I hated it and I went back to the first one. I am still having trouble. Argh!
That's so frustrating...I know how you feel. This morning I scrapped three different half formed ideas that I just couldn't get to go anywhere. But at least I feel really positive about this one, and I was never more than half sure about the others. Not a good sign, huh?
I think my biggest problem is that I worry too much about what the recipient will think. It's someone on my flist, and I had this same problem with the Teal'c fic. I wanted it to be good for minxy because she's always been a supporter of my fic and I wanted something she'd really be happy with.
But it was worse with that one, because I'd never written either of those characters, and Teal'c is so difficult to pin down...I've never had a fic that was so late to a ficathon as that one was. I usually run a day or two late, I'm the eternal procrastinator, it's something I've never been able to fix, no matter how hard I try. But man...that was tough.
My beta has told me I'm not allowed to do any more exchanges - she thinks that's my problem, because I worry too much about what the person getting my fic is going to think, and what *they* want, that I screw up my head. I need to focus on challenges that just give me a prompt and pit me against a time limit. She's right, I do better with those.
Did you ever figure out how old Cassie was? Brain is dead...
Yeah. She's 12 in Season One, and the fic I'm writing is a little more than half way through Season Three. I'm actually going to fudge just a bit, because 15 is kind of old for a girl to want a treehouse. I'm stretching it a bit by making her 14 (and a half - as she reminds everyone) and making it more of a "room of my own" kind of thing. I think it will work. It's gonna have to, huh? I don't have time to come up with another idea!
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That's so frustrating...I know how you feel. This morning I scrapped three different half formed ideas that I just couldn't get to go anywhere. But at least I feel really positive about this one, and I was never more than half sure about the others. Not a good sign, huh?
I think my biggest problem is that I worry too much about what the recipient will think. It's someone on my flist, and I had this same problem with the Teal'c fic. I wanted it to be good for minxy because she's always been a supporter of my fic and I wanted something she'd really be happy with.
But it was worse with that one, because I'd never written either of those characters, and Teal'c is so difficult to pin down...I've never had a fic that was so late to a ficathon as that one was. I usually run a day or two late, I'm the eternal procrastinator, it's something I've never been able to fix, no matter how hard I try. But man...that was tough.
My beta has told me I'm not allowed to do any more exchanges - she thinks that's my problem, because I worry too much about what the person getting my fic is going to think, and what *they* want, that I screw up my head. I need to focus on challenges that just give me a prompt and pit me against a time limit. She's right, I do better with those.
Did you ever figure out how old Cassie was? Brain is dead...
Yeah. She's 12 in Season One, and the fic I'm writing is a little more than half way through Season Three. I'm actually going to fudge just a bit, because 15 is kind of old for a girl to want a treehouse. I'm stretching it a bit by making her 14 (and a half - as she reminds everyone) and making it more of a "room of my own" kind of thing. I think it will work. It's gonna have to, huh? I don't have time to come up with another idea!