#writer bitching

[perfectionistkilling-me]

Y'all. I wrote a whole medical subplot for.my fanfic. That subplot existed ENTIRELY to justify Meredith holding a teeny tiny heart while standing there in awe of Addison's surgical precision.

I needed to know the name of a specific artery for ONE LINE of dialogue.

3 Pub Med articles later I realise THIS CONDITION IS ONLY EVER TREATED WITH LAZER SURGERY.

So now do I bullshit the medicine (something I was so proud of not doing because even though I know fuck all about OBGYN I have enough basics medical knowledge to write stuff that makes sense)

Or do I rewrite an entire subplot to be about a totally different medical condition.

[ghost-chance]

Things I’d rather be doing than writing Kimber Bryant:

Writing anyone but Kimber Bryant

Writing smut

READING smut

Reading horribly written smut

Bathing an angry cat

Having bamboo skewers jammed under my nails

Enduring a root canal

Gouging my own eyes out with my fingernails

Seriously. There’s a reason I killed this character off. There isn’t much I’d rather be doing LESS THAN writing Kimber Bryant...unfortunately, her time to shine is up and I can’t pawn her off on anyone else.

::SIGH:: Kimber...why couldn’t you just STAY dead?

[formerlylordki]

I always title fanfiction something like "wtf am i doing" or "oh fuck not again" and I feel like that says a lot about me.

[dammitkoi]

Star Wars is not science fiction no matter how many space ships and lasers it has in it. It's a space opera, an epic fantasy, a fairy tale. Space ships ==! science fiction. If you are going to use genre titles at all, PLEASE USE THEM CORRECTLY. (Sorry, as a writer who spends days sitting in libraries reading books and looking up articles, going as far as watching gross het porn, to see how laws of physics work in certain environments and how I can devise plausible methods of working around them for the scenes I want in stories, I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE ATTACH THE WORD 'SCIENCE' TO ANYTHING GEORGE LUCAS EVER TOUCHED) (And hey, I will give leeway to writers who need to invent 'bullshitium" or "whathefucktonium" to make space travel SUCK LESS*, but The Force is MAGIC and good vs evil stories are FANTASY - that's not inherently bad; i like the Harry Potter movies, too, but The Last Unicorn had more scientific basis than any of the Star Wars films) * see also http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5985632798674798186 <-- Robert Capelletto's "To Oblivion" based on HP Lovecraft's "Ex Oblivione"