Mal: Well, you were right about this being a bad idea. Zoe: Thanks for sayin', sir.

'Serenity'


Buffista Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies  

Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.


Gris - Sep 10, 2004 12:25:17 pm PDT #9627 of 10001
Hey. New board.

Well, they're not children, for one thing.

(shrug) I guess that depends on your definition. They're still very young and inexperienced, and pretty durned immature. I consider myself to still be pretty much a child in a lot of ways, and I'm five years older than Ginny in this story. It's not an insult, I swear, but they're definitely still adolescents at least.

Anyway, I did get something that actually works, I think. As long as the vulnerability is played up, Ginny asking Hermione to sleep with her doesn't seem too wrong. It may need more buildup to work - I might have to add more to the scene, or throw in a small scene in the middle maybe. I'll have to think about it. If you want to see the changes I've made, they're up in the same place ( [link] ) with all the Brit-crit changes and the rewritten third section. No new material, yet.

Thanks again for reading!


Gris - Sep 12, 2004 12:44:09 pm PDT #9628 of 10001
Hey. New board.

I had to fix a canon issue, so I did, but then I had too much exposition. So I had to show some of it, as we all know that showing is better than telling. So I had to write a new scene, but that made a later scene make less sense. So I had to modify THAT scene, extensively, in order to make everything work.

This writing thing is complicated.

Anyway, I think it works. I still haven't added anything to the central storyline, really, but there is a whole lot of new stuff in there for such a small story. It's about 1600 words, now, and I hope I can get somebody out there to read it and comment (I know Fay is all busy now that the weekend is ending/over.)

Still Harry Potter, still Hermione/Ginny from Hermione POV, still rated PG or so. I intend for it to be what I call a hopeless-romantic-piece, meaning Curtains Close on a Kiss (God knows) so it probably won't ever get any more explicit than the sweetness and light level it's at now.

[link]

ETA: I hope nobody tried to read it before this edit (3:10 Pacific) as I only just actually changed the link to the right thing. Oops.


deborah grabien - Sep 12, 2004 8:49:48 pm PDT #9629 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

This week's Open on Sunday challenge is transportation.

Shmoop warning.

When I Was On Horseback

She sang, and the wind sang with her, lifting her hair off her neck, warming her, cooling her. Beneath her, the big gelding felt her ease up on the reins, and jumped from canter to thundering gallop, his lethal hooves sending up dark clumps of the loamy Devon soil.

When she returned, Giles saw the horse was sweating. He said nothing, but Willow caught his look.

"Sorry," she said. "I'll rub him down. He's such an amazing way to get from point A to point B."

"Willow, is there something wrong?"

"Yes." Her voice fractured. "Tara would have loved this."


Gris - Sep 12, 2004 8:50:52 pm PDT #9630 of 10001
Hey. New board.

t loves the schmoop

t sniffles. Or would if weren't still giggling from silly movie.

Awww. Tara WOULD have loved that.

Maybe I'll join Open on Sunday.


deborah grabien - Sep 12, 2004 8:55:32 pm PDT #9631 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

It's a good community for drabbles. But it demands 100 words exactly.


Gris - Sep 12, 2004 8:59:44 pm PDT #9632 of 10001
Hey. New board.

I kind of like that demand, actually. Been thoroughly enjoying hp100.


deborah grabien - Sep 12, 2004 9:06:32 pm PDT #9633 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Excellent disciplinary tool, that demand - I find it hones things, and not only in writing fic, but also in fiction.


deborah grabien - Sep 12, 2004 9:38:18 pm PDT #9634 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Another transportation drabble.

Because It's There

One hand over the the other. No pitons, no ropes.

The monastery is halfway up Lhotse's north face. He's left the building quickly, neither knowing nor caring whether the Buddhist monks were puzzled. He suspects not - they're very wise.

Limned in ice crystals far below, the Khumbu Icefall is a cathedral of frozen trilithons. He stands shivering, halfway between Tibet and eternity. The ragged unmistakeable summit of Everest, fabulous against the evening sky, is suddenly obscured by blowing cloud.

Then the moon breaks the surface, gibbous, golden, and full.

And suddenly, Oz is travelling on four legs, not two.


Gris - Sep 12, 2004 9:39:38 pm PDT #9635 of 10001
Hey. New board.

Well, my first try is not nearly so poignant. I'm not so good at poignant.

Van

When most people saw the van, they didn't get it. It was dirty, and ugly, and it kinda smelled funny. About half the time it didn't start on the first try, the brakes pulled to the right, and it drank gas like a kalthar demon. (Though, luckily, the van didn't season it with human blood.)

When Willow saw it, she got it. Immediately. The van was like its owner. Simple, useful, and it always pulled through in the end. And, inside, it was soft and warm and comforting - even the smell.

His van had character, and that character was Oz.


deborah grabien - Sep 12, 2004 9:41:23 pm PDT #9636 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

they didn't it

A word missing?

It's a neat piece, it is.