Tag: path timeline

I love my plot, it’s exactly my kind of plot, that’s why I’m writing it, but how much cute is too cute and is it flowing out from the not-so-happy in a logical fashion and is there enough conflict and is it the right kind and does this plot have too many falls and rises, how long should the chapters be because this might end up at a hundred chapters and none of it might hold anybody’s interest but mine in the end, but fanfics can be as long as they like and so what if it’s a little more soap than I usually like because the bulk of the difficulty is interpersonal, oh well, that’s this fic life.

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ardwynna:

I’m maintaining the thinnest veneer of a lead in NaNo but have crossed off only a scant handful of scenes from the list. Long fic will be looooong.

Lost my slight lead. I can still catch up but I have to take care of other things first.

All caught up after a little slide back. This is probably my most ‘standard’ NaNo experience to date, just keeping pace. But the higher the word count goes the more I realize this is going to be one massive fic. I could keep working on Path all year and NaNo this thing a third time next November, probably.

The NaNo goes less than well at the moment, but I have at least managed to write every day so far. I knew this year would be up and down for it, there’s much more on my plate than last year. At least with that long list of scenes I don’t struggle to figure out what to write next. Just scroll down to one I feel up to, start writing it, I’ll string them all together in editing.

Sometimes I ask these stories of mine why they chose me, out of all the people with their ears tuned to the muses, welcoming ideas out of the ether, why would these long, detailed, convoluted, complicated, nuanced and layered stories choose me. When they knew what I’d chosen to do with my life, when they knew how little time I could spare to give them.

Because you would see us for what we could be, and love us for the possibilities. Because you would give us your love even if there was little time. Just give us what time you can.

Nudes

There’s a story on the base, a widespread mix of rumor and assumption, that whenever you see the General staring at his phone and wearing a certain little smile, he’s looking at pictures of his wife.

He has a whole collection of these pics, a timeline of her beauty down the years. He keeps them in a particular folder for quiet times and stressful days. Don’t interrupt the man when he’s got that smile and for the love of Holy, don’t try to glance over his shoulder. The pics are nudes and for his eyes only.

There’s some truth to the tales. Sephiroth does have a folder. It is full of pics, and they are of his wife, and she was naked when he took them. But, unknown to all but the accidental few, Aeris is a blanket burrito in every single one of them.

I know what I want to do with Zack, in the far off endgame story. But however logical and in character it is, it breaks my heart for being bittersweet, and I say I like those kinds of endings but I’m not ready? Guess it’s a good thing that part’s a long way off.