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dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/2bONpv4:
no no no no no do NOT come up with super-sad headcanons about Kes Dameron’s father what the fuck is wrong with you
you are not going to write YET ANOTHER sidebar prequel to your sidebar prequel where you talk about Lita Dameron, Brave Activist who mostly prefers the company of women, deciding that she needs a baby, and finding a pretty boy from her former hometown to have a baby with, and him knowing he could never have more than that with her and devoting himself instead to the revolutionary cause, trying to hunt down the missing ones who were lost in the collapse of their hometown, and eventually being executed by the Empire for his activities–
no. *smacks self with rolled-up newspaper* stoppit!
(chapter six is going swimmingly, why do you ask. is that Bolt’s backstory? the people Kes’s father was looking for? ohhhhhh but that doesn’t mean I need to write it, you know? I could just allude to it.)
(oh shit that ties a lot together. DID I MEAN TO DO THIS ALL ALONG? maybe? no, I really didn’t. I honestly didn’t. But it really makes a lot of sense. Oh man, I wish I knew what I was doing, because this shit is tight.)
(It’s the scenic detours in writing that sometimes make all the difference, and I wish I knew how to get that effect without meandering around like a lost little lamb, but I don’t, I can only find these things if I’m not really looking for them.)
(also uh I’m like 150,000 words into this fucking story, why can I never figure shit like this out when I haven’t already published 150,000 words already)
yeah nobody needs another 20k words of this as-yet-unnamed dude’s vain quest for his missing kinfolk and his hopeless last holovid recorded as the Imperial soldiers came for him and hastily cached somewhere that nobody will find it–
and nobody finds it.
no no no no no do NOT come up with super-sad headcanons about Kes Dameron’s father what the fuck is wrong with you
you are not going to write YET ANOTHER sidebar prequel to your sidebar prequel where you talk about Lita Dameron, Brave Activist who mostly prefers the company of women, deciding that she needs a baby, and finding a pretty boy from her former hometown to have a baby with, and him knowing he could never have more than that with her and devoting himself instead to the revolutionary cause, trying to hunt down the missing ones who were lost in the collapse of their hometown, and eventually being executed by the Empire for his activities–
no. *smacks self with rolled-up newspaper* stoppit!
(chapter six is going swimmingly, why do you ask. is that Bolt’s backstory? the people Kes’s father was looking for? ohhhhhh but that doesn’t mean I need to write it, you know? I could just allude to it.)
(oh shit that ties a lot together. DID I MEAN TO DO THIS ALL ALONG? maybe? no, I really didn’t. I honestly didn’t. But it really makes a lot of sense. Oh man, I wish I knew what I was doing, because this shit is tight.)
(It’s the scenic detours in writing that sometimes make all the difference, and I wish I knew how to get that effect without meandering around like a lost little lamb, but I don’t, I can only find these things if I’m not really looking for them.)
(also uh I’m like 150,000 words into this fucking story, why can I never figure shit like this out when I haven’t already published 150,000 words already)
yeah nobody needs another 20k words of this as-yet-unnamed dude’s vain quest for his missing kinfolk and his hopeless last holovid recorded as the Imperial soldiers came for him and hastily cached somewhere that nobody will find it–
and nobody finds it.
