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[roxy]

Oh my. Supernatural, Smallville...Thursday night is made of happy!

So, last part of my story made me kind of depressed. Silly, I know but there you have it. So, this next part is also very depressing even though little scenes keep spinning out in my head, I refuse to write them down. Or I write a few lines of dialog here, a little description there...I keep rewriting it to make it less depressing. Like, Clark runs away from home and ends up in Disneyland, with a tummy ache from too much cotton candy.

Hah. Hark at me, I'm insane!

So, here's the question, how realistic should I make it? Would it be undercutting the story to avoid dealing with Clark on the street? I know in the end it's my decision, but I was just curious as to what ya'll thought about it? He'll be staying with a series of people before Lex (OCs warning, folks!) and I'm not planning on taking a half year getting there. (crosses fingers and prays)

help a sister out?

Comments

Still wearing black...

[ladydey.livejournal.com]

I think that you at least have to setup Clark on the street, it is probably very important to the man that he is becoming and how he will interact with the world once he becomes and adult/Superman. So detail his first week say, living rough, before he finds his way to survive - what ever sugardaddy form that takes. Then you can flashback to whatever rough trade Clark gets up to, maybe dealing more with Clark's feelings about what he's up to (not that this would be happier necessarily, but it might be a work around for some stuff that you don't really want to write about.) This way we get the flavor if not all the pie - besides I am not a big fan of Clark torture anyway.

Re: Still wearing black...

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Awwwww...*hugs you, sings verse from Cooly High*


Ah-hah. I didn't say I wasn't going to torture him...just not that way. What you say about detailing his first week--wonderful! I was thinking something along those lines--a horrific few days,and then a good Samaritan finding him and helping him out. Of course, that's not to say horrible things aren't to happen later on, but I don't have to be graphic right? Besides, it's been done before by way better writers than me. (and way worse, oy)

Then you can flashback to whatever rough trade Clark gets up to, maybe dealing more with Clark's feelings about what he's up to

I think that idea works great with coming events.

Thank you so much for lending me a shoulder to whine on here!

Re: Still wearing black...

[ladydey.livejournal.com]

I think at the very least you are going to explore the ways in which living (loving) on the street effect Clark more then they did on the show - I love Smallville at times, but I think they glossed over a lot of Clark's lost summer, or at least the psychological ramifications of Clark's need to run, and all the thing that he had to do to survive, before he started to knock over atms. And since this Clark can't knock over atms, he will have to suffer more and viewed through the lens of Clark's earlier molestation, you probably can go some interesting places.

You know I'm always happy to lend a hand - it seems lately I can go on and on about fics that I like.