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On [livejournal.com profile] dragonsangel68's recommendation, I rented Definitely, Maybe a couple of days ago. I'd been wanting to see it for a while, but also kind of avoiding it because I really don't care for Elizabeth Banks, not since she Mary Sued it up on Scrubs (which I recognise is not necessarily her fault because she wasn't the one who wrote the character, but writers don't have faces and I need someone to blame, and irrationality is complicated). Anyway. Good call, Jen. Thank you. It was such a sweet movie, and really pleasantly atypical for a romantic comedy while still fulfilling the requirements of the genre.
 
And now for something completely different.

I'm hopelessly stuck on my latest fic; I still have a number of chapters to post before I start feeling guilty about not updating, so hopefully I'll get my groove back well before that all kicks in. The trouble is, I have specific plot points I want to hit in my outline, and time needs to pass from point to point, but I don't know what happens in between those points and I don't want to just go, "And six months later..." because that feels like cheating, but then if I do write what happens in between, it maybe just comes off as massive amounts of useless filler.

I got a one-sentence review asking when D/G was going to happen, which I translated as, "Shut up and make them kiss, already."

Which, you know, I guess is a valid concern, seeing as it is ultimately a D/G fic on the D/G archive, and I've written eleven chapters and they're still barely speaking to each other.

I'll admit this fic is a bit of an experiment for me; I wanted to see if I could write a serious narrative that didn't rely so much on dialogue to push the story forward because I think I tend to drift towards fluff and humour and lots of banter but not a lot of emotion or description.

Is it too much? Self-indulgent? I don't know if people find it as interesting or fun as I do that, like, there's a whole scene centered around Draco going to the bank, or if it's all blah blah fishcakes and everyone's just sort of making that circular, wrap-it-up gesture in their heads and waiting for me to get to the good parts.

Anyway, to sum up: Blergh.
 
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