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Aug. 27th, 2006 08:24 am...
Really, my dear.
Still ill. Unable to catch up with f-list. Sorry if I've missed owt of importance.
Really, my dear.
Still ill. Unable to catch up with f-list. Sorry if I've missed owt of importance.
Aug. 27th, 2006
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Aug. 27th, 2006 04:00 pmHealth update: SEMI-VERTICAL!
Mental health update: TROGDOR/JIGGLYPUFF OTP OMG!
*shakes head sadly*
I'm listening to the fair on the common and feeling faintly resentful I can't go, but to be honest? I'm sitting up. I'm sitting up, and I'm not wanting to cry.
Oh BABY.
I'm not quite up to a little dance of joy, yet, but possibly a small chair-bop.
:D
Mental health update: TROGDOR/JIGGLYPUFF OTP OMG!
*shakes head sadly*
I'm listening to the fair on the common and feeling faintly resentful I can't go, but to be honest? I'm sitting up. I'm sitting up, and I'm not wanting to cry.
Oh BABY.
I'm not quite up to a little dance of joy, yet, but possibly a small chair-bop.
:D
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Aug. 27th, 2006 05:04 pmI've been thinking about what I want from fanfic. I mean, not that I'm making requests, but what it is that I go into fanfic looking for.
The truth of the matter is that it changes with the fandom, according to the feel of the canon you're working with.
Canonical feel is something that's very important to me in stories, which is why I will rarely read anything that's an AU - or, at least, an AU more extreme than 'what would happen if...'. Good Omens very much wins in that respect, because it enables more crossovers (historical or in the future) and likewise makes a lot of things possible that would otherwise be severely AU. But I will accept a lot of things if the mood and the dialogue are believable. Character voice is something that is hugely important to me, and if that's off then I'm really not interested in reading the fic, no matter how good otherwise the writing might be.
Spent a long time trying to get over that in X-Files fandom, actually, because one particular writer was enormously prolific and wrote amazingly long and involved stories which I would have loved to have lost myself in... if the two protagonists, who hated each other, hadn't become lovebirds. Buying houses together, and setting up the garden. It read like... relationship wish-fulfillment, I guess, and that's not something I'm interested in.
Now I'm not going to say that I don't screw up here. My character-voices do tend to be good but I'm hopeless at plot and character motivation, which is why I largely stick to vignettes and missing scenes - I'd really appreciate if anyone could suggest ways of possibly practising at this. I admit that I need a lot of work, here. But I do what I can to keep my characters IC, because OOC characters might as well just change the names and admit it.
I'm gonna go into specifics about fandoms and what I love/what I'm looking for ( behind the cut )
Er. Yeah.
No conclusions, really. Consider it my thought for the day?
ETA: What the fuck I like totally italicised every third word in this post!
The truth of the matter is that it changes with the fandom, according to the feel of the canon you're working with.
Canonical feel is something that's very important to me in stories, which is why I will rarely read anything that's an AU - or, at least, an AU more extreme than 'what would happen if...'. Good Omens very much wins in that respect, because it enables more crossovers (historical or in the future) and likewise makes a lot of things possible that would otherwise be severely AU. But I will accept a lot of things if the mood and the dialogue are believable. Character voice is something that is hugely important to me, and if that's off then I'm really not interested in reading the fic, no matter how good otherwise the writing might be.
Spent a long time trying to get over that in X-Files fandom, actually, because one particular writer was enormously prolific and wrote amazingly long and involved stories which I would have loved to have lost myself in... if the two protagonists, who hated each other, hadn't become lovebirds. Buying houses together, and setting up the garden. It read like... relationship wish-fulfillment, I guess, and that's not something I'm interested in.
Now I'm not going to say that I don't screw up here. My character-voices do tend to be good but I'm hopeless at plot and character motivation, which is why I largely stick to vignettes and missing scenes - I'd really appreciate if anyone could suggest ways of possibly practising at this. I admit that I need a lot of work, here. But I do what I can to keep my characters IC, because OOC characters might as well just change the names and admit it.
I'm gonna go into specifics about fandoms and what I love/what I'm looking for ( behind the cut )
Er. Yeah.
No conclusions, really. Consider it my thought for the day?
ETA: What the fuck I like totally italicised every third word in this post!
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Aug. 27th, 2006 07:37 pmA poll. Since I've just been ferreting around and commenting on old LJ posts here and there, as I sometimes do.
[Poll #808023]
Me? I totally have notifications on. I'm a feedback HOR!
[Poll #808023]
Me? I totally have notifications on. I'm a feedback HOR!
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