Oh, *John*.....

[icarus]

Out Of Bounds progress: now 6,800 words.

I asked John, I said, "John, you're really very interested in Rodney, right?"

John hemmed and hawed, which I'll take as a yes.

So I prodded John in Rodney's direction -- go, go get him.

What does John do?

He makes jokes with Rodney about hockey players. Yes, I know, in his world that is flirting.

*sighs*

Wait. His next move is brilliant. I hadn't thought of that.

By the way, I'm still trying to get that download of that Barbara Streisand piece John was forced to listen (and skate) to all day. Oh, my god. *laughs* Poor John!

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[sarka.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

No control over the characters anymore?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

None whatsoever. John in particular. (Although this is assuming I ever had any in the first place, heh. That may have been an illusion.)

Actually this reminds me of a discussion with WG. I told him my characters won't do as I say. He said, "You're the writer! You can make them do whatever you want." I said, "Yes, but, if I want to stay true to their characterization I have to let them do it."

Oh.

Hmm. Let me ask John what he wants to do next.

Icarus

[sarka.livejournal.com]

"You're the writer! You can make them do whatever you want."

Hahahahaahahaaaa! *giggles*

I have a friend who's a novice writer who was complaining about the same thing the other day. I told him basically what you said - though less eloquently and in more words, but yeah, that is exactly it. If the idea is insistent enough, half the trick of being a good writer is knowing when to let it flow and when to step on the brakes, methinks.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I have to tell you, that was the short version. I was so flabbergasted that he didn't understand. It reminded me of the time that my step dad was buying my brother and I art supplies. He scowled at the little putty erasers and said, "But they're going to be drawing, not erasing."

My mom said, "I'm not an artist, but when I watched their dad draw, he did at least as much erasing as drawing."

Hee.

[rike-tikki-tavi.livejournal.com]

Whaaa! Now I really wanna know what John is doing.

But, nearly 7000 new words out skating fic!*\o/*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

What do you think? Should I start posting these scenes one at a time? Or just hold onto them?

Artistically, there are certain natural breaks that really need to be posted separately (particularly because of the music that goes with them). But amothea was asking for all of them at the same time. If I did that, I'm not at the natural break point to post any of them yet.

Icarus