InsaneJournal

service announcement concerning DISTANCE
To my loyal wonderful readers:

There's always a risk when a writer does what I've been doing, posting a story just as fast as I make it up. I've never been the kind of writer who outlines or plans; I often don't know what's going to happen when I sit down to write the next part.
It's a high-wire act. For most of the time with Distance I was on an almost magical roll, the story just poured forth, I was on fire.

Then that changed.

I'm sure most of you have noticed that the story has lost some of its focus and momentum. I thought for a while that I could write through this, but now I think I'm going to take a step back, and will probably remove a big chunk of the recent parts, and do a major rewrite/revision. I can't say what parts will be yanked yet, because I want to do a thorough reread and have a good think about it. Nor can I say how quickly I'll make the changes, or much of anything, except that I hope the finished product will be better as a result.

I understand if this is annoying or worse than annoying, but of course we all know that fanfic is a labor of love, and a diversion, and for me writing it it's also an experience and an experiment--and in this case I reserve the option to revise the experience and create a different experience.

I'm not sure what I'll do with the parts that are posted here that I'm going to remove. I can't make those entries private so I may have to delete them and alas delete the comments too. Or I may figure out a way to map the links around them while making it clear they're no longer a part of the fic.

This is kind of a downer for me, but again, that's what can happen when you write out in public.