Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
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I'm pretty impressed. The story is a fairly solid case fic with good brotherly moments, even in the rough draft. I haven't had a chance to re-read after it was beta-read.
I don't think it really registered with her that it was any kind of Big Deal. It seemed more of a "oh, this looks neat, I think I'll try it!"
Oh, I didn't mean it was a bad story, just that doing all that on your first fic is ... ambitious!
I'm glad it's a good story!
Maybe they could procreate, Amy? I'm not sure what shape the child of an unfinished fic and a partial sketch look like, but hopefully they have potential.
I just went to look at what "making a list" would entail. So, there's the "sketches in progress" folder-small, eleven deep. I don't know why there are a couple mod & rockers sketches filed in the unlabelled folder, but let me move those into "ideas" which I'm going to measure in cm deep, not number of pages--that's about 1.25 now. I popped it open to refresh my memory, and 30 or so of them are even post-it flagged with notes from when I scanned them in to show Amy what was on the back burner. Back oven. Back ovens. That was ambitious too. But why the fuck do I also have an "unfinished" folder? Post it flags too--"shoes need more sexy!"
That's not counting "Oh, I could do a pair, then--one set in S4 and one set in S9" and "what about this reference?" comments that get tucked into emails to Amy or my sister, or photographs of my work or TV screens or someone else's magazine that are filed electronically. Or the web application that I've set up to manage reference pictures, where more than 50% of the reference pictures are there because they gave me a picture idea.
How the FUCK does one do this efficiently?
At least I only have three abandoned fics.
Anne, you had an author send you reference photos? That's amazing! So often that's what I need to get traction, or to get polished, when I can't make my idea hit the paper right, and getting concrete (ish) input from someone else involved in birthing the shared work can be better than what your own brain or research can provide, by virtue of not being entrenched in the grooves you've dug out in your head (of course, they can also be worse, because they can set up expectations you absolutely can't fulfill, but yours sounds like a win).
Most of the authors I've banged with have been newbs, and most of the experiences have been great. I think I prefer that gamble to getting something from Misha's favourite minion, because respiration is unimpeded, even if they turn out to be nigh-incoherent like my one DCBB experience (go figure! Ruby and Gabriel were much better experiences!).
Next year, maybe, back on the challenge train. I was so irritated by not having a reasonable shot at J2SPN that I stopped looking at LJ, and since I don't post there except for monthly batches, I'm way out of touch. I'm looking forward to seeing your work, Anne.
Good on you, Anne! I'd love to see it, if you are so inclined.
Oh, I didn't mean it was a bad story, just that doing all that on your first fic is ... ambitious!
Don't worry, I didn't think that's what you meant! It's just that I was impressed by the quality for a first fic, and I think she didn't even register that a Big Bang is considered ambitious.
As soon as the post goes live, I'll link it up.
she didn't even register that a Big Bang is considered ambitious
It's right there in the name! Not small!
You know when you do something, and you like it and/or are proud of it, and it makes no ripples whatsoever, and there's other stuff you've done that had less invested, or was easier, or is just *less* to you, and it's epically frustrating, because you can't work out what the magic is between you and the audience that you missed here (or worse, you do know, but it's not something you can change--either because it's your limit, or because it's the fandom temperature, or whatever)?
Everybody has one (or a million) of those, right? I bring it up because I thought I drew a sexy ass the other day, and no one audibly cares for my ass. So you show me the thing you did that failed to resonate proportionately, and I'll show you my sexy ass.
Deal?
(If it's fic and not short, I'll read it this weekend, otherwise I want to grill you immediately about the nature of your relationship to it)
(It doesn't have to be Supernatural--I'm (lit/nat)tering in the thread just because the ass on my mind is SPNass--(pity me here and) SHOW US SOMETHING)
I worked on that ass! (non-explicit nudity, ergo NSFW)
I can't draw a straight line, but the back looks awesome. I always envisioned Sam's ass as perkier, but I think the picture is great.
That's some yummy musculature, ita !, and I like you captured the way things would shift with one leg set a little further back than the other.
In terms of work of mine that didn't resonate the way I had hoped, the John backstory I wrote two years back felt like that for a good long while. But, when I went to look at the feedback, it was more than respectable. I think it was because the time/effort/emotion that went into it wasn't greeted with immediate feedback that felt in any way proportional. That was a valuable lesson.
Anyhow, here are the links to the two BBs I did this year (I ended up picking up a story in the second round of claims - what was I thinking?):
I am SO jealous of people who can draw! Nice work, Anne!
That is such remarkable range, Anne, and I definitely envy your polish.