And one more thing....
Sep. 28th, 2017 04:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
insaneladybugI didn't seem to want this to be part of that long real-life rant I just did, so I'm posting this separately.
I've been doing a slice-of-life story. It's very nice and peaceful and I really needed the break. But I wonder how much I should detail of what's happening at a party that happens in the story. I also wonder if, regardless, it's too sleepy for anyone but me and ThickerThanLove to enjoy. Part of me has considered doing a mini-conflict of foiling a bank robbery after the party, as weird robberies were alluded to a couple of times in the story, but really only so April would have a story she'd like to cover, rather than setting up a plot point.
Then I wonder what I'll want to write next. Usually I don't want to do two slice-of-lifes in a row. But the next time Shredder shows up, it's planned to be emotionally draining and heartbreaking and I'm not sure I'm ready for it. Part of me really wonders if I should have done that story with Michelangelo getting amnesia and being mind-controlled, because those are horrible things to do to someone so innocent and it set off quite a chain reaction in subsequent fics. One can't write a continuing storyline and not have repercussions when there's a really intense installment like that. But it's very difficult to ignore insistent plunnies.
To be honest, one part of me ... honestly doesn't want to do the planned thing with Shredder. But it would be very IC and it seems logical that he would do it. I think more, though, it's that when it's all planned, I don't like to disappoint the one who came up with the concept by not doing it. Of course, what I want should be the most important thing, but it gets complicated when part of me doesn't want it but the other part kind of does. I guess I want it, but I don't know that I want it to have the planned outcome, is the thing.
The original suggestion was for Shredder to be cruel and taunt Michelangelo and break him back down with his words, setting him back pretty much to where he was when they started the therapy with him. I didn't want that done, though, because it was too emotionally draining and I also figured the readers would feel like I was meanly toying with their emotions. I thought of maybe it shaking him up, but his loved ones rallying around him and getting him to cast off Shredder's words. Current concept is probably somewhere in the middle. But I don't know, instead of a setback at all, I like the idea more and more as I'm typing that Michelangelo's loved ones convince him to cast off Shredder's words and he goes back to face Shredder, instead of him being shaken to the point that there is still a setback, but not an all the way back to the beginning one. I guess I want to end this arc, but I think if I want to do this idea where Michelangelo is able to go back and face Shredder right then, I would probably need a longer passage of time between now and when Shredder shows up again.
Eh, I'll figure it out. Right now, the slice-of-life is so sleepy that it's moving very slowly writing it out. I haven't accomplished a great deal, as I've been rambling and ranting here. But I think I'm wrapping up the first draft soon. My favorite things about it are the conversations and the bits and pieces of what we learn about the characters along the way.
I've been doing a slice-of-life story. It's very nice and peaceful and I really needed the break. But I wonder how much I should detail of what's happening at a party that happens in the story. I also wonder if, regardless, it's too sleepy for anyone but me and ThickerThanLove to enjoy. Part of me has considered doing a mini-conflict of foiling a bank robbery after the party, as weird robberies were alluded to a couple of times in the story, but really only so April would have a story she'd like to cover, rather than setting up a plot point.
Then I wonder what I'll want to write next. Usually I don't want to do two slice-of-lifes in a row. But the next time Shredder shows up, it's planned to be emotionally draining and heartbreaking and I'm not sure I'm ready for it. Part of me really wonders if I should have done that story with Michelangelo getting amnesia and being mind-controlled, because those are horrible things to do to someone so innocent and it set off quite a chain reaction in subsequent fics. One can't write a continuing storyline and not have repercussions when there's a really intense installment like that. But it's very difficult to ignore insistent plunnies.
To be honest, one part of me ... honestly doesn't want to do the planned thing with Shredder. But it would be very IC and it seems logical that he would do it. I think more, though, it's that when it's all planned, I don't like to disappoint the one who came up with the concept by not doing it. Of course, what I want should be the most important thing, but it gets complicated when part of me doesn't want it but the other part kind of does. I guess I want it, but I don't know that I want it to have the planned outcome, is the thing.
The original suggestion was for Shredder to be cruel and taunt Michelangelo and break him back down with his words, setting him back pretty much to where he was when they started the therapy with him. I didn't want that done, though, because it was too emotionally draining and I also figured the readers would feel like I was meanly toying with their emotions. I thought of maybe it shaking him up, but his loved ones rallying around him and getting him to cast off Shredder's words. Current concept is probably somewhere in the middle. But I don't know, instead of a setback at all, I like the idea more and more as I'm typing that Michelangelo's loved ones convince him to cast off Shredder's words and he goes back to face Shredder, instead of him being shaken to the point that there is still a setback, but not an all the way back to the beginning one. I guess I want to end this arc, but I think if I want to do this idea where Michelangelo is able to go back and face Shredder right then, I would probably need a longer passage of time between now and when Shredder shows up again.
Eh, I'll figure it out. Right now, the slice-of-life is so sleepy that it's moving very slowly writing it out. I haven't accomplished a great deal, as I've been rambling and ranting here. But I think I'm wrapping up the first draft soon. My favorite things about it are the conversations and the bits and pieces of what we learn about the characters along the way.
