fic help: my google fu is failing me on staffing/employment as a US Attorney (Organized Crime Strike Force). Levels of heirarchy, who does what, where a guy in his late twenties would be positioned, etc.
We have to see the chimp playing hockey! That's hilarious! The ice is so slippery, and, and monkeys are all irrational. We have to see this!
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
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.
Juliebird - Sep 07, 2011 1:23:35 pm PDT #7369 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
WindSparrow - Sep 09, 2011 9:05:25 am PDT #7370 of 10434
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Consuela, I still have some trepidation about Narnia fic, but am willing to trust you, so I am poking my nose into some of them. As for "I Love Not the Man But Nature More", how can I resist at least trying a fic that uses
“Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive… We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land'."as an epigraph.
Consuela - Sep 09, 2011 9:56:00 am PDT #7371 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Hah! It is a cute epigraph, but I don't think it fits the story, which is rather... primal, and not silly at all.
Consuela - Sep 09, 2011 12:27:32 pm PDT #7372 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Woops. I'm writing a story that either lots of people will love, or I'll get hate-mail for.
... possibly both.
WindSparrow - Sep 10, 2011 3:26:03 pm PDT #7373 of 10434
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Woops. I'm writing a story that either lots of people will love, or I'll get hate-mail for.
I told someone else, elsewhere, to write for the sake of the story they wanted to tell. Writing is one thing; getting it to an audience is another. That won't protect you from a virtual mob set to run you out of the internet on a rail, of course. I'm not sure what would - sometimes there are mobs in search of a convenient target.
Consuela - Sep 10, 2011 4:19:44 pm PDT #7374 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, I posted it, and (so far) all the comments have been positive.
But really the question is whether I'm willing to post it on FFN. This is a pagan story, and the FFN Narnia community is, generally, really into the whole Christian allegory.
Here's the story, btw: [link]
SailAweigh - Sep 10, 2011 7:50:57 pm PDT #7375 of 10434
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Really nice, 'suela! I left a comment for you on AO3.
Consuela - Sep 10, 2011 8:49:26 pm PDT #7376 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Thanks, sail! I'm still a bit dissatisfied with it, but it pretty much did what I wanted it to.
Anne W. - Sep 11, 2011 2:37:39 am PDT #7377 of 10434
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Out of curiosity, how are you dissatisfied with it? Nothing jumped out at me as I was reading it (I've been reccing it to some friends, btw).
Consuela - Sep 11, 2011 9:15:10 am PDT #7378 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Thank you, Anne!
how are you dissatisfied with it?
I think the setup with the sacred lion is too obvious. I think the prose is a bit clunky and boringly structured--too much subject-verb-object. (It's something I really need to work on.) I think the whole thing could have been built more gradually. I think Lucy gets sidelined and Susan needed more to do at the beginning, although she shines at the end. I'm not sure I got across the difference in the way Aslan's sacrifice worked--that this is a Narnia in which the willing sacrifice is the greatest source of power. Oh, and I didn't really know how to end it, which is why you get the switchover to the omniscient POV there for the funeral scene.
That said, I also didn't really want to spend 10 or 15,000 words on a story that ends on such a downer. Some stories just have to be told and not dithered over. If I hadn't posted it, it probably would have sat on my hard drive for a year.