WIPs etc

Aug. 18th, 2004 10:58 pm
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I'm feeling a bit quiet at the moment so I'm not commenting much. I've been a little run down and finally had to take today off because of some sort of virus which made me sleep all day.

Also, I've got behind on LJ because I'm finally reading [livejournal.com profile] nwhepcat's Lilac City which I'm sure most of the people on my Flist read as it came out in instalments. I'm not keen on WIPs -- if it's a good story, then I get too tense about what's going to happen next -- so I'm always glad when a work like this is finally finished so I can feel comfortable reading it. ([livejournal.com profile] scribll posted on this recently too.) Once I'm done I'll probably go back to the original LJ posts, as I'm curious about what people commented on as it appeared.

Looking at [livejournal.com profile] rahirah's recent list of readable WIPs, I know it's my loss, but the tension between episodes is not something I enjoy. Given that Buffy and Angel could be considered WIPs during their production run, you'd think I'd be better with this sort of thing, but I watched most of the series on video or in its twice-a-day syndication, so it wasn't quite as bad. When I finally caught up enough to watch it week-by-week on telly, I could get actually physically nauseous prior to and whilst watching the shows. And, pathetically enough, I had a few sleepless nights over it too. As if they weren't enough real things in the world to lose sleep over.

I think my writers' block has gone. I wrote some stuff last week that looked OK at the time, but I'll need to go back to reread and edit before I can be sure that it wasn't another false start. I was stuck on a scene, so eventually I found a way to restructure the story so that the scene was no longer required. I had to go right back to the beginning though. It's this sort of late change that makes me wonder how people manage to write coherent and interesting works as WIPs at all.

Rec: [livejournal.com profile] azdak on death metaphors in Season Six.
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