Kadmus
Dragon's teeth are surprisingly hard to sow
- Location
- Devon
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Yeah, the number of fics that die right about when they're getting to the actually intersting bit because the author's grown bored of writing thousands of words of tedious growing up is astronomical; start your fic from the bit you want to tell, not from the beginning of everything.
I've said before that I suspect a lot of the childhood stuff in SI fics is because writers feel they need to 'justify' their SI being skilled/powerful/etc. enough to join in on the bits they actually want to write. They don't! Just have your character be cool from the start, and you can backfill the 'why' as and when it's necessary, the way you would with every character. Often you never need to backfill the 'why'!
I've said before that I suspect a lot of the childhood stuff in SI fics is because writers feel they need to 'justify' their SI being skilled/powerful/etc. enough to join in on the bits they actually want to write. They don't! Just have your character be cool from the start, and you can backfill the 'why' as and when it's necessary, the way you would with every character. Often you never need to backfill the 'why'!