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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!?!

I am one third of the way through my minimum word requirement for scifibigbang! Woohoo!

I don't have my progress bar, because according too the library it is malicious code. So we're going to pretend, until I can put in the proper one!

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They had an interrogation, and a fight, and a make-up, and now Timmy has no pants on, but I'm not telling you why!

T's parents were both off work today. My usual weekend overnight client is visiting family for the weekend. What does this mean? It means Jessie had all day to work on the giant fic, and that I'm driving out to Lafayette in a bit to spend the night at B's, and then I'm accompanying L and his boyfriend down to Holly Beach for picnicking and fireworks and possibly drunken beach antics of some sort.

The last time L and I drank together, I taught him how to crochet and then we were accosted by the police for our suspiciousness. The time before that, I was very nearly sandwich filling of the sexy kind. There's no telling what will happen this time, but the weekend should be awesome!


Fic progress! Today, Kon argued with chickens and Tim ate sausage during an autopsy. Oh, boys!


Lookit! My little meter isn't quite so pathetic anymore! I'm pretty much exactly on track for projected length, too. Alfred/Martha keeps trying to distract me, though. I may have to write a side fic. I'm already planning a sequel.

I just signed up for the Big Bang. It's already making me nervous and fluttery, and just a little flailyhands. Help! Get ready to see a lot of this guy: wip of DOOM I should make an icon. An icon for the giant wip DOOOOOM. The poll ended up not being as much of a factor as I'd expected, but it was interesting to see that I'm apparently the only person who likes reading a whole story in one go.