| September 17th, 2023 |
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At the start of last year I started working on a piece of original fiction. I was a bit over 300k words into it when I got the nasty concussion, which really impeded progress.
I'm picking it up again by doing a rewrite pass, because I was always intending to, and there are some adjustments I need to make to be sure the ending will be workable.
I don't want to throw away all the stuff I've got to write a new story diverging from the same starting point, or at least not yet, but I do have ideas.
If nothing else, the idea of: "what if I wrote the story I had originally thought of instead of the wildly different thing this diverged to"
It's challenging to plan it structurally, because it involves flashbacks and time travel and all sorts of things like that, but the starting point I have - and I think this does need to be the starting point - risks giving people a rather inaccurate view of one of the central characters, because at the point where the story starts he seems like an arrogant and standoffish asshole, whereas actually, no, he's a nice guy, he's just in a very stressful situation surrounded by people he hates.
I might start posting excerpts/meta here. I'm not planning to put them on a filter immediately. They'll be cut tagged if you don't want to see them.
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"It's the most painful operation you can have on your body." - my surgeon, this morning
It doesn't make most of the lists of you google "most painful operation" but they usually just list orthopaedic surgeries, and I can definitely state with absolute confidence that at least one of the ones mentioned isn't nearly as painful as having a cyst removed can be, so there's that.
Really, these things are so variable and subjective!
He seemed mildly concerned that I'll have an unpleasant time because of how many painkillers I have adverse reactions to, but that's a discussion to have with the anaesthetist.
My surgery will be on the second of October, which is at least a couple of days after ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) velithya's birthday. I go into hospital the night before and come out... at some point. It depends on various factors to do with how the surgery and recovery go.
Unnerving comments notwithstanding he seemed very nice.
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