I was writing a 20K minimum challenge fic that was a reworking of the plot of His Girl Friday as a Green Hornet fic, and I couldn't get the various tensions right. In the film, Walter knows from the start that he wants Hildy to give up on the idea of marrying her fiance and come back to him, but since the fic had Britt and Lenore running the Hornet operation and Kato the one who didn't want anything to do with it anymore, the dynamic didn't work. I was well into the fic and unhappy with how forced it felt, when I had an epiphany: Britt doesn't want Kato to come back either. He's angry that Kato left. Suddenly it worked. Britt and Kato fighting and Lenore trying to get them in line is a lot more interesting, because every party is active and pulling in different directions.
So writing, at best, is like that: you figure out how it all connects and harmonizes, and that's a great feeling.
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Date: December 15th, 2013 02:03 pm (UTC)I was writing a 20K minimum challenge fic that was a reworking of the plot of His Girl Friday as a Green Hornet fic, and I couldn't get the various tensions right. In the film, Walter knows from the start that he wants Hildy to give up on the idea of marrying her fiance and come back to him, but since the fic had Britt and Lenore running the Hornet operation and Kato the one who didn't want anything to do with it anymore, the dynamic didn't work. I was well into the fic and unhappy with how forced it felt, when I had an epiphany: Britt doesn't want Kato to come back either. He's angry that Kato left. Suddenly it worked. Britt and Kato fighting and Lenore trying to get them in line is a lot more interesting, because every party is active and pulling in different directions.
So writing, at best, is like that: you figure out how it all connects and harmonizes, and that's a great feeling.