Unfinished Fanfiction

[unknownfate]

Ok, I have an (ok, several) ongoing fanfic over at the Watchmen Kinkmeme. I haven’t been able to update them lately due to real life chasing me around waving a morningstar made of reality over its head. But! I thought, this weekend! I’ll post a chapter or two and ride the update updraft to better times with the RL stuff.

There is, however, a snag.

I had this particular fic all plotted out, but then, I had gotten a new idea that I had liked better and so I jotted it down so I would remember. Folks, I have forgotten where I wrote it down and all I remember was that it was better than my original idea. What am I supposed to do now? I could stick with the Plan A, I guess, but B was better! I felt better about it.

Do I just wait and keep looking? If history repeats itself, I’ll find B as soon as I finish A. Maybe I can type out the A to lure B out of hiding.

Should I devote all that search time to an even better (maybe) Plan C?

Or should I just declare that if the idea was all that good in the first place, I wouldn’t have forgotten it?

It’s hard work being scatterbrained. People think it’s easy. It isn’t.

Comments

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

I vote for Plan C. It's probably what I would do, at least.

But I hear your frustration. I had this very bare-bones idea for a novel, and I got this inspiration for a plot development. So I wrote down a couple of key words to remember it by, and now of course I have key words but can't for the life of me remember what they are supposed to mean.

[bane-6.livejournal.com]

I'll look again tomorrow, and failing that, will have to move on. There's only so many places left it could be. *gasp!* The truck! I haven't checked the backseat of the truck which is almost full of my junk. I'll try there.