Here I go, lurking like a Cullen on your livejournal, ha ha. No, actually, I just remembered liking your fic, and decided to see if you had posted anything about its progress. I really do envy your ability to finish it before posting. I'm okay at doing that with original work (and I almost never finish that), but to me, fanfiction involves a certain amount of instant gratification. In this way, I suppose it requires a bit more discipline, because then I have to decide what I want up front and then just make it work--no going back and fixing large structural problems after, so you have to get it right the first time.
Anyway, I only really meant to comment to say that I agree with what you said about "plot bunnies running away from you." I have always thought that notion was mostly ridiculous. "Mostly," because if you are having a great deal of trouble trying to force your story to go in a certain direction, and it just won't, nine times out of ten that points to a larger problem in the plot or characterization that you haven't fixed. I say all this, and still have a Tolkien fic in progress that only has the barest hints of an outlined plot. I tell myself this is because it is "character based," but really I'm just being lazy. Oh well.
Best luck to you! I hope you finish the next story soon.
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Date: 2009-08-12 04:39 pm (UTC)Anyway, I only really meant to comment to say that I agree with what you said about "plot bunnies running away from you." I have always thought that notion was mostly ridiculous. "Mostly," because if you are having a great deal of trouble trying to force your story to go in a certain direction, and it just won't, nine times out of ten that points to a larger problem in the plot or characterization that you haven't fixed. I say all this, and still have a Tolkien fic in progress that only has the barest hints of an outlined plot. I tell myself this is because it is "character based," but really I'm just being lazy. Oh well.
Best luck to you! I hope you finish the next story soon.