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gwyn(Well, two sorta -- my awful foster dog is sick, most likely from eating something in the garden she shouldn't have. Blech. I'm waiting to see if I need to take her to the vet.)
My real problem is this: I'm at 8,000 words on this Bucky and Steve trying to find each other story and I have barely begun it -- and it's going to be full of flashbacks to important things between them from before the war to during the war. I have a bad feeling this is going to be another one of my why can't I fucking write short epics, but I don't know what to do about it.
So y'all helped me decide to write that Sam/Steve double date story first, now I need you to help me figure this out. Do I wait till I'm finished and post it or post it as a WIP? I have a somewhat dodgy history with WIPS -- I did manage to finish Ciudad de Estrellas, my Fast and Furious thing, but I had a tough time because my sister's death came in the middle of it. The same thing was a problem with my Buffy WIP, Measure of a Man, and I've never finished it. Not for want of trying, but it was just so fucking hard after both losing my twin and losing the show -- it was kind of a double whammy for me. I still have this hope that I may finish it someday.
I like to edit and edit and edit my stuff. It's harder to do that when you're posting in pieces, making sure one piece is in tip top shape before posting. And it's not like hurrying will make a difference, I don't tend to get a lot of hits for anything, even hot fandoms, plus next week X-Men opens, so I think everyone will move over there for the time being. So waiting might be easier. And I've been really really depressed this past week, so it's kind of a struggle to be creative.
But...if I get busy again, which may happen, my writing time will drop back down to almost nil. Don't a lot of people also not read WIPs? I don't have that problem myself but I don't know. What's the general consensus?
I gotta say, the timeline for the first movie is driving me batshit. As a WWII buff, I find everything that they're doing is so...it's like, so close and yet so far. We weren't hanging around in northern Italy in Nov. of 1943 having USO shows (the Allied invasion began in Sept. of '43; I think Anzio was Jan. of '44), and we never, even at the end of the war, got up past the Po, where it's implied they were during the rescue. And you couldn't fly back and forth to England and Italy anyway, if that war room is really back in England -- they would have had to go around the Iberian peninsula with fuckin' prop planes or ships, basically, and that would take for fucking ever. It's just crazy. I don't understand what they're thinking. And if Cap and the boys marched back from where they were held? Days. And it's winter. I just, what? Did no one actually read any WWII histories?
I know I need to just let it go and write according to the movie canon, but wow, is it ever hard.
My real problem is this: I'm at 8,000 words on this Bucky and Steve trying to find each other story and I have barely begun it -- and it's going to be full of flashbacks to important things between them from before the war to during the war. I have a bad feeling this is going to be another one of my why can't I fucking write short epics, but I don't know what to do about it.
So y'all helped me decide to write that Sam/Steve double date story first, now I need you to help me figure this out. Do I wait till I'm finished and post it or post it as a WIP? I have a somewhat dodgy history with WIPS -- I did manage to finish Ciudad de Estrellas, my Fast and Furious thing, but I had a tough time because my sister's death came in the middle of it. The same thing was a problem with my Buffy WIP, Measure of a Man, and I've never finished it. Not for want of trying, but it was just so fucking hard after both losing my twin and losing the show -- it was kind of a double whammy for me. I still have this hope that I may finish it someday.
I like to edit and edit and edit my stuff. It's harder to do that when you're posting in pieces, making sure one piece is in tip top shape before posting. And it's not like hurrying will make a difference, I don't tend to get a lot of hits for anything, even hot fandoms, plus next week X-Men opens, so I think everyone will move over there for the time being. So waiting might be easier. And I've been really really depressed this past week, so it's kind of a struggle to be creative.
But...if I get busy again, which may happen, my writing time will drop back down to almost nil. Don't a lot of people also not read WIPs? I don't have that problem myself but I don't know. What's the general consensus?
I gotta say, the timeline for the first movie is driving me batshit. As a WWII buff, I find everything that they're doing is so...it's like, so close and yet so far. We weren't hanging around in northern Italy in Nov. of 1943 having USO shows (the Allied invasion began in Sept. of '43; I think Anzio was Jan. of '44), and we never, even at the end of the war, got up past the Po, where it's implied they were during the rescue. And you couldn't fly back and forth to England and Italy anyway, if that war room is really back in England -- they would have had to go around the Iberian peninsula with fuckin' prop planes or ships, basically, and that would take for fucking ever. It's just crazy. I don't understand what they're thinking. And if Cap and the boys marched back from where they were held? Days. And it's winter. I just, what? Did no one actually read any WWII histories?
I know I need to just let it go and write according to the movie canon, but wow, is it ever hard.
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Date: 2014-05-19 04:43 am (UTC)