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Heeelp! Fanfic Dilemma
Feb. 10th, 2013 05:58 pmI suppose this is a entry mostly addressed to my fic-writing friends. I'm in a bit of a dilemma, and maybe you guys have some helpful feedback for me. So I'm writing this story right now. I kinda doubt (m)any of you will know the fandom. Yet another obscure Canadian TV show from a few years ago with pretty much zero fandom. It's called Whistler (yes, after the skiing resort in BC). But that's actually only circumstantial.
Most of you know me as being partial to whumpy scenarios. And this is kind of a whumpy problem. The show actually did the whumping for me, cause the series ended on a huge cliffhanger for the pairing I'm writing for. A truck plowed into their car, and we don't find out what happened after that. But that's actually also circumstantial.
What I'm struggling with is the damn hospital conversation, in particular the one after character x wakes up from three days of unconsciousness. I've already given my best to forego the much cliched character-wakes-up-to-find-lover-by-bedside scenario by having character x wake up while character y isn't there, but she of course goes there after the hospital calls to say character x has regained consciousness. Cue awkward conversation with character x loaded to the gills with sedatives and pain meds.
You know, it's not so much that I don't think I can write it. It's more that I've already written it too often, for other fandoms (i.e. White Collar). And I just feel like I'm repeating myself a hundred times over, and I'm bored with it and frustrated with myself over it. Sure, I could just skip that part and move on a week or so, but that'd feel like a cop-out.
It always annoys me that on most TV shows, when a character wakes up after serious trauma, they're immediately fully alert, they don't seem to be in any pain, and they can hold a perfectly lucid and long conversation. Yeah, not exactly real life, people, right? But the thing is that real life is often not very good drama, which I'm pretty sure is why the TV shows tend to gloss over that part. My problem is that I want to write realistically, but I also want to write halfway interesting drama. And finding a middle ground there is so very difficult.
So, what are your experiences? Any helpful hints you might have for me? Anyone wanna write the scene for me? ;-)
Most of you know me as being partial to whumpy scenarios. And this is kind of a whumpy problem. The show actually did the whumping for me, cause the series ended on a huge cliffhanger for the pairing I'm writing for. A truck plowed into their car, and we don't find out what happened after that. But that's actually also circumstantial.
What I'm struggling with is the damn hospital conversation, in particular the one after character x wakes up from three days of unconsciousness. I've already given my best to forego the much cliched character-wakes-up-to-find-lover-by-bedside scenario by having character x wake up while character y isn't there, but she of course goes there after the hospital calls to say character x has regained consciousness. Cue awkward conversation with character x loaded to the gills with sedatives and pain meds.
You know, it's not so much that I don't think I can write it. It's more that I've already written it too often, for other fandoms (i.e. White Collar). And I just feel like I'm repeating myself a hundred times over, and I'm bored with it and frustrated with myself over it. Sure, I could just skip that part and move on a week or so, but that'd feel like a cop-out.
It always annoys me that on most TV shows, when a character wakes up after serious trauma, they're immediately fully alert, they don't seem to be in any pain, and they can hold a perfectly lucid and long conversation. Yeah, not exactly real life, people, right? But the thing is that real life is often not very good drama, which I'm pretty sure is why the TV shows tend to gloss over that part. My problem is that I want to write realistically, but I also want to write halfway interesting drama. And finding a middle ground there is so very difficult.
So, what are your experiences? Any helpful hints you might have for me? Anyone wanna write the scene for me? ;-)
