Good grief.
Feb. 8th, 2013 04:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladybug_archiveWell, it's official now: The Night of the Time Travel will be my longest fic to date, surpassing even It's Probably Me for the Princess Tutu fandom. I'm going to embark on chapter 24, and unlike for It's Probably Me, chapter 24 is not going to be the last chapter.
I've also been trying and failing to timeskip since around the fifth chapter! This story really likes proceeding in real-time. I'm going to try again and see if the timeskip I've had written and waiting since chapter 15 might be ready to slip in now.
Perhaps another reason for the reluctance, besides continuing to think of more angles that need to be documented before the timeskip, is that I know after the timeskip, things are probably going to spiral rather quickly to the climax. And I'll feel sad to bring this fic to a close (even though it will be a thrill at the same time). It's been such a joy to work with it, developing the characters as I please and focusing mostly on that instead of lots of action (even though the overarching plot tries to move ahead with each chapter, too).
I have part of the climax scene written and occasionally go flesh something out more or add something I thought of. Mostly it's the part after Coley is fatally hurt. I was working with it today, and gah, it's especially heartbreaking after everything that he and Ray have come through in the fic. The more of the fic that gets written, and the more their friendship develops, the more heartbreaking the climax sounds when I re-read it.
I'm trying to decide if, in the segment after that, they take Coley back home or to the hospital or whatever. Okay, realistically, yeah, he'd have to go to the hospital. But for this science-fiction/fantasy fic, once he is apparently healed enough to revive (if he was dead at all), I'm unsure if he's still wounded badly enough to warrant hospital care or if Ray would be able to nurse him back to health just fine at home.
I reaalllly hate sending characters to the hospital and would rather they take him home. Plus, Jane the cat was sure something would go wrong and was yowling pitiably not wanting Coley to leave. If they return without him and she sees he's not there ... gah.
If that happened, I did have a cute scene in my mind where Ray calls the club from the hospital and has Jane hear Coley over the phone so she knows he's alive. Otherwise, if they just bring him home instead, Jane runs to him and meows and purrs and snuggles.
The phone scene would be awfully cute, but I still don't really want to have to use the hospital if at all possible. I suppose the only real thing to do is wait until I get to that point and see what would work best then.
I've also been trying and failing to timeskip since around the fifth chapter! This story really likes proceeding in real-time. I'm going to try again and see if the timeskip I've had written and waiting since chapter 15 might be ready to slip in now.
Perhaps another reason for the reluctance, besides continuing to think of more angles that need to be documented before the timeskip, is that I know after the timeskip, things are probably going to spiral rather quickly to the climax. And I'll feel sad to bring this fic to a close (even though it will be a thrill at the same time). It's been such a joy to work with it, developing the characters as I please and focusing mostly on that instead of lots of action (even though the overarching plot tries to move ahead with each chapter, too).
I have part of the climax scene written and occasionally go flesh something out more or add something I thought of. Mostly it's the part after Coley is fatally hurt. I was working with it today, and gah, it's especially heartbreaking after everything that he and Ray have come through in the fic. The more of the fic that gets written, and the more their friendship develops, the more heartbreaking the climax sounds when I re-read it.
I'm trying to decide if, in the segment after that, they take Coley back home or to the hospital or whatever. Okay, realistically, yeah, he'd have to go to the hospital. But for this science-fiction/fantasy fic, once he is apparently healed enough to revive (if he was dead at all), I'm unsure if he's still wounded badly enough to warrant hospital care or if Ray would be able to nurse him back to health just fine at home.
I reaalllly hate sending characters to the hospital and would rather they take him home. Plus, Jane the cat was sure something would go wrong and was yowling pitiably not wanting Coley to leave. If they return without him and she sees he's not there ... gah.
If that happened, I did have a cute scene in my mind where Ray calls the club from the hospital and has Jane hear Coley over the phone so she knows he's alive. Otherwise, if they just bring him home instead, Jane runs to him and meows and purrs and snuggles.
The phone scene would be awfully cute, but I still don't really want to have to use the hospital if at all possible. I suppose the only real thing to do is wait until I get to that point and see what would work best then.
