good go team so that she can improve her go skills. Mitani asks her if she is thinking about pursuing a career in Go. She says she doesn’t know, but she wants to see if she has any talent at all. Mitani offers to tutor her and she accepts, playing a real game with no handicap to see how far she had improved. She has improved enough that Mitani states that three stone is probably a good handicap
If you look at the first chapter of the fic you can see that it follows the outline pretty closely.
Blargh. Now that I have some time to write, I want to make sure that I am actually being productive. I am going to see if I can either get a chunk of the next part "Plotting to Win" done or maybe revise my outline for Journey so that I can get unblocked.
