Oh, the hatred
Aug. 15th, 2006 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanaiseI have now printed out my story, and it is taunting me with promises of how bad it will be. For example, yesterday I wrote part in third. Today while opening it up to print, I looked at that person's POV earlier in the story. Not third. This is why Drafts are allowed to suck. Because they will.
I am still glad I finished it--it's *long!* even bad as it is--but I have feelings that say I will be working very hard to make it not suck by thursday. Because, oh the suckage. I currently hate it. It is worst story ever. I would leave it in a basket at a church, but no one will ever love this story, so it may as well stay with me and grow up to be bitter and unloved like the rest of them. (Actually, my recent odds of selling a new story are quite good--the last two I finished, I sold. The problem is currently the finishing.)
The bottom of page three? that's where it switches from first to third, and makes me write the rest of his POV in third. That, at least, is easy enough to fix. I have gotten quite good at fixing POVs due to my total inability to stay in the same one the whole story (for some reason, I always *always* write story notes in the wrong POV.).
What I'm most worried about is the last 3 pages--namely, I suspect they're about 2K too early in the story. They may have other problems, but I think others will tell me that I"m missing the important part of the story. I'm also missing a point to this guy--he's one of the main characters. THe other one dies, but I don't know how he changes, and I think that's probably important too. (Also, I kinda hate the end the way I have it now, and I can't tell if it's because I don't like killing people off, or if it's because I killed her off but could have gotten a better ending some other way.
I am still glad I finished it--it's *long!* even bad as it is--but I have feelings that say I will be working very hard to make it not suck by thursday. Because, oh the suckage. I currently hate it. It is worst story ever. I would leave it in a basket at a church, but no one will ever love this story, so it may as well stay with me and grow up to be bitter and unloved like the rest of them. (Actually, my recent odds of selling a new story are quite good--the last two I finished, I sold. The problem is currently the finishing.)
The bottom of page three? that's where it switches from first to third, and makes me write the rest of his POV in third. That, at least, is easy enough to fix. I have gotten quite good at fixing POVs due to my total inability to stay in the same one the whole story (for some reason, I always *always* write story notes in the wrong POV.).
What I'm most worried about is the last 3 pages--namely, I suspect they're about 2K too early in the story. They may have other problems, but I think others will tell me that I"m missing the important part of the story. I'm also missing a point to this guy--he's one of the main characters. THe other one dies, but I don't know how he changes, and I think that's probably important too. (Also, I kinda hate the end the way I have it now, and I can't tell if it's because I don't like killing people off, or if it's because I killed her off but could have gotten a better ending some other way.
