I would love to take a machete to DW's work. Because there's good story there, but it's lost in the weeds too often.
I seem to recall a long story she was posting that started off with a target of 15 parts, and within a couple of months it was being posted as Part 35/?, which is just... no. You have got to have at least a clue how big a story is when you start it. I don't know how big it ended up, but it was clearly going to be at least 3 times the size it was originally estimated, which reads to me as someone who doesn't have much control over their writing process. And possibly easily distracted by the shiny.
She had a pretty interesting AU a couple years back, in which John got amnesia and ended up in a small town in Oregon, and I liked much of it (I mostly like her characterizations), but after a while she fell in love with all her OCs and it became an original story with the Winchesters as recurring characters, which wasn't what I was in the mood for. And the plot sloooooowwweeed to a crawl.
Ah. Well, okay, you folks have evidently read MUCH more of her stuff than I have. Fair enough.
Delurking over breakfast to say: the reason I don't care for Dodger Winslow is that in a anonymized ficathon I guessed which was her story immediately. Because it was the only one with a hinky social-class-and-parenting rant in the middle of it. Even if she were able to be concise, she has no
shape
of story. They're all bent and crooked as the ego-ideal expands to cram everything else into the corners.
Not surprisingly, her appearances on Fandom Wank and the rants she places within her stories read exactly the same way.
Oh, hah, and guess who's in the first link on Fandom Wank right now. I had no idea.
I am reading centaur fic...
::scratches head::
And I think I'm enjoying it.
I'm about halfway through S1 of Dexter, and I need fic. I've read all the novels, and am surprised (but happy!) with how the show deviates from the novels. So now I want fic. Anyone have any recs?
Alas, no. But I just read
Finding Nemo
slash, and it was very good. Um. Just needed to share that with y'all.
Marlin/Gill? Peach/Deb? Jacques/Bubbles?
I don't even know why I'm asking!
I'm disturbed that my mind went to a Led Zeppelin/red snapper place.
Nemo/Gill.
(Grown up Nemo, I hasten to add.)
It is both disarming and surprisingly instructive. (The little link at the end to information about the sexuality and developmental stages of clown fish certainly had me going 'Gosh!')
