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I continue to not post my mindscape thing. Part of it is that I don't think it's quite been set up yet; there are a few more things I should maybe establish first.
I'm working on a Christmas 2004 prequel, but ... so, the problem with just jumping on a writing impulse and deciding you'll fill in the research later is that the research maybe makes everything you've written useless. I read a fanfic with a ludicrously unrealistic baby, off the charts impossible, and I was feeling good about how much more care I was taking with the three-and-a-half-year-old I was writing, even though I knew I was guessing. And then, well, I watched some YouTube videos of kids that age, and near that age, and a year older than that age, and ... yeah, there's no way my preschooler character is capable of what the plot requires. And the plot doesn't really work if I push it out the two years or so that are probably the absolute minimum.
Meh. I might be able to rewrite it to remove the worst unrealities, but that requires removing most of the interaction with the kid, and ... I like the interaction. Maybe I'll finish writing this pass, and then see if I can write the more realistic version, and then post both as a choose-your-own-adventure kind of thing. Who knows. I'm up to almost 10k words on this version; the back end is sprawling more than I anticipated it would.
This snippet is not from the way-too-advanced section; as far as I know, this part's at least plausible.
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I'm working on a Christmas 2004 prequel, but ... so, the problem with just jumping on a writing impulse and deciding you'll fill in the research later is that the research maybe makes everything you've written useless. I read a fanfic with a ludicrously unrealistic baby, off the charts impossible, and I was feeling good about how much more care I was taking with the three-and-a-half-year-old I was writing, even though I knew I was guessing. And then, well, I watched some YouTube videos of kids that age, and near that age, and a year older than that age, and ... yeah, there's no way my preschooler character is capable of what the plot requires. And the plot doesn't really work if I push it out the two years or so that are probably the absolute minimum.
Meh. I might be able to rewrite it to remove the worst unrealities, but that requires removing most of the interaction with the kid, and ... I like the interaction. Maybe I'll finish writing this pass, and then see if I can write the more realistic version, and then post both as a choose-your-own-adventure kind of thing. Who knows. I'm up to almost 10k words on this version; the back end is sprawling more than I anticipated it would.
This snippet is not from the way-too-advanced section; as far as I know, this part's at least plausible.
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