Admitting it

[jedi_of_urth]

So...I think it's finally happened, Robin Hood has eaten my brain so much that I now care about it more than the Doctor Who verse. All week I've been writing my bigbanghood fics in the evening instead of watching Torchwood, even though I hear it's been really good. I'm really glad TW is good, and I do want to watch it, and in fact I'd probably react entirely different if it wasn't a matter of 'well I can wait until they're all out and watch them then.'


It's been so long since I wrote anything that it's really nice to be writing big fics again. But I've realized something that I probably had realized before, but my thinking in epics actually seems a hindrance to actually writing plot. Not that a story *has* to get straight to the plot and I'm not so far into it that it's going to be a problem that nothing has actually happened yet, but I keep thinking I need to add more and more stuff before I get to the plot stuff.

Also, I think I need to rewatch the last few episodes of season 2 since my main story goes AU before the infamous end of 2x13. But since I'm still kind of reeling from the RH series finale (which you may have noticed I still haven't done my review of, maybe I need to go get some of it out on Cori's and then get back to my own...or just keep writing fic) I'm having trouble doing things like remembering why I spent so much time angry with Robin in season 2. Fortunately he's not really part of the story just yet, but eventually I'll need to recapture s2 Robin instead of it being my finale emo retroactively whitewashing him.

Also, it turns out Vasey is really hard to write. I'm not even talking about from his POV, I just find his...presence really hard to capture.

Comments

[beabuthers.livejournal.com]

I find Robin really hard to write, just because he's not my favorite. I keep wanting to gloss over the boring bits and write the fun stuff, so it's all mirth and no matter... *sigh*

I also keep thinking i need to add more and more stuff - i either want to move so slowly nothing ever happens or dive right into the action and have no real character development, reasoning, or rationale behind their wacked out actions. I have to edit... a lot. lol

[jedi_of_urth]

Part of it is I'm still sort of plotting for what Robin's role in the story is going to be at that eventual point where he rejoins the story, I have a *lot* of things set to happened before they meet back up with Robin. But I have a hard time with Robin because...well I just have a hard time getting into his head. It doesn't help that Robin and I finally parted on good terms but (for justifiable reasons) he's going to be a total jackass when he finally shows up.

i either want to move so slowly nothing ever happens or dive right into the action and have no real character development, reasoning, or rationale behind their wacked out actions

Yeah, I could ship ahead to the G/M sexy times of the story, I could even skip the scene laying stuff I've got going on right now, if I was willing to forgo a lot the way I think about stories, which is where everything has to be set up before anything actually happens. But you know that old saying that battle never survives contact with the enemy? That's me and plot, as much as I try and have it all mapped out ahead of time as the plot actually develops it never goes like I expect...but I keep writing set up stuff so and keep expecting the plot to attack.

[cherish4.livejournal.com]

I'm still kind of reeling from the RH series finale (which you may have noticed I still haven't done my review of..

Yes I haven't been able to do a review of it either, partly because I haven't been able to bring myself to watch it again yet, it's too emotional for me.

[jedi_of_urth]

I normally don't have to rewatch for my reaction posts, but at this stage I'm going to have to before my review has any coherence and I do want to do justice to that episode since it pretty effectively broke me. And I got enough of making myself relive it when I was vidding about it.

[cherish4.livejournal.com]

it pretty effectively broke me.

I hear ya!