I think I just Jossed myself
May. 17th, 2009 07:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesThe words are not flowing this weekend. I have all of 500 new words since yesterday morning. This is not because I do not have time or mental energy. This is because the story has not gone quite where I was expecting it to go, and the scene that I should be writing now has no obvious hook from where I left off two weekends ago. Yes, it is a sex scene, no, it is not a gratuitous sex scene. It is there to further the characterisation and demonstrate some of the ways in which the relationship has changed in the three years they've been married. I can't just dump it.
And even after I've arm-wrestled the draft back on track, the *next* chapter is going to find that it has nowhere to slot into. All because there was not a big family row about something after all. Or at least there wasn't one at the end of the evening. There is going to be one the next day, but that change in timing changes a lot of other things as well. I think I just Jossed myself by accident.
And no, I can't go back and rewrite the last couple of chapters to make them go the way I'd planned. It works better this way, at least for the bit already written. Now I just have to work out where to go from here.
And even after I've arm-wrestled the draft back on track, the *next* chapter is going to find that it has nowhere to slot into. All because there was not a big family row about something after all. Or at least there wasn't one at the end of the evening. There is going to be one the next day, but that change in timing changes a lot of other things as well. I think I just Jossed myself by accident.
And no, I can't go back and rewrite the last couple of chapters to make them go the way I'd planned. It works better this way, at least for the bit already written. Now I just have to work out where to go from here.
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Date: 2009-05-18 12:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-18 05:41 pm (UTC)It's to do with Joss Whedon, and it's a fanfic term. You write a fanfic story that's faithful to canon at the time you write it -- and then Whedon takes the canon storyline in a completely different direction to that which was expected, and suddenly your story has become AU (alternate universe, not canon-faithful). It happened a lot in Buffy, and Whedon was known to occasionally do it *on* *purpose* to mess with fans' heads.
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Date: 2009-05-18 06:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-18 06:49 pm (UTC)