Is anyone else still doing battle with their RSS? Or is everyone else a lot more sensible than I am? I have two scenes and the epilogue left and I’ve already written a chapter today and I’m tired. This is legit me right now, why did I write so much other stuff in November and leave RSS so late?
#to be fair i didn’t know it was going to be such a monster fic#i’m not sure if it will break 30k or not but it’s going to be close
I want to make a cover to go with my RSS fic but there is an extreme shortage of good short hair Gold pics. I was going to photoshop one onto a different photo of Gold but then getting the angles and shadows right is driving me crazy. Plus short hair Gold looks either sad or angry, and that doesn’t work all that well for the fic /headdesk
I could make an aesthetic but then I got some inspiration for the fic from an aesthetic in the first place, so doing a different one seems a bit weird. Which leaves the obvious option of drawing something like I did for Rumbelle is Hope but quite frankly I just don’t have the time. The fic isn’t finished yet as it is, but as my writing willpower decided to bugger off for the day, I figured I would make progress on something.
Any suggestions? I want to do something because the fic is far too long to post on tumblr, and I’d like to have something more than the AO3 link to post. My person is lovely and I want to do something nice for them.
Wow that’s a really interesting question. I was a bit stuck on how to answer it, until I saw that there was just ‘fic’ hiding small behind scene and dialogue. I have songs for fics, but nothing particularly comes to mind for a specific scene or piece of dialogue.
Fall All Over Again – get it’s title from a song, which is funnily enough called Fall All Over again by Dan Hill. I first heard this song in a fan music video for Jack/Irina from Alias. It doesn’t fit Lacey and Rumple/Gold exactly but there are some poignant parts. Plus that song gives me feelings, I don’t know why.
I Love the Way – also gets it’s title from a song. The full title of which is I Love the Way You Love Me by Boyzone. I’m showing my age a bit with that one, but it really fit the verse, and said everything I wanted about Belle and Gold’s relationship. I was listening to it, and wishing that I could just condense that song into a title, hence why I tried. It’s not a brilliant title, but that’s because I wished I could use the whole song.
I’ve used song titles, as fic titles, for various other fics but the songs aren’t necessarily important, the title just had the image I wanted.
*clears throat* Unaccustomed though I am to admitting fault, I am forced to agree. I could definitely have handled that better. My timing was atrocious, well-intentioned but *snorts* we all know how intentions are meaningless. I’ve just discovered I have Belle’s shoes to return. I will knock and return them and apologize for my poor timing. Undoubtedly, that will be the last we see of one another.
#of course it’s not the last you’ll see of one another#oh gold you have no idea
I don’t know what to think right now. Yesterday was just all too much.
#I know not a very good answer but I don’t want to spoil the next chapter#I promise chapter eight will happen as soon as possible#I just need to finish my RSS fic first
Synopsis: Belle French lives alone and she likes it that way. She’s lived alone ever since the terrible car accident which killed her mother and claimed her eyesight. Belle spends her days painting, in complete solitude, until one day she wakes up and hears movement outside. Somebody has moved into the cottage next door. She had grown comfortable in her solitary existence until Mr Gold crashes into her life. Now her future is uncertain, like a blank canvas, waiting for her to apply the paint and decide what kind of story she is creating.
Note: I’m going to echo Gold here – intentions are meaningless. This should have been updated a week ago last Friday but life happened. Anyway, in this chapter there’s a prompt from @rowofstars about Gold resisting getting called back into work which has rather unfortunate consequences. I’m intending to post Chapter Eight next Tuesday to fix it. Anyway, in the meantime – enjoy!
Banner by the incredibly amazing @rowofstars thank you so much! 🙂
Belle bit her
lip and wished the ground would swallow her up. She obviously couldn’t see
Nick’s expression, and she couldn’t deduce anything from his breathing. She
really wished he would say something as she was really regretting her honesty.
Nick had been honest with her, and it had felt like the right thing to do, to
admit that she liked him. However, the spiraling possibilities were really
starting to scare her, and she needed him to say something.
“Nick?” Belle
whispered.
“Sorry
sweetheart, you caught me off guard. I never expected … I never would have
dreamed,” Gold struggled.
“Dad,” Neal
called hesitantly. Belle tensed automatically and felt Nick’s hand curl around
her own. “Is everything ok?”
“Everything’s
fine,” Gold called back quickly. “We can talk about it later. If you could
close the patio doors …”
“And get back
to the garden,” Neal finished. “Alright.”
Like I said in another post, I’ve gone back and revised this chapter thanks to some amazing feedback I had. There’s a net gain of almost 750 words but I did change some stuff as well. Hopefully it makes more sense now 🙂
UGH. I knew Gold was going to fuck up. Things were too good. Neal was great, but this is really one of those things where he needed to caution Gold more than support him. Unfortunately… now it’s all worse. 🙁
Poor Belle. *HOLDS HER FOREVER*
MAKE IT BETTER, SAM. PLEASE????
This is where I could quote A&E and say “it’s always darkest before the dawn” but I would rather not get beaten up 🙂 Heh, I am going to fix it I promise! I just need to get RSS done, Chapter 8 is my first priority after that. Thank you so much for your wonderful comments *hugs you*
Fixed my timeline problems! Fixed my POV problems! Fixed ALL the problems! I still have a metric ton to write but now I’m on the right track, I feel so much better. I’m feeling a bit like RSS is a boss fight, and I just got into phase two 🙂
#i love it when it starts to come together#i still have a scary amount to write but i fixed the problems#that makes me feel so much better
Nobody panic but there’s only 10 DAYS LEFT FOR RSS!!!!
Oh who am I kidding, I am so panicking. I have maybe 1/3rd of it written, possibly more like 25%, I’m rubbish at guesstimating length. I have timeline problems, POV problems, I’m only 6.5k in and Gold and Belle have only spoken once. Actually 25% might be being generous, it’s probably less and I need to rework some of that because hello I got problems!
You know there are times when I have to make a choice. I always hate these moments because I want it all, I want to do it all, I don’t want to have to choose. Why not everything? Because I managed my time poorly in November, and I wrote too much fix-it fic and not enough WIP’s basically. I keep telling myself “oh you can catch-up later” but I’ve got to the point now where I’m scared that I won’t be able to do that.
I have almost finished Chapter Three of Fall All Over Again. Writing anything other than RSS at this point seems crazy but I don’t want to break my Tuesday streak if I can help it. Writing the 1k I need for that chapter, is more sensible though than writing the almost 4k I need for Painting Layers of Love. However, I will have to see what my RSS progress is by Monday. If I’m still this panicked then I might have to break my streak. In that case I will reblog my Rumbelle Christmas fanfic that I wrote in the summer. It is at least Christmas time now 🙂
#freaking out here a little bit#i didn’t panic this much for rcij#but then that fic didn’t balloon into an epic
Haha maybe! That is a stunning picture. Perhaps it’s more at the other end, where the tree line is, because they walked between the field and the trees once. *hugs* thank you so much for thinking of my fic! 🙂
I need to enlist somebody to beat me over the head.
Self I don’t care how much the AU wish world is making you want to write “Rule Number Three” your Enchanted Forest Rumbelle/Swanfire AU, you are not allowed! Right now the priority is RSS and Painting Layers of Love. Then you need to finish all your other WIP’s before starting anything new.
Repeat after me self *dangerous tone* “before starting anything new.”
I’m actually really pleased the hiatus is as long as normal. I need the three months to get some fics finished.
Mr. Gold can be a strong motivator… in many ways.
Indeed he can.
@still-searching47, I feel your pain, my dear. *gets out cheerleading pom poms* You can do it!
@rowofstars I’m jealous of your gif finding skills, that is awesome!
Also, thank you both. Gold is definitely a good motivator heh and yeah most things will get written eventually. It’s just a matter of butt in chair, hands on keys and focusing. It’s the last part, the focusing that I struggle with sometimes but I’m loads better than I used to be, so practice, practice 🙂
Do you have a prompt doc or folder? Just file it away. #Focus
Ah the elusive focus heh 🙂 Yeah I do have a doc and it has … I’ve lost count of how many ideas on it. Probably more than I’ll ever manage to write because I generate new ideas quicker than I can write them. Actually this idea has been on my list for a very long time. It was the second idea I ever had for Once fanfic.
What’s happened is that in the six months I’ve been writing fanfic for Once, it’s slid down the priority list as new ideas came in that took precedence. This wishworld Enchanted Forest AU, has just sparked the idea again and made it zoom to the top of the pile.
I did think that after I finished my WIP’s my next fanfic would be GoldenLace Bonnie and Clyde (I was going to do that for this months Monthly Rumbelling smut prompt but I don’t think I’ll have time), or the Hustle/Leverage AU (just because I do love this idea), but now I’m pretty certain it’s going to be the Enchanted Forest Rumbelle/Swanfire AU.
This is why I’m thankful for the hiatus. A good chunk of my words last month went on Fix-it fics because I’d watch episodes and then need to fix them.
