Writing and Season Finales

[afrozenflower]

Outlined a little today. Now I know more or less how I'm going to end this fic, but I still have to tie some strings. But eh, I'm not going to worry about them until I reach that point. Also, I finally started to write again. There is this scene that has been nagging me for days now. No matter how much I fix it, I'm still unsatisfied with it. Ugh. I'm tempted to just leave it for a couple of days then come back to it, but it is really important to the plot that I can't write anything after that scene without knowing exactly how it ends. Hopefully I will reach to some sort of ending to it today and move on.

Most shows already aired their season finales and that reminds me of how many I need to catch up to/start to watch. Ahhh so manyyy.
My priorities at the moment are to catch up to Supernatural (and maybe Game of Thrones? Depends on whether I get to read book 4 and 5 soon or not.) and start a new show. I haven't decided on one yet. (Hannibal? Teen Wolf? S.H.E.I.L.D?) so we will see.
Oh, and I want to re-watch Merlin. I miss it terribly.

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[star_swan]

GoT is all over the place series-wise. They might spoil you a bit for book stuff. :S
Watched AoShield. It has its moments. The finale was a bit cracktastic.

Ugh. I'm tempted to just leave it for a couple of days then come back to it, but it is really important to the plot that I can't write anything after that scene without knowing exactly how it ends.

I know how you feel. I have been holing up trying to make serious writing progress, but some days I feel like I am trying to move a huge boulder.

Good luck with your writing! :)

Oh, and I want to re-watch Merlin. I miss it terribly.

yes! I started and made it through S2 before getting sidetracked.

[afrozenflower]

I was afraid of getting spoiled. And the news about the new season spoiling the yet unpublished books didn't really assure me. But I'm going to take my chances, at least with just season 2. The actors are really good and I miss the show.

I was wondering where you had run off to. Hope it is all going well. :)
Writing has be really frustrating at times. And it definitely doesn't help that, whenever I get stuck, my mind decides to focus on another story. Which leaves me with a bunch of WIPs that I'm not sure if I will ever finish.

I need to freshen up my memory about Merlin. It will help me with a fanfic I'm writing, and it will also give me the excuse to watch Merlin and Arthur act like an old married couple.

I did the same with Glee. It was good and I love the songs, but I just felt that the plot wasn't going anywhere so I got bored. I have been meaning to get back to it, if only see Kurt get his HEA, but whenever I think of it, I remember Cory's death and I really don't want to watch the episode where they talk about it.

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S2 is pretty safe. I only made it up to part of S3. I know that onwards from that they just start taking things out of sequence from various parts of the series (and of course they have changed a few things which I have to say, I find annoying. Interpretations are understandable, but we're talking major character changes, things that perhaps JRRM planned and told the show runners but which have not been written in the actual book series yet?? I am being optimistic here.)

The show is good in its own right, but I obviously have more faith than they do that JRRM isn't going to shuffle off anytime soon. :P

I'm sorry I ran off. ^^;; I would start to make entries and then close the window and/or have saved bits of them on my computer. A lot of life stuff and trying to submerge myself in writing land.

whenever I get stuck, my mind decides to focus on another story. Which leaves me with a bunch of WIPs that I'm not sure if I will ever finish.

That sort of thing scares me. It's not that I have so many ideas but I'd hate to think that they'd have the insolence to sprout off entirely. I did have a character express interest in a different character that I did not even intend them to have interest in at all! or not much at all.

Earlier in the week, I was at that "Oh no. Why am I even writing this? It's no good!" stage But just two days prior, I loved my story. Hahaha. Other folks must think writers are bananas!

and it will also give me the excuse to watch Merlin and Arthur act like an old married couple.

That is the sort of thing that makes me wish that during the final season (for an entire season at least), Arthur had known. It would have been so interesting! I think that they still would have bickered like an old married couple. It could have been their secret together which would have led to so many intercharacter tensions. I am not wearing ship goggles as I type this. And I realize I have probably babbled about this before.

I think that nearly every finale for every series (not many either) that I watch disappointed me either because it was lackluster or disorganized.
What you said about Glee reminds me of how dire Buffy got. I was binging it and then by S5 it goes to the DARK place in a hurry and continues to be miserable and depressing for most of the characters. People die, horrible things happen. There is an entire episode dedicated to someone's death and how everyone deals with it. It has almost no dialogue. :S It's brilliant but soooo depressing. Anymore, I avoid shows with angst or lots of violence.
Eek! this reply is long.

[afrozenflower]

Yeah, I heard that they changed a lot of things, which really pisses me off. I can get that if they changed some things because it would be difficult to do on screen, but some of the spoilers I've heard are just completely unnecessary. And in the new season, they spoil some stuff from Winds of Winter, the sixth book which isn't published. If I do watch the show, I won't watch that season until I've read the book. No way will I get spoiled by the show.

I suppose it is my turn to apologise for suddenly disappearing? Didn't mean it, but real life just cut me off the online world for a while.

My WIPs are getting out of hand lately. They are all over the place and I just don't have the energy these days to sort through them and figure out what I want to focus on. Hopefully that will stop soon, because I really should figure out what I'm going to do, especially now with Camp NaNoWriMo starting in two weeks.

"I did have a character express interest in a different character that I did not even intend them to have interest in at all! or not much at all."
That did happen with me a while ago. One of my WIPs is a Merlin fanfic and in it I have a couple of original characters. While in the middle of writing it, I realised that Morgana was starting to show romantic interest in one of them. I was like "What? No, this shouldn't happen." But it did. And now I just have to deal with it.
Why can't our characters just listen to us?

"That is the sort of thing that makes me wish that during the final season (for an entire season at least), Arthur had known."
Yes, this would have been really interesting to see. I have started watching Merlin knowing that Arthur would die at the end, but I was hoping that he would find out that Merlin was a sorcerer a lot sooner. Wasn't convincing him that magic should be allowed one of the things that Merlin wanted to do? And sure Arthur did, but it was at the very end. We didn't have time to enjoy it before he died.

I haven't finished a lot of TV shows, because they are either 1) seemingly never-ending (Ex: Supernatural) b) I got bored/tired of them (Ex: The Vampire Diaries, Glee.)

[star_swan]

Now I must apologize for vanishing. ^^;;
Work became extreme and in between I was reading books for research and writing.

I certainly want to come to Winds of Winter without spoilers. That is lame. He could give them all that they need to know and just proceed in order season by season. Sheesh.

Basically, all WIPs must bow down before the main one. I consider them fun detours that still sharpen my writing skills until a later date.
I am glad in this instance that my characters did what they wanted as it is turning out to be more interesting that what I had planned. :)

Wasn't convincing him that magic should be allowed one of the things that Merlin wanted to do?

Yes! What about the Epic Partnership to Unite The Lands of Albion? We never really saw the Glory Days of Merlin and Arthur. At least Queen Gwen knows. Still.
I always thought that Arthur (depending on which myth or retelling you read) made it to middle age before dying/going off to Avalon. He still died sooner than he ought to have but I envisioned him as being like 40-something. Like early 40s. It is hard to discern how much time elapses in the show but they look to be about late 20s. :P I forget how old the actors are. Arthur totally died prematurely.

Yeah. I can't commit to crazily long tv shows either...
..unless I start out early on and become besotted, which is rare.

[afrozenflower]

No worries. I know how life can be overwhelming and distracting at times. :)

The other day I was just scrolling through Twitter, carefully avoiding spoilers because everyone had just watched the finale a couple of days ago when a fucking program on the TV decided to just say the names of the people who died in the finale. And I just... I was so shocked that I didn't recover quickly enough and got spoiled for two characters. Ugghhhh. Whenever I remember this, I get so angry. It just ruined everything for me. I heard rumours about one of those characters, but it was unconfirmed because apparently it happened at the end of book 5 and no one is sure they died. (Remember the whole thing with Cat? They said it might be something along to this.) So I'm not exactly sad for that character, and I wasn't surprised for the other because let's be honest, this is ASoIaF, everyone will die. But I was just angry that I got spoiled. And I just unfollowed everything GoT-related on my social media, even the ones who are careful with spoilers, because fuck it, I will not get spoiled for the sixth book.

Writing is fun no matter what, and that's why I put up with it even when my mind is constantly shifting between stories, rarely focusing on just one.
Characters can really surprise you in pleasant ways sometimes. Like this one time, one of my characters killed someone accidently. I was actually shocked when it occurred to me but later on it made sense in the context of his development and it will actually help him later in the story. I guess my subconscious was trying to send me a message? :D

Yes! So many things we didn't get to see, so many things that the writers just gave us glimpses about but not enough to satisfy us. Characters like Gwaine, Mordred, the Druids.. They had so much story potential. So many things that could be developed. And I realise that the writers were focusing on Arthur and Merlin because Merlin couldn't leave Arthur and couldn't trust someone else enough to talk about his magic, but I had hoped that, once Arthur finally accepts magic, they can start working on other plotlines.

Also, I really didn't like some of the deaths in the series. Not because they were sad (They were. They broke my heart.) but because they just left me empty and unsatisfied. For example, Lancelot's death. It was honourable and brave and all that, but once I've read more about the original Arthurian mythology, I really had hoped they would work on the whole love triangles between Arthur, Gwen, and Lancelot more. I hate love triangles, but this one could have been really interesting, could have been taken in a lot of ways. I didn't want it to end like how it ended in the original mythology, with Camelot falling apart, but I wanted to see an alternative ending. Like Arthur ending up with Merlin. I don't know really. I suppose the writers never wanted to focus on that but ugh. So much potential. They could have made another five seasons with all the plot threads they had. I love the ending, but I honestly think it would have been better if the TV show was longer, both from a fangirl and a casual viewer's perspective.

Yeah, the show skipped a lot of years though the seasons that it is hard to exactly know how much time has passed. Especially since some of the actors and actresses look so young.

Welp. Long reply.