InsaneJournal

Rambling about old fics...
So, having been brought back to my attention by various recent conversations, I've decided to pick up Running again as a writing project. I've spent the past couple days editing the parts I had already written, and will probably post them up on ffxii_fic pretty soon, so I wouldn't suggest reading much from the link I just posted. It's almost the same, but the new one has a few more paragraphs and a few less typos.

It amazes me how much my writing style has changed since I wrote that (largely due to heavy influence from logistika_nyx and sarasa_cat, wheras my style in this particular fic probably shows the most influence from Terry Prachett). Going back through it, I discovered that it was not nearly as bad as my mind had made it seem after I had dropped it the first time. I think it was more that it was getting into a semi-pointless area of amusing fluff and I was having trouble working up a conflict, therefore it really felt like characterization was getting lost. The last chapter I wrote will need some serious reworking, but up until then, I was surprised by how much of my revisions ended up just being adding a comma or picking a different word. Though I have to say that when I reread it, Balthier's hi-I'm-a-17-year-old-boy-ness in that last chapter amuses me to no end. And the travesty that is Chapter 16 is still a travesty, but far too amusing to trash.

But things really need to get darker in this, and quickly. Amusingly enough, this leads me to the conclusion that a new Balthier breakdown is in order. I'm not obsessed. Really. (I am a horrible person). But I've given Balthier over a year worth of mostly happy and carefree, and I know that's not how his life goes. In the next five years of his life, he needs to get to the point where he can calmly deliver the line, "Relax, it's only a corpse." I have yet to decide whether Ba'Gamnan comes into the picture in the scope of this story or not.

I've also been oddly tempted to write a story from Ba'Gamnan's point of view, just for the hell of it.

Alright, let's see what I can do with this...