Fanfiction: There is no end to the making of revisions

[nebroadwe]

Everybody else has NaNo; I've got "In My End Is My Beginning":

2,132 / 10,000 (21.3%)

I'm upping the potential final word count to ten thousand, partly because it's a nice, round number; partly because I'd love to have something that long up at FF.net to draw in more readers; and partly because the rewritten bit is already 355 words longer than it was in the original and I've got my eye on three other sections that will require beefing up on a similar scale. Argh. But Winry's internal monologue is flowing more smoothly now that I've figured out what's bothering her in relation to what's bothering Ed, so the opening isn't just all about plot exposition. ("It has to go somewhere!") I still want a better title, but maybe one will pop up later.

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[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, I have a perfect scene in my head - that's actually been in my head for a while now - involving a Ed and Winry and Garfield and a lightning storm, but I have no plot to go with the scene. Sometimes you can't win.

Sometimes I write that sort of thing up as "Sketch: [Whatever]" (like the afterstory for Lieutenant Ji that jumped me this morning on the way to work, insisting that he survived the battle at the North Pole but got transferred into a Somme-like standoff down in the Earth Kingdom thereafter, and just manages to hang on long enough to see the change of regime, which exists solely because I liked Ji and think he deserves closure, not because I actually have anything to say about him. Yet. Gotta finish my Ozai-in-prison drabbles first).

[artemisrae.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I write that sort of thing up as "Sketch: [Whatever]"

...DUH.

Now we just need to see if the punchline works a a punchline and not just as a moment in a longer fic.

(...Hey, you're not trying to get me to talk you out of writing Avatar fic, are you?)

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Now we just need to see if the punchline works a a punchline and not just as a moment in a longer fic.

[crosses fingers, because there needs to be more good stories featuring Garfiel]

(...Hey, you're not trying to get me to talk you out of writing Avatar fic, are you?)

I don't think you could. Crazy Ozai drabble sequence, coming right up ...