I Can Kill That Plotbunny in...
May. 24th, 2009 11:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
christinex1001...6,500 words!
Maybe it's writing as therapy. Who knows? Who cares, at this point?
Erik and I went to see Terminator Salvation on Friday night. While I had a few issues with how some things were handled, overall I enjoyed it very much. I also came home with a raging plotbunny that wouldn't leave me alone. Since I'd already planned to spend most of the weekend avoiding Erik's family, I figured this was a good time to get writing. Frankly, I didn't want to have what happened with Star Trek happen again -- I had what I thought was a great idea but waffled around, thinking, 'Oh, I should read the novelization first," and didn't do anything about it. Then I find out someone's already started writing a fic with the same basic idea. While I know our stories probably would have been very different, I didn't want people thinking that I had ripped off someone else plot idea (it would have gotten a bit tedious to keep dragging my husband in as a character witness to vouch for the fact that I'd discussed the idea with him over dinner right after we saw the movie for the first time). So anyway, long story short, I sat my ass down in the chair and got writing. I think 6,500 words in two days is pretty good (especially for me, since my output has been rather, erm...spotty...lately).
I wrote the story as a standalone, but there's certainly room to go on with it. I'll probably just wait to see how it's received. Here's the link, if anyone's curious:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5085862/1/
But for now, it's probably time to go to bed. :-o
Maybe it's writing as therapy. Who knows? Who cares, at this point?
Erik and I went to see Terminator Salvation on Friday night. While I had a few issues with how some things were handled, overall I enjoyed it very much. I also came home with a raging plotbunny that wouldn't leave me alone. Since I'd already planned to spend most of the weekend avoiding Erik's family, I figured this was a good time to get writing. Frankly, I didn't want to have what happened with Star Trek happen again -- I had what I thought was a great idea but waffled around, thinking, 'Oh, I should read the novelization first," and didn't do anything about it. Then I find out someone's already started writing a fic with the same basic idea. While I know our stories probably would have been very different, I didn't want people thinking that I had ripped off someone else plot idea (it would have gotten a bit tedious to keep dragging my husband in as a character witness to vouch for the fact that I'd discussed the idea with him over dinner right after we saw the movie for the first time). So anyway, long story short, I sat my ass down in the chair and got writing. I think 6,500 words in two days is pretty good (especially for me, since my output has been rather, erm...spotty...lately).
I wrote the story as a standalone, but there's certainly room to go on with it. I'll probably just wait to see how it's received. Here's the link, if anyone's curious:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5085862/1/
But for now, it's probably time to go to bed. :-o
