Knots: Distance (7/12)

[extrabitter]

Part One (By Pitza)
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part SixWilson enters the lounge as quietly as possible. He’s trying to leave well enough alone, and if he can avoid talking to anybody, bonus. Nancy is finishing up charts from her shift. She ought to be home with her family by now. He supposes she’s getting double time and a half for

Comments

[anonymous]

The process by which Wilson untangles his motivations is fascinating; I'm really enjoying this. And it's beautifully written -- spare and delicate right up until it punches you.

Good luck with NaNoWriMo.

[ponks19]

i have the biggest lump in my throat i'm all choked up. (and i mean that as a compliment)

i'm absolutely loving this fic. so heart wrenching and fascinating.

each part just gets better and better as you drive deeper into their minds and emotions. looking forward to the rest of the story. i've got an idea of where you are going with it, but with previous fics i've been WAY off. i'm curious to see how you wrap it up.

[anonymous]

Wow. Although after two chapters of Wilson's POV I'm curious about House and his reaction to Cuddy's decisions.

[allybally123]

I don't know what to say since so many different things are running through my head when reading this fic but I just want you to know that I think you're doing a wonderful job and I enjoy the emotion that you put in the characters. I'm looking forward to the next chapter very much!

[extrabitter]

Thanks for sticking with the story. If I'm very disciplined and very lucky, I can finish part 8 by the weekend. I haven't had much luck with that kind of estimating, given that I wanted to have the whole thing done a week ago.

I hope it holds together as a finished piece. I keep going back to look things up to make sure I haven't left too many unanswered questions. Maybe that's part of my slowdown.

[allybally123]

You're doing a wonderful job so I look forward to the weekend for another post.

It's holding together so far and I have faith in your when it comes to this story. I'm sure the ending will keep everything together.

[pwcorgigirl]

I am, once again, floored by the beauty of this series. That role reversal, with House being the one concerned that Simons died and Wilson being callous, just goes straight to the heart. And I love how you show Wilson pulling himself together to help his patient. We know he's not irredeemable, but he hasn't quite seen it himself

[extrabitter]

This part was, again, very difficult. I had no clue where I was going and I had to start it three different times. I'm kind of surprised it's coherent at all because the final version uses parts from all three. It didn't feel right until I wrote the last line, and then I knew that I had it.

There were times over the two weeks I worked on this part when I was pretty sure the story had fallen apart, that I had written myself into a corner, and really screwed myself with the alternating POV setup and the parallel timelines.

I swear, after I'm done I'm going to write a story about puppies and rainbows. It will be "See Spot run in the meadow. Look, Fluffy is chasing a butterfly! Spot and Fluffy are friends!" Totally linear. Writing the emotional stuff is cake compared to sticking to a tight structure.

[pwcorgigirl]

I can't imagine this with any other structure than what you've given it. When you point it out, I can see how murderously difficult it's been to do it, but when I'm reading it, I'm not aware of it. And that's a sign of very, very good writing. The structure gives the story a focus and a forward motion, and the immediacy takes away the slight comfort zone you'd have with past tense, the arm's length safety of "was" instead of "is," if that makes any sense.