Well, great. 5500 words and still going (at least I have a vague idea of how to end it, which is great because I fucking suck at endings and I have way too many partial works sitting on various hard drives where the characters wouldn't shut up for 35K words and then just stopped talking and I didn't know where to go next, so it would be lovely to write something with a beginning, middle and END just once before I die), and I blame Dana.
Anya: It's lovely! I wish it was mine! Oh like you weren't all thinking the same thing. Giles: I'm fairly certain I wasn't.
'The Killer In Me'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
JZ - Apr 16, 2022 12:30:50 pm PDT #10290 of 10431
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Consuela - Apr 16, 2022 1:55:02 pm PDT #10291 of 10431
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Go forward and write! Write what your heart wants, and it's likely to strike a chord with someone regardless.
As for endings, many years ago Nutty gave me some wise words: for a lot of stories, you can just have someone say, "OK, let's go," and then they go, the end. Possibly not the most poetic ending, but sometimes you just gotta give yourself permission to stop.
JZ - Apr 16, 2022 2:18:47 pm PDT #10292 of 10431
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
As for endings, many years ago Nutty gave me some wise words: for a lot of stories, you can just have someone say, "OK, let's go," and then they go, the end. Possibly not the most poetic ending, but sometimes you just gotta give yourself permission to stop.
Mostly, yeah, and definitely for fanfic, but my unfinished stuff is all proper novels and screenplays, and those feel like they really need an actual nice clean definitive shape and all the stuff I'd set in motion needs to be resolved.
Steph L. - Apr 16, 2022 3:23:29 pm PDT #10293 of 10431
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
As a voracious fanfic reader, I have never ever read a fic where I thought "Oh, this is longer than originally planned? That blows!" A fic that's longer than planned is like finding a $20 in your coat pocket.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 16, 2022 3:28:47 pm PDT #10294 of 10431
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I would agree with Steph.
Kate P. - Apr 16, 2022 4:20:22 pm PDT #10295 of 10431
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
A fic that's longer than planned is like finding a $20 in your coat pocket.
Ha! Absolutely true.
JZ, I'm super excited that you're writing fic! If you want a beta at some point, I'd gladly volunteer. I assume this is for OFMD?
Beverly - Apr 16, 2022 4:45:50 pm PDT #10296 of 10431
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
In my (not so) copious finished pieces there are two where I didn't recognize the ending and just kept going, until I took a breath and went, "Wait--" turned around and looked back, and the story had finished. Back there. Sometimes that can happen too.
JZ - Apr 16, 2022 5:42:10 pm PDT #10297 of 10431
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
If you want a beta at some point, I'd gladly volunteer.
I'd love that! I think it may be done fairly soon.
I assume this is for OFMD?
Yep. The completely G-rated childhood backstory Pushing Daisies crossover I described in the other thread.
askye - Apr 17, 2022 2:00:27 pm PDT #10298 of 10431
Thrive to spite them
As a voracious fanfic reader, I have never ever read a fic where I thought "Oh, this is longer than originally planned? That blows!"
I agree. Although I have gotten to the end of something and thought "what? That's it? So soon??"
JZ - Apr 18, 2022 11:14:23 am PDT #10299 of 10431
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Done, at almost 12.5K words. I literally don't think I have completed any work of fiction in any form, with a nice distinct beginning, middle and end, in a quarter century. Hec very kindly let me spend the entire weekend deep in my own head, but now that I'm out again I feel a little wobbly.