More on Out Of Bounds....

[icarus]

My beta is out of town this weekend. *Icarus clings to perfica's leg, "Nooo, don't go!"*

No, no, that's just what I thought. In email I managed a gracious "Have a nice trip!"

To encourage further progress on the figure skating AU, Out Of Bounds, some statistics --

Total word count on Out Of Bounds at this point: 63,000 words.

Word count one month ago: 37,000 words.

Amount of this waiting in the wings, not yet posted for public consumption: 8,128 words.

I'm skipping all over in this next section. Some extra scenes have popped up. One major one. I spent the day studying the physical training figure skaters undergo.

I have a performance of John's to write. Two on-ice training scenes (these are the two that are giving me trouble, mostly a research issue and because of Rodney). One off-ice training. One non-figure skating scene.

I want to call this five scenes, but reality would call this a clutter of scenes. A chaos of scenes. There are other little scenes cutting across these, and then there's John and Rodney's relationship and...

Need to rewrite two falls. In skating there are falls and then there are falls. There are the falls that are the usual, "Gosh, that was a hard move, whoops, didn't make it." And then there are the serious, "Holy fuck, this is a disaster" falls. Somehow, I have to describe the difference.

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[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Hah. Well, this isn't the part where one needed much knowledge. But, I needed to hit the right note.

This is a fall that's being watched from the outside. It's not John, and it's not Rodney.