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I am a Martian and she worships Venus.
Nov. 7th, 2004 06:44 am( Cut for whining about relationships )
And I'm way behind on my NaNo as well. I've only written 2,670 words and I should be up to at least 10,000 by now. I need to figure out motivations and I hate doing that.
I've noticed that it's very difficult for me to write a story with a specific theme (emotional or otherwise) in mind. "Reeling Off The Years" only worked because I was thinking about how to get from Darth Vader to chaos theory in a conversationally logical manner. The themes of distance and missed opportunities emerged while I wasn't watching--I didn't even mean to make Junie into an emotionally frustrated oh-man-I-hope-that's-not-my-future who gradually got slightly meaner and less tactful throughout the meal (possibly because of the beer; I can't handle alcohol too well either).
I say this because I'm currently trying to formulate a couple of stories that really have very broad themes. "From the Gods", a kind-of fic based off the story that George wrote about Marty in "Reeling Off The Years", is about a man who comes to believe that his son, and eventually all teenagers, are actually aliens. It's going to be a very chilling and psychological story and will be a fantastic metaphor for the generation gap if I ever figure out how to write it. And the untitled Marty/Marty (which I am considering naming after a Guns 'N' Roses song or possibly a Motley Crue song or maybe using a lyric from either of these bands for the title, since all the fics I've done for BTTF so far have had similar title origins) now has all sorts of emotional subtext (thank you Nightspore) that I don't know how to write. I want to make it subtle, but when I actually set out to write a fic with psychological subtext, the motivations tend to come shooting straight to the surface (see "Divine Rehabilitation of Jason Mewes" for an example).
So I need to keep "Ramble On" as plot-based as possible in order to let all this quietly shine through, while keeping everyone's motivations and personalities in mind. This is going to be very difficult. I just have to remember that it's my first time and if I don't get it finished by the end of November it isn't that big of a deal.
And I'm way behind on my NaNo as well. I've only written 2,670 words and I should be up to at least 10,000 by now. I need to figure out motivations and I hate doing that.
I've noticed that it's very difficult for me to write a story with a specific theme (emotional or otherwise) in mind. "Reeling Off The Years" only worked because I was thinking about how to get from Darth Vader to chaos theory in a conversationally logical manner. The themes of distance and missed opportunities emerged while I wasn't watching--I didn't even mean to make Junie into an emotionally frustrated oh-man-I-hope-that's-not-my-future who gradually got slightly meaner and less tactful throughout the meal (possibly because of the beer; I can't handle alcohol too well either).
I say this because I'm currently trying to formulate a couple of stories that really have very broad themes. "From the Gods", a kind-of fic based off the story that George wrote about Marty in "Reeling Off The Years", is about a man who comes to believe that his son, and eventually all teenagers, are actually aliens. It's going to be a very chilling and psychological story and will be a fantastic metaphor for the generation gap if I ever figure out how to write it. And the untitled Marty/Marty (which I am considering naming after a Guns 'N' Roses song or possibly a Motley Crue song or maybe using a lyric from either of these bands for the title, since all the fics I've done for BTTF so far have had similar title origins) now has all sorts of emotional subtext (thank you Nightspore) that I don't know how to write. I want to make it subtle, but when I actually set out to write a fic with psychological subtext, the motivations tend to come shooting straight to the surface (see "Divine Rehabilitation of Jason Mewes" for an example).
So I need to keep "Ramble On" as plot-based as possible in order to let all this quietly shine through, while keeping everyone's motivations and personalities in mind. This is going to be very difficult. I just have to remember that it's my first time and if I don't get it finished by the end of November it isn't that big of a deal.
