The Highwaymen – Highwayman L’arena – Ennio Morricone You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive – Brad Paisley Dead of Night – Orville Peck Paint It, Black – Ramin Djawadi Good Cop, Bad Cop – Prom Queen Ain’t No Rest For the Wicked – Cage the Elephant Heart of Gold – Neil Young God’s Gonna Cut You Down – Johnny Cash Take Me Home, Country Roads – John Denver (Ghost) Riders In The Sky – Johnny Cash Here’s to you, Nicola and Bart – Joan Baez I Won’t Back Down – Johnny Cash Carry On My Wayward Son Lyrics – Kansas Where Have All The Cowboys Gone? – Paula Cole House of the Rising Sun (Instrumental) Gin & Ale Copperline – James Taylor Space Lion – the Seatbelts Whiskey River – Willie Nelson The Devil Went Down to Georgia- Charlie Daniels I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow – The Soggy Bottom Boys
I think we may unfortunately be the wrong person to ask for good advice about this, unless you just want a pep talk. Almost everything we write (and post!) is short fics, drabbles, and fics under a thousand words long that we give a quick spelling/grammar/punctuation check for and then post immediately without much/any editing.
With longfic, I don’t think we’ve actually *ever* done a rewrite, although on occasion we’ll do slightly more thorough editing to add some more internal narrative, or to make sure a scene has enough flavor and description.
When it comes to our writing, whether it’s a chapter in a longfic, or a oneshot ficlet, we mostly just write it and post it.
Because it’s fanfiction, and that’s what is the most fun. With ‘professional’ writing we’ll put things away for months and then re-read and edit it.
But fanfiction has a lot of benefits. You’re not looking to get paid, and you’re not a professional. It can be what it is.
Also, fanfiction has the benefit of having a context already. With a stand alone, original fiction you have to set up all the context for the scene you want to write. But with fanfiction, you can just type out that 700 word scene, post it, and everyone who’s going to read it already has all the context that they need to enjoy it.
if anybody has some *actually* good advice for you on re-writing, editing and creating longer projects, I hope they’ll chime in with it here for you.
My philosophy of drabbles (100 word fics) is the same way as I would approach a sketch. It’s not meant to tell a full story, but rather to provide a single, tantalizing snapshot of a moment, to impress an image on the reader, so that they might imagine it set in their own fuller context.
