Fic Update: "No Direction Home"

[mark_asphodel]

 No, it's not my fe_contest  entry.  That's stalled out at 437 words because I got sidetracked by one of the minor characters and went off on a separate tangent entirely.  

This is 100% stress-relief on my part.  I don't even know if it's good; I do know that the music I listened to while writing it (big sweeping power ballads) was irredeemably awful, not to mention a far cry from my usual diet of Leonard Cohen, John Cale, and Elvis Costello.  I guess it's technically a part of the Unified Kingdom fic-verse, as I can't see any telltale signs that it's not.  But it's a "missing moments" kind of story, and you either go for that sort of thing or you massively hate it. 

OK.  Back to real work.

Comments

[samuraiter.livejournal.com]

Another story to add to my queue of things I need to read and review. :-) And stories done as stress relief can come out to be quite awesome. Emotional intensity tends to seep into writing, I find.

Also a Leonard Cohen fan here, but the only song of his that I use for writing music is his version of Everybody Knows. Love it.

[mark-asphodel.livejournal.com]

Emotional intensity tends to seep into writing, I find.

Very true, but being emotionally wrapped up in a 'fic can make it harder to determine whether or not it makes any sense. Especially if the main character is your own "pet"-- then it's Canon Sue ahoy and all that.

"... his version of Everybody Knows"

I should do a breakdown sometime of the music that "accompanies" my various stories. I was big into the album "Everybody Knows" comes from last year. This year I'm more about New Skin For The Old Ceremony and Various Positions.