Squeaking in under the Sunday Six deadline, 10/13

[stunt_muppet]

I tried to write something new this week. Didn't pan out. Only other thing I wrote this week was overheated romance novel prose but thankfully there was enough in there that I could post six-ish sentences with most of the really embarrassing bits edited out.

Did some planning writing, though, so maybe I can clean that up tomorrow while I'm off.



- because it's tonight, Shiro promised her tomorrow and that means they're together, maybe right now, and how is he supposed to sleep knowing that?

And Allura has to know that he knows it, too, or what was that wink about? She knows that he's lying alone in bed too feverish to rest and imagining her -

- no, imagining them, both of them, together -

She knows. And she must want him squirming.
 

Comments

[stunt_muppet]

Aw, thank you - especially for the last part. I'm grateful for the reminder that it's still good to write even if it doesn't all go in the final product. Otherwise how will I know what works?

I really enjoy *writing* the florid dramatic prose - one thing that I've started doing is keeping a file where I can write random sentences that are too overwrought to go in an actual story - but if I want to strike any other tone in a fic then that kind of prose has to get dialed back, especially if it's supposed to be from the same POV character. Plus, the fact that I find it so fun means I get really worried that even when I tgink it sounds good it actually doesn't and will sound maudlin and weird to everyone else.

[enemyofperfect]

Oh wow, so much sympathy on worrying that the more dramatic stuff might actually be too much. These days when I'm writing, sometimes I really struggle with putting any emotion or color on the page, and a big part of that is the fear of going overboard I seem to have internalized somewhere along the way.

But it's so great that you have a file for any sentences that don't seem to fit! I tend to do that with snippets I end up cutting, too -- it helps to know they have a home somewhere, even if they don't fit in what I'm working on. And it's good to have fun with things sometimes!