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redfiona99I know where I made my mistake. I decided to write Magneto fic. Which is always a mistake.
I had this idea, you see.
I was reading something about Philip Larkin and was reading 'Annus Mirabilis' (http://www.wussu.com/poems/plam.htm) (or 'Sex Was Invented In 1963' if your memory is like mine). I then happened to think about X-Men: First Class. Being of a forgetful mind, I thought the Cuban Missile Crisis was 1963, not 1962 (which is bad since I definitely studied it at school) and my brain went 'a-ha! That's the hook for a fic about how, if everything that had happened to Magneto hadn't happened, he and Charles could have been happy.' And of course it being him knowing this and it's supposed to have been wistful, and very much post-the radio dish of tears scene.
So far, so straight forward. Only I will insist on having opinions about Magneto. And not believing in the concept of one true love. So the fic becomes all the people Magneto could have been happy with had everything not happened.
Still doable.
Only then I start writing and there's a lot of motive ranting and Magneto's messiah complex, but not so much wistfulness. And most of it is of the 'but I was utterly justified in what I was doing' kind and I'm finding myself ranting at the screen. Which is not something I usually do.
So there will be fic. It's just not the one I intended to write.
I had this idea, you see.
I was reading something about Philip Larkin and was reading 'Annus Mirabilis' (http://www.wussu.com/poems/plam.htm) (or 'Sex Was Invented In 1963' if your memory is like mine). I then happened to think about X-Men: First Class. Being of a forgetful mind, I thought the Cuban Missile Crisis was 1963, not 1962 (which is bad since I definitely studied it at school) and my brain went 'a-ha! That's the hook for a fic about how, if everything that had happened to Magneto hadn't happened, he and Charles could have been happy.' And of course it being him knowing this and it's supposed to have been wistful, and very much post-the radio dish of tears scene.
So far, so straight forward. Only I will insist on having opinions about Magneto. And not believing in the concept of one true love. So the fic becomes all the people Magneto could have been happy with had everything not happened.
Still doable.
Only then I start writing and there's a lot of motive ranting and Magneto's messiah complex, but not so much wistfulness. And most of it is of the 'but I was utterly justified in what I was doing' kind and I'm finding myself ranting at the screen. Which is not something I usually do.
So there will be fic. It's just not the one I intended to write.
