Original fic: Week Six
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1_million_wordsWe are just a week off finishing this challenge! How are you doing with your fic?
I have actually made some progress on editing an old fic, so that's something! I haven't managed to write anything new or add to anything, but my editing has been progress, even if I have taken away words! Woot! Yes, I realised I needed to go through the original story if I was to make sense of where I was with the sequel, and so I have been spending a bit of time re-reading and cutting out badly written and/or unnecessary bits in that original. I also managed to sort out that list of example chapters I showed you last week, and now have just one tidy document called Chapters 1-5, which is as far as I got with it way back. I decided to make the best of where I was at and continue to edit the old fic to see where that gets me. Can't say I've got far, as I've only looked as far as the first 15 (of 71) chapters, and that did include going over some I'd already edited, so there's heaps more to do, but I guess there's no reason I can't keep working on them even after this challenge is over!
Here are a last couple of prompts for you should you need them:
1. My drug dealer got arrested.
2. Party late into the night.
Now, discussions: do you agree with the suggestion you should write what you know? And if so, do you think it includes things you have no personal knowledge of, but that you have read about and/or seen in movies/TV and/or in real life A LOT, so you feel that you know much about them, apart from personally?
My example here is the fic I am working on. It features a lot of things that I don't have any personal experience of: American teenage life, boys in love, American football, to name a few! It is set in the 1980s, which I personally lived through as a young adult, so there's that, but the rest of it is something I can only say I know from a distance. I have my doubts about how well I 'get' it, but I have a huge set of reference and research background on it from what I have read about, seen, and talked with others on the subject, so I hope I do it justice. I have a lot of passion for the project, so although I may not have the personal knowledge, I like to hope my desire to get it 'right' can overcome that.
Now, go forth and get those last goals for this challenge in before the week is over!
I have actually made some progress on editing an old fic, so that's something! I haven't managed to write anything new or add to anything, but my editing has been progress, even if I have taken away words! Woot! Yes, I realised I needed to go through the original story if I was to make sense of where I was with the sequel, and so I have been spending a bit of time re-reading and cutting out badly written and/or unnecessary bits in that original. I also managed to sort out that list of example chapters I showed you last week, and now have just one tidy document called Chapters 1-5, which is as far as I got with it way back. I decided to make the best of where I was at and continue to edit the old fic to see where that gets me. Can't say I've got far, as I've only looked as far as the first 15 (of 71) chapters, and that did include going over some I'd already edited, so there's heaps more to do, but I guess there's no reason I can't keep working on them even after this challenge is over!
Here are a last couple of prompts for you should you need them:
1. My drug dealer got arrested.
2. Party late into the night.
Now, discussions: do you agree with the suggestion you should write what you know? And if so, do you think it includes things you have no personal knowledge of, but that you have read about and/or seen in movies/TV and/or in real life A LOT, so you feel that you know much about them, apart from personally?
My example here is the fic I am working on. It features a lot of things that I don't have any personal experience of: American teenage life, boys in love, American football, to name a few! It is set in the 1980s, which I personally lived through as a young adult, so there's that, but the rest of it is something I can only say I know from a distance. I have my doubts about how well I 'get' it, but I have a huge set of reference and research background on it from what I have read about, seen, and talked with others on the subject, so I hope I do it justice. I have a lot of passion for the project, so although I may not have the personal knowledge, I like to hope my desire to get it 'right' can overcome that.
Now, go forth and get those last goals for this challenge in before the week is over!
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Date: 2024-04-16 05:50 am (UTC)Thanks! Absolutely! From this distance, I can totally see my growth as a writer since then, and more objectively see where extraneous matter sits.
That does make sense! ;-)
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Date: 2024-04-16 07:09 pm (UTC):)