AUGH.

[agilebrit]

I know they say "Kill your darlings."

And I know that the Merc&theSnake story is...well, pretty predictable.

But the solution offered for making it not predictable means I have to gut a scene I like quite a bit--and add some gore that I'm not sure is really necessary. And it makes "saving" my protagonists...problematic. Because if they're both dead, then how do they get out?

Argh, I know this isn't making a lot of sense to people who haven't read the thing, but I just needed to vent a little, and the usual people I vent to via YIM aren't online right now. *cries*

Comments

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Change it significantly--like, change the whole premise of it. Which I can do, although doing so within the word count limitation of Cosmos may be tough. But I think it'll be a better story for the change, and I at least want to try.