Personal Note: More Progress

[nebroadwe]

Draft 1 of my Ed/Winry "Fire and Ice" Challenge 'fic is complete. It's even got a title -- not a title I like very much, but at this point I'm not balking at anything the Muses see fit to throw my way. The story is longer than I thought it would be at first, but shorter than I thought it would be back at the beginning of the week (and likely to become shorter yet as I weed out irrelevant verbiage). I think the EdWin parts work: my offline beta, who's more of a romance reader than I am, didn't throw back her head and laugh when I ran the idea and some of the lines past her, anyway. The situation may be clichéd, but I believe I've at least managed to ensure that the language isn't. (Though, given humanity's preoccupation with the marriage of true minds, not to mention constructive horizontal business, very few words remain that better artists than I have not applied to these phenomena. Anxiety of influence, anyone?) The strangest thing about the process so far was having my characters gently but firmly push the end of the story in a direction completely different from the one I had planned. I'm used to not knowing the ending and having it materialize during writing or to having embryonic thoughts that gestate into workable endings during incubation, but character revolts are new to me. (Winry led it, so it was a friendly and eminently logical revolution, thank goodness. I shudder to think what would happen if Ed ever decided to run off with one my plots.)

Now I shall leave the text to ferment a while before bottling it for submission. And get on to the next thing(s) in need of attention ...

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

The whole of Marking Time that I've posted so far is what happens when Ed runs off with a plot. Really. If Winry had been in charge, I could've started it with chapter...thirty. Yeah.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Too frigging detail-oriented and logical, if you ask me.

It makes for a better story. - Ed

Don't forget stubborn.

Hmmm, tempted by Zombie Apocalypse. Hmmm. Only if I could do a crossover with BtVS or AtS...which, mind you, has been percolating in my brain since, er, December 2005....