WIP challenge - day 16 check-in

[lacygrey]

Hi there. How's progress on the fic today?

Poll #7829

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Write
6 (66.7%)

Edit
0 (0.0%)

Get inspired
1 (11.1%)

Read
0 (0.0%)

Beta for someone else
0 (0.0%)

Catch up with circle/FL
2 (22.2%)

Do something totally different
0 (0.0%)

For discussion: Do you find that complex plots are more difficult to write than characters' emotions: Do you favor storyline over slash/romance)? Do you think reader's do? Is is possible to find a happy medium?

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[lacygrey]

I was so pleased with myself yesterday that I'd managed to post the check-in post properly - with title and poll - that I went and forgot to reply to it myself. I had, after a big printing session, found that I'd got 15K or so (well on the way to the 20K challenge - great), but no proper ending to the story. Then today I had an epiphany:

A meta idea I'd had running around my head for ages really suits the POV of the character in the final scene I was stuggling with.

Now I just need to write it...

Today's discussion topic (plot vs. romance) was inspired by some feedback I got to an offhand question I asked on another comm. The reactions were all sort of 'plot is difficult', 'romance is more popular', 'all you need is love' and so on. In fact, I was about to about to counter by pointing out that romance is hard too when I realised that (1) perhaps this is only true for some of us and (2) that the Ware-Bunny of Inle was tapping me on the shoulder about this very divide.

So, I think that meta (comm discussions included) and fic can interact to make a superb source of inspiration.

As for the Ware-Bunny, if he continues to make a nuisance of himself, he'll get sent to the kink meme.

[jagnikjen]

In reality, romance novels--the really good emotional ones--are more than fluff and easily overcome situations. I've been a member of the world's largest romance writing organization for eight years and I can tell you - writing a good, real (publishable) romance novel isn't as easy as many people seem to think. It's really not PWP/porn or fluffy stuff.

--I'm not really saying you think this, just in general to the responses you got. I think in the fanfic world, romance as a genre is *typically* more fluff and fun. Or maybe that's just my romance attempts. :)