When fics run wild... and husbands tick you off...

[ladydrace]

Ok, it's not the first time it's happened, but right now it annoys me. You know when you're writing a longer fic and somewhere along the way, the story just goes somewhere completely different from what you originally planned? Well my kodd (Nightcrawler/Toad for the un-iniciated)fic has done just that. Normally I simply adjust my plot accordingly, but here I had this perfect vision of an end scene, which will now never ever fit. *sigh* Maybe I could write the end scene as a sort of post script or one-shot...

And on a completely unrelated - but just as annoying - topic: Why is it that hubby always picks the absolutely worst times to talk to me? I sit for 3 hours just gaming or surfing without a word being heard. But the SECOND I dare to start typing something (fic, comment, notes, links, search words - anything!) it's like it's a cue for him to start talking! Now, not everything I type demands my full attention, but was it really a matter of life and death to interrupt my finally progessing fic-writing to tell me that this-or-this-on-failblog is hilarious?! Or start reading me this day's funny column in the newspaper? Not that I don't wanna hear it, but damn, we already have an agreement about asking before just showing/telling/reading aloud if the other is in the middle of something. Too bad hubby has selective memory.

Just even more too bad for him that I have serious mood-swings. Next time he does that, I dare not answer for the consequenses!

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Comments

[mrs-picard.livejournal.com]

If it's any comfort, my mother does the same thing. She doesn't disturb me for hours, but the moment I start typing fics, she shows up and wants to talk to me.

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just a fact of nature.

You know, like:
-When you take a bath, the phone rings.
-Cigarette smoke always drift to the only non-smoker in the room.
-When you're early for the bus it's always late, but if you're just 30 secs late, it's always on time.

Stuff like that.

[prelocandkanar.livejournal.com]

I'd go with the "fact of nature" hypothosis.

And as for that perfect end scene, go ahead and write it! Don't let it get lost. You'll use it, somehow. Maybe you'll end up modifying it for another fic. Or the post-script or one-shot you mentioned. But don't let that perfect scene escape!

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

I'll probably write it down sometime, just for my own amusement, even if it never manages to fit into a fic.

[abrandnewworld.livejournal.com]

it's just the y chromosome... it's a genetic thing.. makes them unaware and adds to the selective memory

[lady-drace.livejournal.com]

Good to know. Could very well just be my hormones making it feel more annoying than normal, but heh. Now I can blame nature.