Jackalopes

[ardwynna_m]

I was in the middle of Chapter Two in the Path rewrite, doing something about the very stiff and formal way I phrased everything back then, when one thing made me think of another thing, which in turn led to another other thing, which birthed the plotbunny for a prequel. In the course of minutes that plotbunny achieved full blown jackalope status

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[lenine2]

I forgive you!

[ardwynna_m]

I do feel a little bit better about this.

[lenine2]

By the way, Path was the first Sephiroth/Aeris fic I read. The concept was new to me then, since it was before Crisis Core, and nearly everything I had read (that wasn't slash) was Cloud/Aeris.

[ardwynna_m]

Wow. I wrote somebody else's 'Irony of Fate' (my first Aeris/Seph). That hits one of my main concerns the rewrite. I look at the original version and think the wording is stiff, the characterization is inconsistent and the action is questionable but people liked it anyway, and here I am practically tearing it to shreds. What if the new version doesn't strike the same chord? Maybe all those flaws I see are what made it accessible. But I want to finish it and I don't think I can if the beginning and end are so terribly different. For better or worse, I'm going ahead. Hopefully there'll be no more jackalopes waiting in the wings.

[madcap_minstrel]

I've got the same worries with my own re-write. Can't let the "what-if"s dictate your story's progress, though, unless it's a "what-if" story to begin with...which, technically...EVERYONE'S is...
I'm getting a little too deep here. Time to make a sandwich or something.

[madcap_minstrel]

One question: Will Angeal's ghost ever make it into the picture? Maybe give Sephiroth a two-for-one deal in the nagging conscience? After all, Angeal's even more suited for that type of thing than Zack.

[ardwynna_m]

I haven't actually decided yet. Zack shows up for the obvious "You stole my girl!" angle, and it's partly an issue of who Seph's twisted subconscious feels like letting in.