Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.

Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers  

This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.


P.M. Marc - Feb 11, 2003 1:10:26 pm PST #3557 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Ah, but I expect you also edited it and revised it and treated it as something worthy of your time.

I typed and spell-checked?

When I sent them out for real, I did a read-through first. Found a couple typos I missed when they were up for Slash Advent.

Pieces for me are either sudden can't-type-fast-enough bits or long, painful, horrible labours of love. (Triptych was the former, Absolution the latter.)

Hmm. I guess the difference is that when I'm writing quickly, it's not to distract myself from something like chem class, it's because there are words attacking me from all sides.


Connie Neil - Feb 11, 2003 1:15:54 pm PST #3558 of 10000
brillig

I think I like the "wake up in the middle of the night, where's the pen?" stories better than the ones I have to wander around the house muttering about. I can remember the zing of inspiration and how easy the story flowed as opposed to the hours of plot manipulation. Then again, writing an AU that's not too over-the-top is surprisingly tricky. I know what I WANT Xander and Spike to be doing, but laying the groundwork so it doesn't look stupid when/if it finally happens (uncooperative twits) is tricky--but fun.


Fay - Feb 11, 2003 2:08:17 pm PST #3559 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Ooooooh! Hey, I've just had a thought!

I've been in the barren wilderness of mostly-ficless-busy-reality this past month, but unless matters have changed drastically, AJ Hall should be bringing out a new Draco/Neville piece on Valentine's Day! I think it's supposed to be the how-they-got-together story!

Please, deities, let nothing interfere with this?


Connie Neil - Feb 11, 2003 2:11:49 pm PST #3560 of 10000
brillig

Yes!!! WOOHOO!!


Holli - Feb 11, 2003 4:16:37 pm PST #3561 of 10000
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore

I was talking to an HP fan today who confessed to reading slash, so I steered her LOP-wards quick as a bunny. Where do I go to claim my toaster?


Fay - Feb 11, 2003 4:26:00 pm PST #3562 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

I have several spare ones, Holli - would you like to take your pick?


Holli - Feb 11, 2003 4:35:01 pm PST #3563 of 10000
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore

I'm a bit worried about the fact that I'm pimping fic in fandoms I don't even write or participate in. Especially because I might eventually end up doing both, and that way lies.... well, being Shrift. Which would be cool, but seems more stressful than I'd like.


askye - Feb 11, 2003 4:40:50 pm PST #3564 of 10000
Thrive to spite them

I got the BBF digest today and threw out an email. I probably shouldn't have but I saw red.

The whole "oh but if the writer is recced once but not the other times she's needed and then she finds her work criticized how harmful that can be" just got to me.

Plus I'm bitchy and pmsing.

But this whole "oh poor person, it will destroy them if someone says something about their work." How else do people expect to get better as writers? I mean really, if that's what they want, to get better as writers how else do they expect it to happen than to learn what their writing flaws are and fix them.

Do they think there is a magic writing fairy that comes along and slips the good stories under some writers pillows and not others? Sort of a reverse Tooth Fairy?

And the Good Writers, the BNF writers or whatever are treated special by the Magic Writing Fairy and the rest of them are gipped?


Connie Neil - Feb 11, 2003 4:43:00 pm PST #3565 of 10000
brillig

Do they think there is a magic writing fairy that comes along and slips the good stories under some writers pillows and not others? Sort of a reverse Tooth Fairy?

Where is she! Where is the rotten little tease?


askye - Feb 11, 2003 4:44:02 pm PST #3566 of 10000
Thrive to spite them

The bitch sure as hell passed me over when I lost the last draft of my story.