Hoo boy.

I am so jittery and nervous. That dark West Side Story oneshot I was working on I got up ... but I tinkered around with it and threw in a twist later on that I had not planned on. That changes it from being the flat-out tragedy it originally was. And it's funny, it's that aspect that makes me worry someone is going to throw rotten fruit, rather than to think that people would get upset about the tragic elements. Part of me wants to separate the pieces and just leave the dark part, but I don't want to do that either because I love the later part as well. So I'm stuck with posting it as-is and wanting it that way and yet being very conflicted at the same time. Mama Mia. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7118730/1/

I should try to look over part 3 of the multi-part venture and see if I think it's done. I managed to add some very interesting things, including Schrank monologuing and how some of the main Jets really feel about what happened to him.

I also know, I think, how the rest of the Kolchak chapter will go. The Wal-Mart meeting won't be yet; I need to fit in some other clashes first. I'm anxious to get back to that, which I can hopefully do now that the oneshot is done (unless I decide I really have to somehow separate the parts).

The 31_days theme for tomorrow interests me a great deal. Paraphrased, it says something like When you choose to do the right thing, life becomes easier - no distractions. I wrote up something a few days ago that I was idly thinking of posting for it, but I'm not sure. It's a fairly rough, unpolished ficlet and probably really needs to be fleshed out more. There is a character death. And the manner of death maybe needs more expounding.

Basically I took an RP scenario from a recent RP with Crystal and altered it for the ficlet. In the RP, ghosts are angry and are throwing trunks at people intruding in their domain. Schrank tackles Sarah Nade out of the way of one of them and is struck by one of them himself. In the ficlet, the punk is nameless (but is not intended to be Sarah Nade) and I didn't want anything supernatural to be going on. So the gangs fooling around in the old house have caused it to be even more unstable, and somehow the punk jars something that tears a heavy beam loose from the ceiling. Schrank still tackles her away and is struck himself. Krupke then explodes in grief and anger at the punk for having got them into this situation and Schrank killed.

If I do post it, it will probably just be at 31_days for the time being, since I'm trying that other oneshot at FF.net and I need to get up the next part of the multi-part fic.