The Dirty Energy Source

[heavensqueen]

Do you want to make a spreadsheet about spreadsheets?
Do you still need to figure out what two other fandoms you should request beside the only one you really want fic for?
Or are you trolling ALL the letter posts for placeholders, just so you can write those people some nice, dry coal?

We want to know all about it.

Comments

Re: Writing

[(Anonymous)]

I'm plotting out a story idea and I'm stuck on who's POV I want to tell it from. :/

A is the POV character in canon and most of the fic is told from A's POV. I wanted to switch things up and tell it from B's POV*, but there is some background detail that I'm worried I won't be able to fit in naturally/comfortably. Maybe this will solve itself when I'm actually writing but I'm still worried about getting 1/3 of the way through the fic and realizing I just can't fit it in, so I'll have to rewrite it from A's POV.

Advice? Should I just risk it? Not to big of a deal to rework something two months before it's even due. I'll be sad to lose the B's POV novelty factor (the letter mentions B being their favorite!) but if it makes for a better story, it'll be worth it.

* not talking about first person. I mean it in a third person, limited POV way.

Re: Writing

[(Anonymous)]

How long a fic are we talking about? If it's 5K or less, I'd barge ahead. If it's bigger, I'd do more thinking/planning as in How important is the detail? How could B plausibly discover it?

Re: Writing

[(Anonymous)]

It's gonna be long.

B would have to hear the detail from A (probably through A complaining?) which is completely plausible. Another option is that C comes into the picture and drops the detail bomb as a threat/one upsmanship thing, which is in character for them.

There are ways to impart the detail (it's key to the drama of the story and it's what will eventually need to be resolved so that A/B and C can be happy) that are fine, but having it introducted from A's POV would feel a lot more natural. It's something that if I were doing a fic/kink meme fill I would mentioned upfront in the authors notes so that I didn't have to hash it out.

I suppose I could do one POV shift really early on to A's POV in order to reveal the detail if I don't like how it comes to light from B's? I really don't want to, but the option is always there, righr? :/

Re: Writing

[(Anonymous)]

You could shift POVs, although from what you've described, having C drop the information sounds like the most organic possibility.