Picture me waving my hands, weeping, and running in little circles as you read this post

[brigdh]

Panic:

AHHHHHHHH, remix stories are due in three days and I'm in post-finals mode where all I want to do is sleep and play mindless Katamari Damacy on the Playstation and my computer's driving me crazy anyway and why is the only plotbunny I have one that's going to take me forever to write, why can't I come up with a simpler backup plot and AHHHHHHHH.

/panic

Also, hey, V for Vendetta was pretty good. Apparently it is possible to make a movie from an Alan Moore comic that doesn't suck!

Comments

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

why can't I come up with a simpler backup plot and AHHHHHHH.

That's pretty much where I was a week ago, so I sympathize A LOT.

I have no real practical help to give. Complaining bitterly in email about why none of my own initial ideas were working, or were ever going to work, turned out to be what saved me, since it led to a conversation about the stories I had available to remix, and talking about the stories themselves got me thinking about them in new and useful ways. In fact, it was so helpful, and so immediately helpful, that if I were to do this again next year I'd do that almost as soon as the assignments came down rather than waiting until I was in a blind panic. But I don't know whether it would work as fast and well for you as it did for me, even if that were a route you felt comfortable taking.

Meanwhile, if I don't get the revisions done on mine, I'm going to go back to full-blown panic mode myself. Eeeek!

But I tell myself, it will all be worth it on the 25th, when there are hundreds of new things to read.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Complaining bitterly in email about why none of my own initial ideas were working, or were ever going to work, turned out to be what saved me

I can completely see why that would be so helpful, and you're right, if I ever do this again, I think I'll try that right away. Unfortunately, I just don't think I have enough time left for this year's; my main hope is just to buckle down and the write the thing, and hope desperately that all the things that are bugging me about it are simply paranoia, and not actually terrible problems, inconsistencies, plotholes, etc.

Good luck with your revisions, though!

And yes. Though I'd practically forgotten that I'll actually be getting so many things to read, I've been so focused on writing my own. It'll be like a neat surprise.