BB Draft Zero

[loaded_march]

I am calling it a monstrous, horribly bad Draft Zero, and I feel horrible for my betas and my artist, because they're going to have to read it in this condition, but I am sick, sick, sick of the BB fic right now, and I need a break from it.

The Draft Zero wordcount?  133,654.

Comments

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity (and that's all it is cuz I don't want you to change AT ALL EVER) have you ever written a short story? ;-)

You are sick of your BB, I was just plain sick so work halted on mine for a while. Now I'm back in it and I can't imagine how long it's gonna be when it's done because I am at around 25k and not even 1/3 through! It's already the longest one-shot I've ever written. *shakes head* Maybe you are rubbing off on me? *hopes*

[loaded-march.livejournal.com]

I actually have written an original fiction short story. It was 8,000 words.

Um.

No, I know I have a short horror flash fiction story floating around somewhere. That's 250 words. I think.

25K!!! And, awesome! I am turning everyone into word count monsters!

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

So, definitely not a master of the drabble or ficlet, eh? Those things can be hard! Though some of my favorite of my own works are under 1k.

I did do a true drabble challenge last year (that never did get posted by the organizer the way she originally said it would) based off of a translation of Gawain and the Green Knight. At the end of each stanza there was a four line rhyme and there were like 100 through the whole thing. She split them up among us and I got 5 of them. The challenge was then to write a drabble based of the couplets with BBC Merlin characters and each one had to be 100 words or less. It was fun but it really was a challenge to condense my words so tightly. While I am not nearly as prolific as you are, I still tend to be pretty damn wordy and this forced me to do away with anything extraneous. Though we never did get a master post, I went ahead and posted mine anyway cuz I enjoyed it and I didn't think my contribution came out half bad despite never having written anything so short in my life! (As you know, even my comments and responses tend to be overly long. *looks around* Case in point!)

[loaded-march.livejournal.com]

*cough* no, you're not wordy at all...

But, yeah, no. I envy people who can write short, I really, really do. My problem, I think, is that my plots are just BIG. It doesn't matter if they are simple and straightforward, I end up writing BIG -- the characters, the side stories, the background... It just keeps growing and growing and growing.

And growing.