OOC: OH, Writing
Oct. 23rd, 2008 01:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
watch_is_meAnd, suddenly, having already written up an entire draft, I'm wondering if John wouldn't have been a conscientious objector. And would you run towards or away from your dream-opposite, if you knew they were out there, on the field of battle?
On the other hand, the Doctor's notorious for running *towards* trouble.
And if something haunted you your entire life, wouldn't you want to confront it, if the possibility presented itself?
HRM.
Of course, I can always go back and write an alternate version, for conscientious-objector-dom.
On the other other hand, I feel like John might be like Handy. I.e., my other self may have already made these mistakes, but that other's not me, and I have to make them for *myself* if *I'm* going to move on.
Writing, like everything else in life, comes with second and third and fourth thoughts attached.
On the other hand, the Doctor's notorious for running *towards* trouble.
And if something haunted you your entire life, wouldn't you want to confront it, if the possibility presented itself?
HRM.
Of course, I can always go back and write an alternate version, for conscientious-objector-dom.
On the other other hand, I feel like John might be like Handy. I.e., my other self may have already made these mistakes, but that other's not me, and I have to make them for *myself* if *I'm* going to move on.
Writing, like everything else in life, comes with second and third and fourth thoughts attached.
