June of Doom & Gloom - Week 4 discussion and etc. post

[huinare]

Welcome to week 4 (challenge details here yadda yadda)! We still have a week until July 1st, so we're not off the hook yet. I'm excited that finished stories have appeared on the scene!
Discussion in comments, if so desired. Woes, gloating, links to your stories? Optional discussion topic for all: Are there ways in which your writing has changed since around this time last year--in terms of writing style, themes, plot devices, characters, or whatever else? Go!

Comments

[independence1776]

I've decided ficlet collection; I've put other challenge-type and gift stories there before, so there's really no reason for me not to. I'm glad to hear that!

Are there benefits you perceive to leaving it for longer periods (kinda like "sleeping on it" maybe?) or is it just the nature of what you've been writing lately?

The latter. It's the dark AU specifically: I started writing it for B2MeM and realized it was too long to both write and edit before the due date, so I put it aside to work on another story. And every time I went back to work on it, I stalled and ended up working on something else. Hopefully I fixed the problem that kept stalling me (the timeline stuff), so when I sit back down to work on it, it'll be easier to write straight through. While I've learned I can write in fits-and-starts (something I flat-out thought I couldn't do), it's still not something I particularily enjoy.

[huinare.livejournal.com]

I see your story's appeared on SWG/ =D I'll have a read later today.

[independence1776]

Aww, thank you!

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Apologies if my SWG comment was kind of flippant in regards to the Valinor thing. I was too eager, it seems, to interpret it in light of my cynicism. ;)

[independence1776]

None needed at all! Cynicism is half the reason I wrote it; I can't buy them just sailing into Valinor, either. But since I'm inordinately fond of the Tuor-becomes-immortal ending, I needed some reason to justify that with canon saying Eärendil was the first success. (Sad to say, I didn't actually think of the possibility until I came up with the story idea. Cue a light bulb going on in my head: "Oh! That's how it happened.")

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I see. That works!