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Date Posted: Friday, September 02, 12:52:44pm
Author: Nell
Subject: Hmmm - since I made the tactical mistake of actually re-writing (r)
In reply to: Genevieve 's message, "If you could rewrite one story you'd written...(r)" on Friday, September 02, 04:03:02am

the very long Mrs. Sam - an as yet unfinished project - I have a complicated view of this!

First - what did I tackle when re-writing? My central problem, as I saw it, was the character of Nikita - she'd started out well enough, but as I wrote to the demands of posting WIP (which in some ways I miss!) I slowly slipped her into conventional romance heroine mold - some of her confidence leaked out and she got more naive and clingy than she began; and then Michael got correspondingly nobler and more wooden, and it became a horrid cycle.

So - when the orginal site hosting it was closed, I decided I would do a little 'tweaking' to see what I could do to hold onto the vibrant character I produced in the first few scenes.

It has ended up being far more than that. I moved the story forward a decade in time (1894-5 to 1904-5), which gave me a more modern setting and allowed me to add a lot of new characters, both canon and OC to the mix and introduced whole new problems. I think Nikita, and so Michael, are more human and more canon-like as a result. I am much happier with them.

I also have either eliminated or shortend several of the sex scenes I had originally written - the story isn't either PWP or porn and those fit awkwardly unless they had an actual plot purpose. I'm not even sure it's romance any more....it's about other things altogether.

......I like what I've done, but I haven't finished. Which is the problem of re-writes.

If I were going to re-write the stories I have *Finally!* managed to get into the archives?

The conversations in "Whose Life" are waaaaayyyyyy toooooooo looooooonnnnngggg.

I mean, I know I was writing wish fulfillment, in that story, in terms of a conversation I wished M and N would have - as well as carrying on a - now - long dead argument with those fans who after S4 ended declared that Niktia was a betraying, backstabbing bitch just as they'd known all along.

To top it all off, a lot of it is irrelevant chatter about food as well.

So I would just get in there with a metaphorical machette and hack away until I had something more streamlined and focused only on M and N and their issues with each other. I was almost tempted to do it anyway - then looked at the unfinished WIP on my harddrive, the half done rewrite of Mrs. Sam - and hit send to Ranma! *g*

Nell

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but -- sk, Friday, September 02, 08:38:29pm
- well (r) -- Nell, Saturday, September 03, 08:27:25am