I really should get one of those for tootling across Cambridge to school in the mornings. I could buy a coordinating helmet and knit a matching scarf!
Gabriel: Are you trying to destroy this family? Simon: I didn't realize it would be so easy.
'Safe'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Theodosia - Oct 17, 2007 4:00:09 am PDT #4479 of 10436
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
esse - Oct 17, 2007 5:13:19 am PDT #4480 of 10436
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
My iPod is called Ithaqua, my PDA is Azathoth, my cell phone is Elsinore, and my fleet of spare hard drives are Vingilot, Apalachacola, Thermopylae, and Phalarope.
I like names.
amych - Oct 17, 2007 6:27:06 am PDT #4481 of 10436
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Highlights include: actual grownups write fic. So do "real" writers. Who don't necessarily stop writing fic when they move on to "real" writing. And they do it because they enjoy it and want to tell the stories. And it's been around for a long time -- before Harry Potter, even! And a lot of the snobbery toward fic looks suspiciously like the snobbery toward any kind of genre writing.
Nobody's Mom's Basement was harmed in the making of this article. I'm vaguely stunned.
Dana - Oct 17, 2007 6:30:19 am PDT #4482 of 10436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Wow, you're right. There is not a single mention of anyone living in a basement. And she got the definition of slash right.
(Though they have Naomi Novik writing fanfiction "as a teen", when she's mentioned in other interviews and the like that she still writes fan fiction.)
amych - Oct 17, 2007 6:59:13 am PDT #4483 of 10436
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I've seen the teen thing re Novik in other places as well -- I suspect it's in some bio somewhere, since she wasn't directly quoted in this article.
eta: I also loved, loved, loved Patrick Neilsen Hayden's quote about "I don't spend a lot of time on fic sites, but if I had more free time..."
Dana - Oct 17, 2007 7:01:06 am PDT #4484 of 10436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I suspect it's in some bio somewhere, since she wasn't directly quoted in this article.
Yeah, that makes sense.
I used to see Debra Doyle all the time on the BetterBuffyFics list.
Theodosia - Oct 17, 2007 7:13:29 am PDT #4485 of 10436
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Debra and her husband are longtime and dear friends of mine, so it was extra-special to open the Living section of the Globe yesterday and see her face beaming at me!
P.M. Marc - Oct 17, 2007 7:16:31 am PDT #4486 of 10436
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I feel like I woke up in bizarro world!
Huh.
Connie Neil - Oct 17, 2007 9:31:41 am PDT #4487 of 10436
brillig
We may get to come out of the writing closet yet.
Dana - Oct 18, 2007 10:58:47 am PDT #4488 of 10436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Should I sign up for the Sports Night Holiday Exchange? Y/N