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jedi_of_urth) wrote2009-07-28 04:27 am
jedi_of_urth) wrote2009-07-28 04:27 am
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Can not sleep...
...muses won't let me. The muses have been in overdrive but apparently their version os rest involved backing into the usual territory of reminding me how much more I need to think about before I can attack certain sections of the story. This is not restful enough for my sleep but they also refuse to give me any more thought on the actual writing side even though I'm up.
FYI, I wrote more that 13,500 words *today* (well technically it was yesterday but since I haven't slept it feels like it's the same day). In one day I basically doubled my writing for the past six weeks of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
bigbanghood and it's all in medieval soup opera territory with little plot to be seen (a little sneaked in but now I have no idea how to get it back in focus). If I could write like that regularly, I'd have no worries about NaNoWriMo because I'd need like a week and of course no one would care about the lack of plot there (not that it's too much of a deterrent in fanfic always either I admit. Spending huge amounts of time on Guy's tortured backstory is kind of the point of the story after all.)
It it weren't spread over two stories I'd almost have myself a 30k story as is, now I need to get one and preferably both of them back on track to to tell the full story, in admittedly probably a more than 30k words each (and on one of them, but unfortunately not the one I worked on today) I'd already intended it to be part of a series, but even the one part I thought I do for BBH is looking like it's going to be longer than I intended.
I do have some modly stuff I'm reminded I need to do for the comm, but maybe the muses will late me sleep now that I've bragged about them to the world (of at least my corner of the interwebs).
Any complete nonsensical aspects of this post should in no way be taken as a reflection on my actual writing ability, but should be blamed on the muses for not letting me rest when I wanted to.
FYI, I wrote more that 13,500 words *today* (well technically it was yesterday but since I haven't slept it feels like it's the same day). In one day I basically doubled my writing for the past six weeks of
bigbanghood and it's all in medieval soup opera territory with little plot to be seen (a little sneaked in but now I have no idea how to get it back in focus). If I could write like that regularly, I'd have no worries about NaNoWriMo because I'd need like a week and of course no one would care about the lack of plot there (not that it's too much of a deterrent in fanfic always either I admit. Spending huge amounts of time on Guy's tortured backstory is kind of the point of the story after all.)It it weren't spread over two stories I'd almost have myself a 30k story as is, now I need to get one and preferably both of them back on track to to tell the full story, in admittedly probably a more than 30k words each (and on one of them, but unfortunately not the one I worked on today) I'd already intended it to be part of a series, but even the one part I thought I do for BBH is looking like it's going to be longer than I intended.
I do have some modly stuff I'm reminded I need to do for the comm, but maybe the muses will late me sleep now that I've bragged about them to the world (of at least my corner of the interwebs).
Any complete nonsensical aspects of this post should in no way be taken as a reflection on my actual writing ability, but should be blamed on the muses for not letting me rest when I wanted to.
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LOL. You're so funny, I kept visualizing a compass whirling around and around and... and I AGREE with you re: THE DOCTOR. He was very much THE LONELY GOD that season. Guy DOES occasionally do something NON-Marian related that still suggests something going on. Ex. 2x3. Sherry told him to off the kids. He could/ would not. No Marian around. (Though perhaps he knew how she'd react if she heard...So she's his "North?")
***Actually...if I can find wiggle room in what I remember of whether Guy left Seth there or not, I think it suddenly becomes a lot easier to work with.....Actually come to think of it it's not unreasonable that he didn't, because as I recall Seth was still warm as if he hadn't been there too long, but Guy had been back in Locksley so as to chase after the Outlaws when they stole the horses, so there probably is wiggle room to be found.***
Exactly what I was wondering...Everyone always trots this out as evidence of guys total wickedness, but was it really? No angel, to be sure, BUT....Seth is warm, Guy is behind the soldiers, then rides into the forest, is smacked by a small branch (poor Richard), and (still) smirks into uncharacteristically bright lights in mid-forest. Cut to opening credits.
***I will probably need to start rewatching things as I get up to show time, for quotes, to make sure I remember the plots correctly as in what order Guy knew and did what. But making sure to watch it from his perspective this time and not just a fan looking for reasons to forgive him like I did last time.
Yes! I did that with 3x10,11,12,13 (parts thereof) just to make sure I was on track with the Gizzies, re: the little things - eye movements, etc. (And, let it be said yet again, while rewatching - Malcolm is a total and utter prick! But there you go...We all got that on the FIRST go-round, I'm sure.
Good Luck! Can't wait to read! (Enjoy the icecream.;-)
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Plus he was still in 'Marian grrrr" mode in 2x03 but yeah. He compass may be drifty, but the point of a drifty compass here is that his morality has no set direction, sometimes it points northerly just by chance (but yeah, I think there are some lines even Guy thinks he won't cross, even though Vasey delights in proving that he totally will because until he does his corruption of Guy is incomplete).
All of 1x04 is kind of an OOC mess. Guy's no saint to be sure, but with his later portrayal as a hopeless romantic in desperate search of family and connection, to the point where *because* of that need he does horrible things and lash out when he loses them, 'Parenthood' really stands out as not fitting that with the usual implications/interpretations. If he had say packed Annie off as soon as he found out she was pregnant and never told her to contact him again, that's still cold-hearted and the good guys could have still found it dishonorable, but also could have been in character. Leaving his own infant child to die in the forest? Pretty much in contrast to 90% of Guy's characterization.
And really, if he'd left the kid there to die and didn't want anyone to ever find out...smirking when Robin rode away with the baby was probably also not the most in character response either. If he'd really intended the kid to die he'd have been worried for his reputation with Robin getting his hands on the kid. That's the problem with writing about the ep, as soon as I get one factor to fit(ish) I realize something else doesn't, which all the more proves that for it to make sense something else is going to have to be involved in the story.
Plus, the more I think about this, the more I think there's also some interesting possibilities in pathos for him not realizing that the kid Robin is carting around is Seth all while smirking that 'haha, Hood has to watch a baby.'
Oh course by late s3 I was already more or less watching the show from Guy's POV, especially in 3x10 which boiled down to 'Guy's an emo teenager, and he's not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, and that never changes, but damn he got a raw deal. Also the Locksley males are assholes." But I still definitely need to rewatch it because some of the details are fuzzy and it's kind of important to get that section of his life right when I write it.