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Writer's Block: Previously on My Journal
Mar. 27th, 2009 11:11 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
Basically, the Project That Ate My Brain, also known as the not!kkbb/im novelthing.
It began life as a Kiss Kiss Bang Bang/Iron Man crossover, because my Muse (Antubis the Evil, who is an anteater with teeth you might recognize from Kingdom Hospital) decided that having two characters played by Robert Downey, Jr., in the same story would be a fine and dandy thing. Understand that I didn't want to write fanfiction ever again--I would much rather pen things I can actually sell. But I've learned in my years of writing that if something grabs me by the throat like that, I'd better write it, otherwise I won't be able to write anything else, and so I sat down and started. Whining all the way.
And then I was at WorldCon, with a sign on my computer that read "Writer at work--PLEASE disturb before I beat my Muse to death. Seriously." And I was whining about this project to a sympathetic ear. I'd talked to him before about some of my previous projects, and he said "Wait a minute...don't you have a universe you can plug these characters into?"
After a few minutes of initial resistance--because I was something like three thousand words into it by then, and OMG THE REVISIONS REQUIRED SOB--and a panel that touched on industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry, the idea noodled around, solidified, and became...this.
( Whoa, that got long... )
Basically, the Project That Ate My Brain, also known as the not!kkbb/im novelthing.
It began life as a Kiss Kiss Bang Bang/Iron Man crossover, because my Muse (Antubis the Evil, who is an anteater with teeth you might recognize from Kingdom Hospital) decided that having two characters played by Robert Downey, Jr., in the same story would be a fine and dandy thing. Understand that I didn't want to write fanfiction ever again--I would much rather pen things I can actually sell. But I've learned in my years of writing that if something grabs me by the throat like that, I'd better write it, otherwise I won't be able to write anything else, and so I sat down and started. Whining all the way.
And then I was at WorldCon, with a sign on my computer that read "Writer at work--PLEASE disturb before I beat my Muse to death. Seriously." And I was whining about this project to a sympathetic ear. I'd talked to him before about some of my previous projects, and he said "Wait a minute...don't you have a universe you can plug these characters into?"
After a few minutes of initial resistance--because I was something like three thousand words into it by then, and OMG THE REVISIONS REQUIRED SOB--and a panel that touched on industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry, the idea noodled around, solidified, and became...this.
( Whoa, that got long... )
