so i guess this is one of those things i won't be shutting up about until it's done

[thene]

I managed to work on d. today, but that was pretty much all I managed to do, and it was a stop-start flow that was fine sometimes and then I'd spend ages tweaking one paragraph just to try to fit the idea in my head into the text. I found I was paring down more than usual, dialogue especially - typing out what I wanted to and then cutting out half of it. It is still a terrible piece of rambly crap (the narrator becomes delirious at one point I think because it was the best excuse he could come up with for not shutting the fuck up), and all four main characters appear to be gigantic Sues. I think there's some MGS2 meta in here lolwat. And sometime this afternoon one of the main premises veered off chasing a shiny mental image and ended up facing the opposite way to how I'd thought it would, but I think it knows what it's doing better than I do because god knows I have no freaking idea.

Weird textual evasiveness; what I wrote today was a mental ramble back to something that happened several years before the rest of the story, and it involved the narrator conversing with another character, but only the other character has any dialogue. Idk, I blame The Perpetual Train for making me feel like I can get away with weirdass presentation and still call it readable. Keep mentally reiterating that only one other person is ever going to see this so I don't care how far off the rails it gets.

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[raletha]

I am having dreadful concentration issues this week, so I know if I tried writing anything it would end up all...look a horse!

I really appreciate fanfiction with more experiemental structure, though. It sounds like you're crafting something pretty neat. And, btw, where do you post your fanfic? Not that I know the first thing about Metal Gear... :-/

You keep reminding me to give China Miéville's stuff a higher priority in my book queue.

[thene]

My sympathies re. lack of concentration. It happens too easily and then all you can do is wait til you get a really good plot bunny to focus on. :(

Writing is either feast or famine for me - most of this year I've not written much at all, but right now I'm on a roll, even scribbling bad OF at work, just to keep my brain going. This cannot possibly last so I'll try to enjoy it while it does ;_;

:D I dabble in a few different fandoms (d. is a godawful Inception fusion idea) and post fic all over the place but if I remember to post it, new stuff ends up at http://archiveofourown.org/users/Thene ...which I need to update, crap. *adds a couple of recent crimes against fandom* Old stuff is on the pit, but I don't put porn there any more as I got an upload ban once in 2002: http://fanfiction.net/~athenemiranda Are you on AO3 yet? I have invites if you want one!

DEAR GOD YES CHINA MIEVILLE. The Perpetual Train (which is part of Iron Council) is one of those books that I think is of genuine and lasting importance to the entire human race. Last week an IRL acquaintance asked me what it was about, and because I live in the South I had to dance around the answer, which is 'it's steampunk about gay Marxist revolutionaries.' IMO The Scar is a better book but it's about exiles, the unknown and the unknowable, so it's hard to describe other than as 'librarians. pirates. vampires. S&M.'

[raletha]

I have bookmarked your archive! Thanks for that; I am intrigued by the Bruce/Tony fic so will have to sit down for some fic reading soon. :)

It's funny you should offer an invite, I had just stuck myself in the queue the day before. I got my account sorted tonight. I took the time to read the whole TOS and was very impressed with it. I especially like the idea of orphaned works. I wonder how many excellent but retired fanfiction authors would have left their work among us if they had had such an option.

I recall the last (and first) time I picked up China Miéville, I was not concentrating well enough to get very far. I also think I maybe started in the wrong place with The Iron Council. Should I be reading Perdido Street Station first? Or does it matter?

[thene]

Oh lol. I wrote the Bruce/Tony fic on marvel_kink, in five comments over the course of about a day and a half, and it is pure fannish id - mine and other people's because I kept incorporating suggestions from Anon. It's good to see you over at AO3 and I hope you archive more fics there sometime (formatting is such a pain, blargh).

hmm, I'm not sure how to answer that one because I read Perdido Street Station first, and it's lovely but it starts awfully slow. I'd be inclined to recommend The Scar as a starting point because it's better, shorter, and gets interesting faster than PSS (though PSS is wonderful and I couldn't put it down once I'd got about ~400 pages in) and doesn't rely on PSS as much as Iron Council does.