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Apparently rewatching all these episodes to take notes for pulling clips makes it easier to write fic. WHO KNEW. I'm covering up my ineptness at plot with lots and lots of dialogue, and trying to remember that the main character is still at this point in the narrative a total jerk (and--far more difficult for me to write--just not that smart compared to the people around him), and also FUCK plot, I am so bad at it. There's a big escape-from-the-center-of-enemy-territory scene coming up, and I'm pretty sure I'm just going to be like, "Somehow they made it out! Then, they had Feelings." Considering that the story as a whole is basically "dear canon, your entire plot arc and missing second season: let me fix that for you," this is probably going to be a continuing problem.

Why is it always the unlikeliest shit that gets me back on the creativity train? Did I produce like this for XMFC or Captain America? No I did not. (Well, there was the 13,000 words of orgy for XMFC, but that wasn't nearly so easy and also mostly just spinning my wheels with endless porn.) But for Glee, and now for Kings, my brain explodes. Actually it's probably the canon gay factor, mystery solved.

just get me to the next exclamation point

I've just realized that my approach to writing plot is to basically treat it like a video game. "Okay, we start with them trapped in the heart of an enemy base. They have to find a way out of the room, talk to a local for clues, loot some bodies, and make it to the other end of the map to reach the next plot objective. How are we going to do this?"

Which I guess is better than freezing up and closing the document forever, but it feels rather charmless.

Okay, no more writing posts until...*checks calendar* Thursday, I promise. As always, anyone who wanted to read what I have so far and confirm to me that it exists in the world and is not entirely without merit would have my eternal gratitude.

(Also as always, I'm starting to talk like the TV I watch. Thank god for the corrective, less high-flown influence of Dead Like Me with my mom every evening, or this would be worse than when I binge-read every Sherlock Holmes story and talked like a badly-written Victorian for weeks. Let's not even get into what happens when I watch British TV.)