Stories, and stories

Want to finish that story about Lily Potter. It's tempting, I think, because it's very nearly original fiction - closer than The Berchtesgaden Debriefing even. Magic doesn't come into much play in it, so it could be the story of two schoolgirls nearly anywhere, in any number of periods. I drift in that direction naturally, and it carries its proper set of headaches, mostly relating to a profusion of choice. I find fanfiction restrictive, like writing poetry to metrical form, but the restrictions help me write in the sense that they dictate what word/sentence/scene should follow upon the last: someone else's setting and characterisation, someone else's (i.e. the fandom's) expectations even, take the weight of a large chunk of those decisions off my shoulders. When there's nothing else to tell me what should happen next I have to rely on my own gut instinct, and my gut is incapable of judging an option unless it's physically laid out and there. So I write a paragraph, then cross it out and write another, and then yet another... You can tell when this happens, because I get mired down and complain loudly. Too far off the beaten track, a WK or FF7 or SSAE universe that resembles no one else's (especially when that's because no one else is writing the series oh wow oh joy), who's going to tell me what should happen if they do this and this and this? Not Motoni Modoru, that's for sure...

Of course there's the upside, which I usually notice when I'm writing original fiction proper. No need to analyse whether [insert action/thought] would be appropriate for X's character; whatever I write becomes X's character, period. Is a great lot of abusable power. ^_^;

( those who asked about Easter dinner... )

Happy Easter

Upon that note, Three Ways You Know Jesus Was A Woman:

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