Which to write?
Dec. 10th, 2004 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI'm dithering between three stories.
Well, more than three, but three that keep feeding me lines and scenes all at the same time.
The First Time - Randall and Ripper and Ethan, between when they meet Ripper to when he kills Randall.
After London - A story based on the idea that, while Eyghon made Ripper run for home, Ethan ran with him. Or at least caught up with him once he stopped. So, from there to the breakup.
After Ethan - is about Giles after he breaks up with Ethan. Right through to after the end of season 7. And this one is a het bunny, which is strange, cause I didn't think I got those any more. But it is, in a sense, all about Ethan, like Giles has been.
One of the 'After' stories probably needs a different title. Maybe with second in it. Second chances? That works. But I wanted to make it clear that Giles has a before and an after, and the after at that point is After London. Hmmm, I can do that in a couple of paragraphs at the start instead I guess.
The trouble with all three stories is they are all deeply depressing. They involve a lot of death and relationship breakdowns and Giles being really, deeply miserable for thirty years. The only way they could even a tiny bit be considered to have a happy ending is if you assume that, since my OTP is Giles/Ethan, somewhere past the end of the page they end up together forever. Which is a pretty good assumption of what goes on in my brain, but takes a whole lot of words before it goes on in a story.
The *other* thing I want to do is skip to writing the wedding ring scene from my huge-long-fanfic-series-of-doom, but that does not actually make sense without the other twenty or so stories that lead up to it. *sigh*
Opinions?
Well, more than three, but three that keep feeding me lines and scenes all at the same time.
The First Time - Randall and Ripper and Ethan, between when they meet Ripper to when he kills Randall.
After London - A story based on the idea that, while Eyghon made Ripper run for home, Ethan ran with him. Or at least caught up with him once he stopped. So, from there to the breakup.
After Ethan - is about Giles after he breaks up with Ethan. Right through to after the end of season 7. And this one is a het bunny, which is strange, cause I didn't think I got those any more. But it is, in a sense, all about Ethan, like Giles has been.
One of the 'After' stories probably needs a different title. Maybe with second in it. Second chances? That works. But I wanted to make it clear that Giles has a before and an after, and the after at that point is After London. Hmmm, I can do that in a couple of paragraphs at the start instead I guess.
The trouble with all three stories is they are all deeply depressing. They involve a lot of death and relationship breakdowns and Giles being really, deeply miserable for thirty years. The only way they could even a tiny bit be considered to have a happy ending is if you assume that, since my OTP is Giles/Ethan, somewhere past the end of the page they end up together forever. Which is a pretty good assumption of what goes on in my brain, but takes a whole lot of words before it goes on in a story.
The *other* thing I want to do is skip to writing the wedding ring scene from my huge-long-fanfic-series-of-doom, but that does not actually make sense without the other twenty or so stories that lead up to it. *sigh*
Opinions?
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Date: 2004-12-10 12:52 pm (UTC)Julia, because some Decembr afternoons I can understand all too well what thirty years of misery would feel like
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