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Re: Help!

[(Anonymous)]

Long fics with actual plots are great!

Are you determined to write the whole wizard fic from Matt's POV? If I recall correctly, one of the rules or hints for deciding on the POV for a scene is to ask yourself, who has the most to lose? Who has the most at stake? So if Foggy is the wizard, and there is a magic battle coming up that involves him, it seems to me that Foggy would be the one with the most to lose. Perhaps you should consider writing the story with alternating points of view, going back and forth from Matt to Foggy as each scene demands.

You can weave a lot of "Foggy thinking," into the story, placing carefully timed paragraphs here and there, and making sure you temper it with dialogue and/or action so that the fic does not consist entirely of Foggy's thoughts (unless you're going for a pure stream-of-consciousness story). Try to keep the paragraphs showing his thoughts from coming off as long and boring, and don't let them hold up the action. You could also think about having Foggy talk to somebody about what he's thinking, instead of just thinking it.

Hope this helps, and good luck!

Re: Help!

[(Anonymous)]

I have been reconsidering my plan to have just one POV (mainly because of the battle admittedly) but it would mean So. Much. More. Work.
So far my plan for the fic is roughly:
- some college-era scenes that involve things that Matt would find odd bot not downright 'obviously he is hiding something major from me'-suspicious
- Season 1 plot + added demons which is going to work so well considering I paid like no attention at all to the actual crime-plot of the show
- N v M with both yelling about the other having kept major secrets
- more S1 plot and more demons
- some random stuff happening afterwards

Which is already a lot. And of course some of the stuff I could just write from Foggy's POV instead of Matt's but I still had to add some stuff...and try to keep it at least roughly balanced between both because I don't want to end up with 10 chapters from one and 3 from the other.
It's certainly a possibility worth considering I'm just not sure if it will improve things that much for me.

The thing about the Foggy vs. serial killer fic is...that it's just that. Foggy is alternately locked up alone or talking to the guy who is going to kill him if he says the wrong thing so discussing his escape-plans with him is right out.
(Incidentally I've also considered adding some Matt-POV here. Not that he could interact with Foggy but he could still -duh- do stuff which might give the reader a break from constant 'Foggy thinks' and 'Foggy talks to creepy killer and thinks about what to say/do to avoid getting killed' but I think I have to write a bit more before I can make a decision about that).

But thanks. Writing down my thoughts actually did help :D