if i disappear: progress
Jul. 27th, 2019 02:06![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
autisticblueteamI have a complete outline! Or, well, as complete as it's going to get at this point without the inevitable revisions as I go.
27 chapters. 20,000 words of outlining. A mostly coherently overall story and probably the angstiest damn thing I'll ever write, because that's just the nature of Connie's story. There's no happy ending to this one.
Most canon scenes are covered and re-told but at least one I've decided to skip both for emotional impact and because I simply cannot wrangle the dialogue into something usable without making the scene unrecognisable.
I'm definitely leaning towards writing all of this out before posting it, this time, or at least the majority of it. I want to be able to write a few other, smaller fics too, in the meantime, and that's much harder when you have a bi-weekly deadline to hit for a chapter. That and I know writing and posting sequentially before caused some minor disparities in TtTaR, so I'm going to err on the side of caution.
I'm looking forward to starting writing it, once I'm a little more secure in my real-life responsibilities.
Minor observations of the day:
What I have to do next is to tidy up some of my planning documents and notes, then from there I'll give what I have another re-read and see how it works. After maybe a day or two off to catch up on my academic wordcount requirements. At least that'll give me fresher eyes.
27 chapters. 20,000 words of outlining. A mostly coherently overall story and probably the angstiest damn thing I'll ever write, because that's just the nature of Connie's story. There's no happy ending to this one.
Most canon scenes are covered and re-told but at least one I've decided to skip both for emotional impact and because I simply cannot wrangle the dialogue into something usable without making the scene unrecognisable.
I'm definitely leaning towards writing all of this out before posting it, this time, or at least the majority of it. I want to be able to write a few other, smaller fics too, in the meantime, and that's much harder when you have a bi-weekly deadline to hit for a chapter. That and I know writing and posting sequentially before caused some minor disparities in TtTaR, so I'm going to err on the side of caution.
I'm looking forward to starting writing it, once I'm a little more secure in my real-life responsibilities.
Minor observations of the day:
- I've only now made the connection between the silent alarm/the Director saying 'they knew we were coming' at the start of the scrapyard mission and the fact that Connie would have had to warn her contact ahead of time so they could organise that drop.
- Every time I re-watch Longshore, I still can't help but be struck by how it seems that Connie saw Wyoming and Florida after they landed. Despite her saying 'I didn't think they'd find me so quickly', what must only be maybe an hour or two after her arrival at the most, she seemed to stare back at Wyoming with full awareness that he was there. You don't meet someone almost dead in the eye like that, for multiple straight seconds, without seeing them (or, well, you could, but...). Wyoming and Florida's armour are hardly the most camouflaged for that water and it's such a deliberate moment of 'eye contact', for lack of a better term, that it feels like we are meant to assume that she noticed them somehow.
- Why she doesn't tell the Innies, I don't quite know. I'm working out her motivation for that for my own purposes.
What I have to do next is to tidy up some of my planning documents and notes, then from there I'll give what I have another re-read and see how it works. After maybe a day or two off to catch up on my academic wordcount requirements. At least that'll give me fresher eyes.
