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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.


P.M. Marc - Jul 08, 2015 5:54:46 am PDT #9687 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Also, while I respect the honesty of tagging "old fic reworked into a new fandom", you get an automatic skip.

OMG, THAT'S HOW I FOUND THE WACKY ARCHIVE OF JOURNEY RPF!

The reworked story (which really was reworked and different and decent) was in SPN, and I was curious about the story they'd reworked and... yeah.

Archive of Journey RPF. This is pre-AO3.

I've determined, because really, all I think about is writing these days, as thinking is easier than doing at times, that I find it much harder to, in 3rd limited present tense with a male POV, use the character name than I do in 3rd limited present with a female POV. I have no actual conclusions about this, and while I haven't done a lot of 3rd limited past tense from a male POV recently (I've done... about 300 words of it in one timestamp in my research folder), it doesn't appear to be a problem in there.

It mostly just struck me as weird.

Of course, wow, writing longform, you learn a lot about your writing tics.


Dana - Jul 08, 2015 6:12:08 am PDT #9688 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I will mention one more time before offering them up to the internet at large: I have two copies of last year's VVC DVD set. Does anyone need one?


Kiba Rika - Jul 10, 2015 2:37:35 am PDT #9689 of 10434
I may have to seize the cat.

Plei, it was an oldish comment, probably. Maybe on a Darcy/Steve married in Vegas fic? I can't remember.


P.M. Marc - Jul 10, 2015 7:05:07 am PDT #9690 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

That doesn't sound like me. I actively avoid 99.75% of Darcy fic. Like, I will hit it if it is femslash, fucking weird, or by a friend I trust a lot. I mean, it is possible! But doesn't sound like something I would read.


P.M. Marc - Jul 10, 2015 7:05:41 am PDT #9691 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Though there is someone on AO3 using my real name as a pseud.


Kiba Rika - Jul 10, 2015 8:54:03 am PDT #9692 of 10434
I may have to seize the cat.

I was reading a ton of blithers's stuff in rapid succession. Now I want to track this down. Nay, I'm GOING to track it down.

Ah. It was New Girl. I thought it was you, but maybe I'm wrong?


P.M. Marc - Jul 10, 2015 3:36:51 pm PDT #9693 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Yes! That was me!


P.M. Marc - Jul 10, 2015 3:38:57 pm PDT #9694 of 10434
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 was reading a lot of sitcom fic in 2013.


Kiba Rika - Jul 11, 2015 6:50:32 am PDT #9695 of 10434
I may have to seize the cat.

I wrote some New Girl stuff. Nothing as good as blithers, though.


P.M. Marc - Aug 08, 2015 10:13:19 am PDT #9696 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

HEY! Long-form writers: how do you approach your re-writes?