And then the 10th Doctor and Neal Caffrey ran a con together. The end.

[lowkey]

So my morning started off pretty good, seeing this clip of David Tennant in the upcoming Fright Night.

So that was good BUT THEN I saw the trailer for In Time and was all like "Holy Crap! Justin Timberlake actually doesn't look like a douche! Also: Matt Bomer and Cillian Murphy? And also also: SO MANY TIME PUNS. And general sexiness in a dystopian future predicated on the preservation of youth and beauty? Sure, that's fine, too."

But now for some "fanfic is serious business" time.



So I'm really enjoying my time-traveling fixit fic, but I keep running into this problem where the most recent thing I write is really good, far better in quality than what I wrote before. So I keep wanting to go back and rewrite the original parts. I've never been in this pickle before! Most of the things I have written have ended before getting over, say, 2000 words.

WHAT DO I DO INTERNET FRIENDS

Comments

[mako_lies]

Actually, there is one reason I would probably recommend going back and re-writing something before you've finished the story - if you've written something that really contradicts what happens in the early part of the story. It happens that way, sometimes. I'd recommend going back and fixing continuity errors, but everything else, I'd recommend leaving until revision time.

[lowkey]

That's an excellent point. Given that this is a time travel fic, it sorta amounts to a series of vignettes that only tangentially relate to each other; i.e. the continuity of one timeline does not impinge on another.

THAT SAID some of my "must have" scenes have matured and grown (which is a good thing) and in doing so, that affects the scenes around them (which may then require further revisions). arrrrgghghghghghghghghg

[lowkey]

Also, as I mentioned to nal_rene, alot of my "revisions" amount to "wholesale recreation." So it's difficult to tell when I have forward momentum or not.