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I have discovered A Problem...
Oct. 23rd, 2022 07:53 pmSo, my plan for NaNoWriMo next month has been to try and grind out 50k on a very long-standing project I've had going. I usually call it the "Worldhopping Fairytale Monstrosity" and it's been in some stage of progress (through several incarnations and versions) for close to 15 years at this point.
It's a Kingdom Hearts fic, set after KH2 and ignoring pretty much everything else from the series. (In part because I started it before anything else existed, in part because even once those other games happened I couldn't play them, and in part because the lore got infamously wack after that point and I didn't want to mess with it, lol.)
It's more or less set up similarly to the games, in that the characters visit different worlds, but instead of worlds inspired by Disney movies, the worlds are based around various favorite fairy tales of mine. The overarching plot has to do with the mirror from the fairytale "The Snow Queen" and the broken shards that get into people's eyes and hearts and cause them to see the worst in the world and behave the same. It's got an OT3 endgame.
It shaped up to be very LONG, as the last attempt I made to write it (back in 2018) got barely a third through what I'd planned out, and was already creeping up toward 100k. That represents the *sixth* semi-organized attempt, so I don't really want to start over on a seventh.
So the thought was to reread the 9 or so chapters I have written, and progress from there, figuring that whatever needs fixing and cleaning up can be done on the second draft once the whole damn thing is somehow finished. With that in mind, I started to read it...
Which brings me to the problem.
Eesh, I really don't like it.
( Courtesy cut for length: )
I am going to reread the rest of what I'd written, and we'll see if it changes my mind. (Maybe I'll re-fall in love with the rest, and having to rewrite a lousy opening chapter will feel completely worth it.)
But this introduces at least the possibility of a second problem:
If I DO decide that this project is no longer worth pushing forward on... then what the hell AM I going to try and write for NaNoWriMo??
It's a Kingdom Hearts fic, set after KH2 and ignoring pretty much everything else from the series. (In part because I started it before anything else existed, in part because even once those other games happened I couldn't play them, and in part because the lore got infamously wack after that point and I didn't want to mess with it, lol.)
It's more or less set up similarly to the games, in that the characters visit different worlds, but instead of worlds inspired by Disney movies, the worlds are based around various favorite fairy tales of mine. The overarching plot has to do with the mirror from the fairytale "The Snow Queen" and the broken shards that get into people's eyes and hearts and cause them to see the worst in the world and behave the same. It's got an OT3 endgame.
It shaped up to be very LONG, as the last attempt I made to write it (back in 2018) got barely a third through what I'd planned out, and was already creeping up toward 100k. That represents the *sixth* semi-organized attempt, so I don't really want to start over on a seventh.
So the thought was to reread the 9 or so chapters I have written, and progress from there, figuring that whatever needs fixing and cleaning up can be done on the second draft once the whole damn thing is somehow finished. With that in mind, I started to read it...
Which brings me to the problem.
Eesh, I really don't like it.
( Courtesy cut for length: )
I am going to reread the rest of what I'd written, and we'll see if it changes my mind. (Maybe I'll re-fall in love with the rest, and having to rewrite a lousy opening chapter will feel completely worth it.)
But this introduces at least the possibility of a second problem:
If I DO decide that this project is no longer worth pushing forward on... then what the hell AM I going to try and write for NaNoWriMo??
