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Story Title: Sudden and Silent in its Arrival
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe - Iron Man Movies
Link(s): Fic on AO3
Summary: 22 1/2 hours of drive time, 1,461 miles of increasingly icy roads, and Los Angeles still isn't far enough back in Pepper's rearview mirror. But when her car breaks down just over the South Dakota state line, she meets a pair of men who give her a reason to stop running.
Warnings None
Characters: Pepper Potts, James Rhodes, Tony Stark
Pairings: Pepper/Rhodey/Tony, Rhodey/Tony
When I Started: I had my most successful NaNoWriMo ever in 2015; I actually made the daily wordcount goal like eight times! For someone most comfortable at the <500 word fic length, I blasted through writing this fic, getting out a beginning, middle, and end (plus three bonus fics) right on time at the end of the month. There were a bunch of places where I had just put [expand this] or [and then this happened] or [???], but I was super proud of myself, and determined to ride that momentum into spending 2016 writing multiple long fics.
How I Lost My Shit: Then the draft. . . sat. I got scared of looking back over it, because what it that feverish writing period had blinded me to its complete and utter banality? What if the "ending" was so slapped-together that it actually needed 5,000 more words of resolution (and maybe porn), not to mention another 3,000 words of set-up shoe-horned in at earlier points? The longer it lay unexamined in my drafts folder, the harder the idea of actually going back and finishing it seemed.
How I Finished My Shit I had signed up for this challenge with another (shorter) fic, figuring that I was *so close* to being done with this fic that it didn't make sense to sign up with it. But as the months passed and I kept avoiding this fic, I finally decided I had to bite the bullet and change my sign-up so that I had an actual deadline. And once I had that deadline, it became imperative to actually go back and fill in all those [expand this] and [and then this happened] and [???] sections, so that I could get it to a beta! And then my beta did tell me that the ending didn't work, but also helped me find ways to make it work, to make my original intention come through. And I finally rediscoveed the love I had for this story the whole time I was writing it. And now it's DONE!
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe - Iron Man Movies
Link(s): Fic on AO3
Summary: 22 1/2 hours of drive time, 1,461 miles of increasingly icy roads, and Los Angeles still isn't far enough back in Pepper's rearview mirror. But when her car breaks down just over the South Dakota state line, she meets a pair of men who give her a reason to stop running.
Warnings None
Characters: Pepper Potts, James Rhodes, Tony Stark
Pairings: Pepper/Rhodey/Tony, Rhodey/Tony
When I Started: I had my most successful NaNoWriMo ever in 2015; I actually made the daily wordcount goal like eight times! For someone most comfortable at the <500 word fic length, I blasted through writing this fic, getting out a beginning, middle, and end (plus three bonus fics) right on time at the end of the month. There were a bunch of places where I had just put [expand this] or [and then this happened] or [???], but I was super proud of myself, and determined to ride that momentum into spending 2016 writing multiple long fics.
How I Lost My Shit: Then the draft. . . sat. I got scared of looking back over it, because what it that feverish writing period had blinded me to its complete and utter banality? What if the "ending" was so slapped-together that it actually needed 5,000 more words of resolution (and maybe porn), not to mention another 3,000 words of set-up shoe-horned in at earlier points? The longer it lay unexamined in my drafts folder, the harder the idea of actually going back and finishing it seemed.
How I Finished My Shit I had signed up for this challenge with another (shorter) fic, figuring that I was *so close* to being done with this fic that it didn't make sense to sign up with it. But as the months passed and I kept avoiding this fic, I finally decided I had to bite the bullet and change my sign-up so that I had an actual deadline. And once I had that deadline, it became imperative to actually go back and fill in all those [expand this] and [and then this happened] and [???] sections, so that I could get it to a beta! And then my beta did tell me that the ending didn't work, but also helped me find ways to make it work, to make my original intention come through. And I finally rediscoveed the love I had for this story the whole time I was writing it. And now it's DONE!
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