Also My Spellcheck Fails At Star Trek
Aug. 25th, 2009 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
masterofmidgetsWhat I am learning from writing the Kirk/Spock anti-sex pollen fic:
1. Spock voice is the hardest thing in the world to get into. I got stuck on this story for like two weeks because I couldn't get into Spock's head space well enough to write him.
2. Scotty is 100000000x worse than Spock. I want to kill all my Scotty dialogue with fire because it is horriblebadawful and I don't know how to fix it.
3. I <3333333333 McCoy all the time. This story isn't about him and he still gets like 5 pages of POV and a huge role later on because he is my favorite ever and I love writing him. If anyone else would read it I would write a novel that was nothing but McCoy wandering around the universe being grumpy at people.
4. I fail at wordcount estimates. I thought this would end up about 2500 words, and then I hit 1500 and they still didn't know what was wrong with Kirk and Spock. And then I thought it would be about 5000 but Kirk hadn't even gotten kidnapped yet. Now it's 7900 and Spock is on the planet walking to the camp of Romulan bounty hunters to rescue Kirk and almost die and then they both get fixed and cuddle in sickbay and have make outs while McCoy makes grumpy faces and argh this fic is never going to end.
colourofsaying , where aaaaaare you? I have ideas and bad dialogue I need to bouce off you!
ETA: also, my Spock is a total mama's boy. I do not believe canon contradicts me on this.
1. Spock voice is the hardest thing in the world to get into. I got stuck on this story for like two weeks because I couldn't get into Spock's head space well enough to write him.
2. Scotty is 100000000x worse than Spock. I want to kill all my Scotty dialogue with fire because it is horriblebadawful and I don't know how to fix it.
3. I <3333333333 McCoy all the time. This story isn't about him and he still gets like 5 pages of POV and a huge role later on because he is my favorite ever and I love writing him. If anyone else would read it I would write a novel that was nothing but McCoy wandering around the universe being grumpy at people.
4. I fail at wordcount estimates. I thought this would end up about 2500 words, and then I hit 1500 and they still didn't know what was wrong with Kirk and Spock. And then I thought it would be about 5000 but Kirk hadn't even gotten kidnapped yet. Now it's 7900 and Spock is on the planet walking to the camp of Romulan bounty hunters to rescue Kirk and almost die and then they both get fixed and cuddle in sickbay and have make outs while McCoy makes grumpy faces and argh this fic is never going to end.
colourofsaying , where aaaaaare you? I have ideas and bad dialogue I need to bouce off you!ETA: also, my Spock is a total mama's boy. I do not believe canon contradicts me on this.