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I just saw The Dark Knight with my granny. She kind of enjoyed it, even though she couldn't follow the plot without help and isn't really accustomed to contemporary movies. As someone who has seen or read various iterations of the Batman story, I enjoyed the movie quite a lot myself: there are bits of the movie that may not be picked up on by non-geek viewers but provide some easter eggs for Bat-geeks like myself. One of the less spoiler-y instances is a sight gag referencing the famous Joker line "You can't spell slaughter without laughter."
Seeing the movie has made me consider getting back to work on an old Batman Beyond fic that I left off partway through some years ago and haven't touched since, partly because of RL stuff but mostly because I got stuck with the plot. I am good at characters but not really good at plots. My lack of plot-fu has choked off many of my potential fanfic projects in a mass of frustration, despair and timidity.
However, I have discovered a strategy for overcoming a lack of plot-fu: writing out a story arc. I can't take credit for coming up with the method, as it comes from Jim Butcher's blog. It seems worth trying with that Batman Beyond fic, since I have a fairly solid foundation for that and a number of scenes in mind. I'm actually thinking of using a modified version of this method with an Excel chart instead of a story arc on paper, because it will be easier for me to change things around and have multiple levels of detail that way. My plot-fu may not be good, but I've learned a lot of Excel-fu in the course of my recent internship.
I will let you know how that goes. Meanwhile, if you haven't seen The Dark Knight already, what are you waiting for?
Seeing the movie has made me consider getting back to work on an old Batman Beyond fic that I left off partway through some years ago and haven't touched since, partly because of RL stuff but mostly because I got stuck with the plot. I am good at characters but not really good at plots. My lack of plot-fu has choked off many of my potential fanfic projects in a mass of frustration, despair and timidity.
However, I have discovered a strategy for overcoming a lack of plot-fu: writing out a story arc. I can't take credit for coming up with the method, as it comes from Jim Butcher's blog. It seems worth trying with that Batman Beyond fic, since I have a fairly solid foundation for that and a number of scenes in mind. I'm actually thinking of using a modified version of this method with an Excel chart instead of a story arc on paper, because it will be easier for me to change things around and have multiple levels of detail that way. My plot-fu may not be good, but I've learned a lot of Excel-fu in the course of my recent internship.
I will let you know how that goes. Meanwhile, if you haven't seen The Dark Knight already, what are you waiting for?
