Oh, yeah, I end up rewriting stuff to make sure all the details line up at the end all the time. For example, with my current Big Fic, I've known for a while that I'm going to have Carter relieving John of command to the sound of scientists protesting and waving around signs in the background, and that it'd be because of some kind of big public outing. When I finished the scenes actually leading up to said outing, though, I went back and fiddled with dialog a bit to fit better with what actually ended up happening. (In this case, going from "sympathetic and plotting" to "sympathetic and plotting involving blaming alien drugs.)
I can see where you're coming from about the bribe, and sometimes some of the middle stuff does end up dragging a little. Although my big fic isn't a good example here, because even the 'filler' is interesting to me, because it's mostly snippets of media coverage of what happened in the important scenes. (Think sorta like Speranza's Victors, but with the press instead of historians.) I'm in the middle of a class analyzing that sort of stuff, and I ended up incorporating it.
The icon's imagery of solar flares from a NASA satellite. I rather like it, too.
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I can see where you're coming from about the bribe, and sometimes some of the middle stuff does end up dragging a little. Although my big fic isn't a good example here, because even the 'filler' is interesting to me, because it's mostly snippets of media coverage of what happened in the important scenes. (Think sorta like Speranza's Victors, but with the press instead of historians.) I'm in the middle of a class analyzing that sort of stuff, and I ended up incorporating it.
The icon's imagery of solar flares from a NASA satellite. I rather like it, too.