wraith fic

[lobelia321]

It seems that inbetween football and football and er, more football, I have time and lust to start a fic, a sequel to the as-yet-unfinished wraith/John fic.

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I wrote it all in my head the other day before getting up. Now I've forgotten the exact ending, and the middle bit, too, but I wrote the entire beginning today. I anticipated it to be about 2 pages long but it is 10 pages, ack. And it has a great title; I love the title. And it is weird to be writing a sequel of something that's neither posted nor even finished. It is in a very different style, too. I, on purpose, chose a style I hadn't written in for a few years. It's a bit like the style for Different Tastes -- present tense, unlyrical, blunt -- but I found that different fandoms exert different pressures and that a style that I once used for Dom and Karl automatically twists itself to accommodate Rodney and John. It acquires more pov (Rodney pov) and is slightly less objective. It needs more rambling direct speech (Rodney) that breaks up the sparseness.

Also, the very metaphorical, lyrical, incomplete-sentence style of its prequel, the wraith fic, kept creeping in and I had to go back and correct all the phrases and incomplete sentences and change the metaphorical bits. It's a style that I can write easily enough but that goes against my grain somewhat; I tend to, as they say in German, be 'schwärmerisch': romantic, lyrical, imagery-mad, slightly OTT.

This blunt present-tense, complete-sentence style is the closest I can get to the kind of almost transparent action-plot style of a writer like Cesperanza. But somehow I find it very, very hard to be completely transparent. My words tend to baulk at serving a story; they want to draw attention to themselves. The wraith fic was meant to be an exercise in pure action and straightforward prose but it backfired badly and has ended up being intensely and insanely lyrical, with philosophical musings about the soul...! So much for action and survival on an island. How did I get from 'what are the contents of a tac vest?' to 'Do I have a soul?'

Germany:Poland: exciting game!
England:Trinidad & Tobago: boring at first, but good later but I so wanted T'n'T to win! Still, England did good. :-)

Comments

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

I'm so clever - I only tuned in for about the last 15 minutes of that match. It was nice of them to save up the interesting bits!

Also, I think it is unfair that you can dash off ten pages just like that, when it takes me a week to squeeze one sentence out of my brain!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Honey, it's not unfair because I've had years of squeezing the one sentence out of my brain! Also, I'm saving the squeezing of sentences (or, more accurately, words) for the wraith fic; the non-wraith fic was a vacation so it went faster. :-D

Can I read any of your squeezed sentences? Do they come in a sentence press or a juicer?