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Nov. 10th, 2009 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sherryillkSo after I totally caffeinated myself, I became totally awake with no desires to throw up and no headache. Yay!
And I'm at 21,756 words! Double yay!
I'm surprised I'm doing as well as I'm doing actually... A lot of it is probably crap but it's going which is a good thing in my mind.
My one problem is that so far, it's been sorta Draco-less despite it being a story about Harry AND Draco. But it's in Harry's POV exclusively and I'm pretty proud at myself for sticking to it despite the fact that I typically write better in Draco's POV and the fact that I've never stuck to one POV before. It's limiting but I'll feel more of a failure as a writer if I couldn't make one POV work. It's been done and personally, I think it shows the higher caliber of a writer when it's done well. And like my creative writing teacher said, the only way you get better at something is by practicing it and writing is definitely a skill that can be worked at. My problem is trying to make it just as satisfying when I have a whole other side that is completely unknown that's not really being told.
And I feel like I'm writing a mystery more than I am a romance. And mysteries take so much thought and preparation. I know I'm not supposed to go back and change things but I find myself having to put in more back story and to set up elements that I think of later in previous parts so it ties together. And I haven't figured it out yet. Fail. I feel like I would have more time to plan this through if I weren't trying to write almost 2,000 words each day but then again it'll probably stall if I had all the time in the world to work at it. It's all very ironic... My general ideas are quickly proving to be too general. I have a crime-ish, a motive-ish, and a large picture-ish right now. And all the -ishes going to show in my writing so I spend a lot of my time not writing, thinking about specifics. I've even started dreaming about it -- not that it helps because I forget everything as soon as I wake. *sigh*
Rewriting this is going to be a bitch. Hopefully when it ends, I'll have more of a clue. Right now I'm scheming ways of getting Harry and Draco together. Draco is nursing hurt feelings and doesn't quite want to see Harry (though he really, really does because he can't quite help it) and Harry is pissed off at Draco and wants nothing to do with him ever. But I know that will fly out the door as soon as he sees him (if only in the back of his mind influencing his subconscious decisions).
One of these days I'm going to write a story involving the two of them where they just click and have instant attraction that overrides all their past hate. It'll be my one cop-out fic and it'll be nice working with characters who are actively fighting against having a relationship. They'll be coy and teasing and it'll be fluffy and the only angst will be flangst and I'll probably hate myself after I'm done but then I'll remember this story and I'll remember how bad it could be when you're trying to write a romance where neither character wants it. And both are determined not to let it happen.
And I'm at 21,756 words! Double yay!
I'm surprised I'm doing as well as I'm doing actually... A lot of it is probably crap but it's going which is a good thing in my mind.
My one problem is that so far, it's been sorta Draco-less despite it being a story about Harry AND Draco. But it's in Harry's POV exclusively and I'm pretty proud at myself for sticking to it despite the fact that I typically write better in Draco's POV and the fact that I've never stuck to one POV before. It's limiting but I'll feel more of a failure as a writer if I couldn't make one POV work. It's been done and personally, I think it shows the higher caliber of a writer when it's done well. And like my creative writing teacher said, the only way you get better at something is by practicing it and writing is definitely a skill that can be worked at. My problem is trying to make it just as satisfying when I have a whole other side that is completely unknown that's not really being told.
And I feel like I'm writing a mystery more than I am a romance. And mysteries take so much thought and preparation. I know I'm not supposed to go back and change things but I find myself having to put in more back story and to set up elements that I think of later in previous parts so it ties together. And I haven't figured it out yet. Fail. I feel like I would have more time to plan this through if I weren't trying to write almost 2,000 words each day but then again it'll probably stall if I had all the time in the world to work at it. It's all very ironic... My general ideas are quickly proving to be too general. I have a crime-ish, a motive-ish, and a large picture-ish right now. And all the -ishes going to show in my writing so I spend a lot of my time not writing, thinking about specifics. I've even started dreaming about it -- not that it helps because I forget everything as soon as I wake. *sigh*
Rewriting this is going to be a bitch. Hopefully when it ends, I'll have more of a clue. Right now I'm scheming ways of getting Harry and Draco together. Draco is nursing hurt feelings and doesn't quite want to see Harry (though he really, really does because he can't quite help it) and Harry is pissed off at Draco and wants nothing to do with him ever. But I know that will fly out the door as soon as he sees him (if only in the back of his mind influencing his subconscious decisions).
One of these days I'm going to write a story involving the two of them where they just click and have instant attraction that overrides all their past hate. It'll be my one cop-out fic and it'll be nice working with characters who are actively fighting against having a relationship. They'll be coy and teasing and it'll be fluffy and the only angst will be flangst and I'll probably hate myself after I'm done but then I'll remember this story and I'll remember how bad it could be when you're trying to write a romance where neither character wants it. And both are determined not to let it happen.