Three things about writing.
May. 23rd, 2013 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jadesfireThere's been a few writing memes floating around LJ lately, but I like the randomness of this one:
I currently have 123 works posted on AO3. Choose a random number - no peeking! - between 1 (most recently posted/updated) and 123, and I will tell you three things I currently like about that story.
In other news...
I seem to have spent most of my research for my recent stories trying to untangle timelines. For Merlin, I've had to use a spreadsheet to count out days, and ignore the fact that in the show, a journey that takes one set of people 3 days takes another person less than 1 day. My maths is bad, but not *that* bad. I think I've managed to rationalise it now, but still. I really wish the showrunners could count.
Then there's Jack Harkness. I can't use a spreadsheet for him because I keep having to draw wibbly lines across the paper. It's fun, but frustrating, because the Torchwood and Doctor Who timelines don't line up the way I want them to! That is, they line up internally and make their own sort of nonsensical sense, but they don't quite match in the way I'd hoped, which means I have to rethink my plot. Terribly inconsiderate of them. But it's fun thinking about writing Jack again.
And of course:
Word count of the day!
35958 / 70000 words. 51% done!
Past 50%! All downhill from here :)
I currently have 123 works posted on AO3. Choose a random number - no peeking! - between 1 (most recently posted/updated) and 123, and I will tell you three things I currently like about that story.
In other news...
I seem to have spent most of my research for my recent stories trying to untangle timelines. For Merlin, I've had to use a spreadsheet to count out days, and ignore the fact that in the show, a journey that takes one set of people 3 days takes another person less than 1 day. My maths is bad, but not *that* bad. I think I've managed to rationalise it now, but still. I really wish the showrunners could count.
Then there's Jack Harkness. I can't use a spreadsheet for him because I keep having to draw wibbly lines across the paper. It's fun, but frustrating, because the Torchwood and Doctor Who timelines don't line up the way I want them to! That is, they line up internally and make their own sort of nonsensical sense, but they don't quite match in the way I'd hoped, which means I have to rethink my plot. Terribly inconsiderate of them. But it's fun thinking about writing Jack again.
And of course:
Word count of the day!
Past 50%! All downhill from here :)
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Date: 2013-05-23 10:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-05-24 08:51 am (UTC)1. Teyla and Lorne. I ended up writing a couple of stories for them together and loving them.
2. The dryness of the tone. I like writing Teyla with more of a sense of humour than she's usually given.
3. The shift from humour to sorrow and back again. I love doing that sort of tonal shift, and I think it came off really well here.