fic talk: remodeling
Aug. 9th, 2019 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sword_logicit's a little funny just how much my plan/outline can change in just under a week. i'm not sure what to think of it, except that i was going through my doc full of fragments looking for something in particular when i realized... i'm going to have to toss so much of this because of what i've changed. and here i'd been thinking, "oh, how nice, i've got so much of part iii written!"
it's frustrating, but at the same time, it's really incredibly liberating. hey! things change! that's how it is. plans can be fluid. i still have the major beats i want to hit, but the way i'm connecting them has changed really drastically — even just in the past week-ish.
at the base of all of this, i keep coming back to borderlands (specifically BL2) and how powerfully it influenced how i interpret chorus. there's a particular aspect of BL2 that i've managed to skip over entirely in "my" chorus so far, and as i was doing some thinking about it, i realized that it really, really should be in this fic. for some reason neither BLTPS nor TFTBL touched on this particular Thing – which was fine, those stories didn't hinge on it – but to me, it really, really resonates with chorus as a setting, as well as all the people from chorus we've met. hell, BL2 as a whole resonates with chorus for me, and not just because i played a shitton of BL2 when the chorus trilogy was airing (though i can't deny they're tied together for me, lol). this paragraph was vague as hell, soz, but yeah.
i've settled on a good way to work in this whole... concept? that's much better than what i had written before, so, adios to even more writing! indiscriminately dumping all of this is going to be a loss of ~4k words, which, now that i see it written out, is a lot more than it seemed. i might keep some of it, but i'm not particularly intent on doing so.
irl stuff has left me feeling very drained so i haven't written anything this week, but hopefully things will calm down next week and/or i'll have more energy.
it's frustrating, but at the same time, it's really incredibly liberating. hey! things change! that's how it is. plans can be fluid. i still have the major beats i want to hit, but the way i'm connecting them has changed really drastically — even just in the past week-ish.
at the base of all of this, i keep coming back to borderlands (specifically BL2) and how powerfully it influenced how i interpret chorus. there's a particular aspect of BL2 that i've managed to skip over entirely in "my" chorus so far, and as i was doing some thinking about it, i realized that it really, really should be in this fic. for some reason neither BLTPS nor TFTBL touched on this particular Thing – which was fine, those stories didn't hinge on it – but to me, it really, really resonates with chorus as a setting, as well as all the people from chorus we've met. hell, BL2 as a whole resonates with chorus for me, and not just because i played a shitton of BL2 when the chorus trilogy was airing (though i can't deny they're tied together for me, lol). this paragraph was vague as hell, soz, but yeah.
i've settled on a good way to work in this whole... concept? that's much better than what i had written before, so, adios to even more writing! indiscriminately dumping all of this is going to be a loss of ~4k words, which, now that i see it written out, is a lot more than it seemed. i might keep some of it, but i'm not particularly intent on doing so.
irl stuff has left me feeling very drained so i haven't written anything this week, but hopefully things will calm down next week and/or i'll have more energy.
