Second wind!

[iesika]

I bit the bullet, last night, and decided not to try keeping Close To Home (my Tim/Kon for scifibigbang ) canon-compliant. I'll probably introduce certain things (I'm keeping Kon with Cassie, when this starts, for example) but New Things keep causing me problems, and the time-line is confusing me sooo much. Kon took the wrong science class! Tim's comic is all out of order and intriguing/confusing! Will Bruce be back by spring? Will Tim and Dick have Resolved Their Issues? 

It felt like a huge load off my shoulders, actually, so I was able to sit down and spend a few hours working out a much better outline, with some changes, and dialog/notation for some of the more important scenes. I'm setting myself the rather ambitious but necessary goal of finishing a rough by the end of October, so that I can edit and also decide if I'm going to smush the whole thing together or actually leave it as three fics (this may come down to a time thing). The Ma Kent/Alfred still gets to be a side fic, though, either way.

None of the rest of this post is likely to make sense except to the two people who have read significant portions of the in-progress draft.

I've decided what to do with Cassie, finally. That's always the biggest challenge in a believable fic where one of the characters is already in a relationship. I didn't want to just ignore Cassie, and I didn't want to bastardize her, or Kon, so I went with the third option: I made everybody jerks! So now Cassie is a little tiny bit clingy and bitter but gets to be the unheard voice of reason, Kon is more than a little dense and way too trusting, and Tim is quietly manipulative and a little insane. Feel free to argue with my characterization, but I don't think I'm straying too far from the status quo, here. I'm now actually kind of looking forward to the confrontation I was dreading, but not as much as I'm looking forward to some of the Kon/ OC interactions coming up. I'm kind of fighting not to write this out of order, because I'm afraid I'll never get back to the mother's interrogation and the funeral if I let Kon skip ahead to being a Big Damned Hero. Except, for once, it won't be Kon being the hero...it will be Conner Kent.

I'm almost past the part of the story that's difficult and not as fun to write! Only one more infodump! After that, there will only be subtle clues in trickles, at least until the next major twist... And also wacky high school shenanigans! Unrequited crushes! Disapproving Superman! More Ma Kent! And a really awful school dance! Oh, and, you know, the plot. With the murders and the mystery and stuff.

I think I also need to sit down and determine exactly how many plot-lines and character arcs this thing is going to have.

ETA: I think I've got 12 sub-plots. OMG WHAT AM I DOING!?!

Comments

[glymr]

I just want to say, I can't wait to read this story!

[museofspeed.livejournal.com]

This mostly sounds pretty good, but...

Feel free to argue with my characterization

*argues with characterization*

Look, I appreciate that you're trying to stay close to canon. But if you're going to write Tim/Kon, please don't start it out Kon/Cassie. Or if you do, have it only mention it as something that happened in the past. Have Cassie have moved on. He was dead for a long time. But I find it extremely hard to believe the Kon in Adventure Comics #2 would ever break up with Cassie, and Cassie as "clingy" and "bitter?" You're making my Young Justice loving heart hurt.

Admittedly, Cassie has been written extremely poorly in the comics lately too, but nnngh. Not an excuse.

Clear that up, though, and this could be good. I wish you luck!

[faile-neume.livejournal.com]

I think it was a good idea not to make it canon compliant, because I could see how much trouble it was going to cause you and how stuck you'd be when waiting for new issues to come out and all the timeline nonsense.

But I'm glad that it's going okay so far and I can't wait to read more.

[caerfree.livejournal.com]

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