Ron Ficathon - a lingering sense of foreboding

[icarus]

As many of you have read, I've been having a horrible time with my Ron Ficathon story. Like a lot of the slashers on my friendslist I had sort of assumed the Ficathon was slash-centric (if not solely slash), though a quick glance down the challenges would have answered that.

A few of you know I've been sort of... stuck... since leaving hp_dungeons. I've ingrained a few bad habits (over-reliance on deep penetration POV, not enough visual description), shaken up a few of my strengths (good story structure - impossible to do in an RPG, and fresh plots). I'd written Percy for so long, everything was coming out sounding like him. Plus taking literature classes has a bad way of causing you to stand outside your writing and judge, judge, judge. You can't stand outside your story and write.

This has all made for a miserable Icarus trying to write again.

Throw into this the Ficathon:
- I was asked to write Het.
- Ron/Hermione.
- Keep the focus off the relationship (moi? All stories are relationships! That's where plots develop).
- And I was given a very complete, detailed and specific plot bunny that was of no interest to me whatsoever.
- All about Quidditch? I hate sports.

I did finish it. It's about 20 pages (complicated plot). It came to life for me with a little flip humour, some moral dilemmas and a lot of magic. And I happily tore the Quidditch world (and shitty jobs) to shreds.

I do like it, though I think it needs work (thank you my lovely betas).

I incorporated everything she wanted; was pleased with myself. Now I just checked her LJ...

Looking at it, my guess is that our tastes are so radically different that it's not something that she'll particularly enjoy. Too dark. Too mean to Quidditch. Still too relationship-centric.

UPDATE: Just heard from her. She's read my stuff before, and is thrilled I'm writing her story.

*Icarus beams and is overwhelmingly relieved.*
*Thinks about it. Panics. What if she hates the story?*
*You're sick of my neurosis about this by now, aren't you?*

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

lizardspots drew it for Sex, Drugs and Death Eater Rock (http://home.earthlink.net/~dinkbird/), and it's one my all-time favourites! I have it up on my website, and my cookie-cutter Click-N-Build site only allows a couple pictures. You have to scroll all-the-way to the bottom.

:)

Icarus