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liz_marcs ([personal profile] liz_marcs) wrote2007-11-16 06:28 pm
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Bloody hell...

It appears that a change in POV does work to resolve a problem.

Well, I knew that.

But it's hard to tear apart something that's been on your hard drive for a good six months, even if you weren't entirely happy with it.
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[identity profile] crowgirl13.livejournal.com 2007-11-16 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
*pets*
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[personal profile] jebbypal 2007-11-16 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I SOOOO feel your pain.

[identity profile] agilebrit.livejournal.com 2007-11-16 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Ayup.

I once had to excise an entire character from a story to make it work. I was trying to work it into the framework of canon, with the whole "Lindsey posing as Doyle after Spike got corporeal again" thing, and it took a year of the damn thing sitting there and jeering at me before I realized that, hey, if it was actually Doyle in a one-shot cameo, the story would work a lot better.

The story was finished within four days of me doing that.

Yup. Lots o' headdesking going on there. I feel ya.

[identity profile] nidoking.livejournal.com 2007-11-16 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I hate having to revisit stories months or years later, particularly if I need to find things wrong with them and fix them. It's either too much or not enough effort.

[identity profile] hobgoblinn.livejournal.com 2007-11-17 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
That's funny. I used that very ploy yesterday to try to break out of a block (and pad wordcount, of course.) And do you know [livejournal.com profile] mistful? She's the reason I came up with that ploy in the first place, because she'd just posted a mediation of sorts on it in her journal that day.

If you don't know her, you should. Go check her out now. Her posts on her life and becoming a professional novelist are wonderful. I can't recommend her highly enough. (And I can't wait to read her professional fiction. Her Harry Potter "Coda to an Epilogue" is one of the best stories I have ever read. Certainly one of the funniest. Here's a link: http://hobgoblinn.livejournal.com/35950.html)

[identity profile] denny-dc.livejournal.com 2007-11-17 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
between your icon (which I love) and your words, I so know what you're going through, and it gave me a good chuckle. Sorry for that at your expense...but at least it's going better now, right?

[identity profile] madripoor-rose.livejournal.com 2007-11-17 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah. I once wrote twenty three pages in the wrong POV. I hate it when that happens.
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