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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[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.