As a voracious fanfic reader, I have never ever read a fic where I thought "Oh, this is longer than originally planned? That blows!" A fic that's longer than planned is like finding a $20 in your coat pocket.
Xander: I do have Spaghetti-os. Set 'em on top of the dryer and you're a fluff cycle away from lukewarm goodness. Riley: I, uh, had dryer-food for lunch.
'Same Time, Same Place'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
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Steph L. - Apr 16, 2022 3:23:29 pm PDT #10293 of 10431
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Sophia Brooks - Apr 16, 2022 3:28:47 pm PDT #10294 of 10431
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I would agree with Steph.
Kate P. - Apr 16, 2022 4:20:22 pm PDT #10295 of 10431
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
A fic that's longer than planned is like finding a $20 in your coat pocket.
Ha! Absolutely true.
JZ, I'm super excited that you're writing fic! If you want a beta at some point, I'd gladly volunteer. I assume this is for OFMD?
Beverly - Apr 16, 2022 4:45:50 pm PDT #10296 of 10431
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
In my (not so) copious finished pieces there are two where I didn't recognize the ending and just kept going, until I took a breath and went, "Wait--" turned around and looked back, and the story had finished. Back there. Sometimes that can happen too.
JZ - Apr 16, 2022 5:42:10 pm PDT #10297 of 10431
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
If you want a beta at some point, I'd gladly volunteer.
I'd love that! I think it may be done fairly soon.
I assume this is for OFMD?
Yep. The completely G-rated childhood backstory Pushing Daisies crossover I described in the other thread.
askye - Apr 17, 2022 2:00:27 pm PDT #10298 of 10431
Thrive to spite them
As a voracious fanfic reader, I have never ever read a fic where I thought "Oh, this is longer than originally planned? That blows!"
I agree. Although I have gotten to the end of something and thought "what? That's it? So soon??"
JZ - Apr 18, 2022 11:14:23 am PDT #10299 of 10431
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Done, at almost 12.5K words. I literally don't think I have completed any work of fiction in any form, with a nice distinct beginning, middle and end, in a quarter century. Hec very kindly let me spend the entire weekend deep in my own head, but now that I'm out again I feel a little wobbly.
Dana - Apr 18, 2022 11:39:18 am PDT #10300 of 10431
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
*cheers*
You had fic Pon Farr.
JZ - Apr 18, 2022 11:53:42 am PDT #10301 of 10431
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I just miss writing. I used to do it all the time and feel like this all the time, and now I do it none of the time, except just now. And it was only playing with someone else's toys in someone else's sandbox, but it was words and words and words, and they fit together so beautifully, and I have SO many purely original pieces I've never finished. I still feel gnawing dread that I'll never be able to do it again, but I had a moment near the end of this where I almost stopped too but I pushed through it, so if this, then maybe those?
Dana - Apr 18, 2022 7:45:07 pm PDT #10302 of 10431
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
BTW, if anyone doesn't know my fannish name, you can email me at my profile address. So far for OFMD, I've got a ficlet and a vid.