raspberryhunter

Why am I so obsessed with this fic? Why?

...I don't know how anyone writes actual novels. When this is done, it'll be 30,000 words and will have taken over my life for five months (well, except for the couple of weeks I went and wrote SGU fic instead). And I still would never have got it into the condition it's in (which -- I'm proud of it, don't get me wrong, but it clearly could have been twice as long if I'd been willing to expand the subplots, and there are definitely places where I can see the arc could have been worked out better, and a couple of Idiot Balls despite myself) if it weren't that my recipient has been writing me a really nice feedback comment on every chapter.

Maybe it gets easier once you've done it for a while? Because OMG this is a fanfic (what I mean is, there's quite a lot of backstory-characterization-setting that is assumed, that I didn't have to DO), and only 30k, and STILL I cannot even tell you how many drafts these chapters went through, how many times I had to rewrite some of the scenes. Let's just say: a lot.

Or maybe I just have a shorter attention span than people who write novels? Because I don't think I could do this for more than five months. Anyway, I have a lot more appreciation for novel-writers now!

Title: The Best Chance (WIP; Chapters 7-11 of 16)
Fandom: Once Upon a Time (TV)
Rating: PG
Spoilers: All of Season 1
Warnings: No major warnings.
Characters: Emma, Baelfire, Henry, Regina, Mary Margaret, David Nolan, Mr. Gold
Pairings: Principal pairings are non-romantic parental-filial pairings involving all seven main characters, in the show canon combinations. In addition there are the romantic pairings Emma/Gold, Emma/August(past), Belle/Rumpelstiltskin(past), Snow/Charming.
Summary: Some families are bound by blood, some by law, and some simply by choice, but family always finds one another. Season 1 AU.

Prompt: I want to see [the characters of Emma and Gold] on a more equal and honest footing... Or an AU where August and Emma were placed in the same home as Baelfire, and they all grew up much more functionally, and came to Storybrooke prepared.

Prompt: How does Gold turn back from the sort of person who tortures Moe French to the generous sheep farmer Bae longs for? Does he even want to?

Part II: Chapters 7-12
Part I: Chapters 1-6.

...all right. I'm starting to post, as a WIP, what my MONSTER NPT first draft has evolved into. (I took out a bunch of characters and it will still probably be longer than the 20k first draft!) Uh.. see you next month, when I'm done with this thing! (I'm going to try to have it done by the time Season 2 starts and totally josses me, at any rate.) It's only up on AO3. I'll post again when it's finished, because it's going to be at least ten chapters.

Title: The Best Chance
Fandom: Once Upon a Time
Rating: PG
Spoilers: All of Season 1
Characters: Emma, Baelfire, Henry, Regina, Mary Margaret, David Nolan, Mr. Gold
Relationship: Emma/Gold (eventually), Emma/August(past), Snow/Charming
Summary: Some families are bound by blood, some by law, and some simply by choice, but family always finds one another. (Season 1 AU.)

Prompt: I want to see [the characters of Emma and Gold] on a more equal and honest footing... Or an AU where August and Emma were placed in the same home as Baelfire, and they all grew up much more functionally, and came to Storybrooke prepared.

AO3 link here.