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Anyway.
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10. Rocks fall. Everyone dies. I have a noted tendency to kill characters off as often as possible. Case in point: In One Lonely Night, only two characters make an appearance; one of them dies (mostly implied) at the end.nikiness and szhismine banded together to make me write a sequel. I think they were expecting me to fix everything. Instead I killed off the other character, too. *cough*
9. Bizarre stylistic choices. Like the overuse of strikethroughs and parentheses in Ask Me No Questions, or the joke motif in A Bad Joke, or The World Will Break Your Heart which is told backwards, or The End of the World which is second person and not actually bizarre but certainly not common.
8. No plot. I can't write plotty fics, that's all.
7. Focus on obscure characters. One word: Sinjin. Admittedly I have written about many, many other minor and obscure characters, but he has to be the most obscure. *pets him* (Shea! We must write the Quinnel Files! We must!)
6. Little to no description. It drives teh Niki crazy, I know, because she's told me so many, many times. And then there was the time she read through a story on my hard drive and asked me a question about it and I told her it was something I was betaing for somebody else. And she went "Oh. That explains it. I was wondering when you'd learned to write description."
5. Unhealthy romantic relationships. Drug use, adultery, codependency, resentment, misunderstandings, abandonment--seriously, can anyone think of any time that I have written a romantic relationship that didn't have Severe Issues?
4. Overuse of the present tense. I like writing stories in the present tense. It gives them more of an immediacy. And sometimes that fixes the...
3. ...flow issues. I tend towards choppy and jumpy, woe.
2. Strange syntax choices. Which is not such a big deal when it passes through teh Niki's betaing hands, because she knows how my mind works and can catch all my weird sentence structures and fix them. But when I post unbetaed pieces, people tend to pull out sentences and go, "...what does that mean?"
1. Suspended endings. I like suspended endings! I like cliffhangers, too, but they're something different and I like suspended endings better. That's why you get There Are No Happy Endings which establishes what didn't happen but not what did, and In The Mood which leaves it at "things change" but doesn't even touch on what happens to Jack and Tosh back in the present, and One Song Glory which still tears me up to think about and I can't believe I did that to poor Charlie.
Found in a comment on an LJ community: There is a difference between loving someone and being in love with someone. I love my friends but I don't want to hop into bed with them.
I'm not linking to either the post where it was commented or the user who said it, because I know what they meant and I agree with what they meant and um. :/ I'm probably crazy for taking offense to it.
Srsly, I understand what they mean. Love does not necessarily mean romantic love, even if our culture as a whole tends to use the two terms interchangeably.
But wanting to hop into bed with someone =/= romantic love either.
Um. I guess I mean sexual attraction =/= romantic attraction =/= romantic love? But just like people tend to assume that love = romantic love, they also assume that love = romantic love = romantic attraction = sexual attraction. And despite the fact that the first kind of love (non-romantic, non-sexual) is the only kind I'm personally interested in, it still bothers me that people think that they're all interchangeable.
This shouldn't annoy me so much. But it's three-thirty in the morning and I'm not tired, I reserve the right to be a bit whiny.
I have an inexplicable urge to write fic about the Arbiter. *blink* Not that it's not a good idea--among other reasons for it being Not A Bad Idea, I think all other Chess fic has focused on the Freddy/Florence/Anatoly/Svetlana group, plus maybe Molokov and/or Walter, and I admit the idea of being the first person to write Arbiter fic is amusing--but a) I'd have to find a starting point, first, and as awesome a line as Don't try to bribe me, you've no hope/I don't like women, I don't take dope is, I don't know how I'd go from that to a fic.
On the other hand, I did manage to writeten nine fics about Lost's Sinjin, who had about ten seconds of screentime and no lines at all, so maybe I could pull it off.
And b) I still have The Trial of Brendan Lahey,rommies_voice's Harper/Rommie fic, ninja_headcrab's cat!Jack fic, and...I think something else that I'm forgetting to write. At least I dropped my ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ot3_100 claim so that's not stressing me out anymore, but still, I would like to cut down my current to-do list before going on to new projects. *poke*
Meh. We'll see what happens. If I can come up with a starting place I'll write the Arbiter fic and try and work on the others as well.
...It's three-thirty in the morning! Somebody send me to bed!!
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trascendenza10. Rocks fall. Everyone dies. I have a noted tendency to kill characters off as often as possible. Case in point: In One Lonely Night, only two characters make an appearance; one of them dies (mostly implied) at the end.
nikiness and szhismine banded together to make me write a sequel. I think they were expecting me to fix everything. Instead I killed off the other character, too. *cough*9. Bizarre stylistic choices. Like the overuse of strikethroughs and parentheses in Ask Me No Questions, or the joke motif in A Bad Joke, or The World Will Break Your Heart which is told backwards, or The End of the World which is second person and not actually bizarre but certainly not common.
8. No plot. I can't write plotty fics, that's all.
7. Focus on obscure characters. One word: Sinjin. Admittedly I have written about many, many other minor and obscure characters, but he has to be the most obscure. *pets him* (Shea! We must write the Quinnel Files! We must!)
6. Little to no description. It drives teh Niki crazy, I know, because she's told me so many, many times. And then there was the time she read through a story on my hard drive and asked me a question about it and I told her it was something I was betaing for somebody else. And she went "Oh. That explains it. I was wondering when you'd learned to write description."
5. Unhealthy romantic relationships. Drug use, adultery, codependency, resentment, misunderstandings, abandonment--seriously, can anyone think of any time that I have written a romantic relationship that didn't have Severe Issues?
4. Overuse of the present tense. I like writing stories in the present tense. It gives them more of an immediacy. And sometimes that fixes the...
3. ...flow issues. I tend towards choppy and jumpy, woe.
2. Strange syntax choices. Which is not such a big deal when it passes through teh Niki's betaing hands, because she knows how my mind works and can catch all my weird sentence structures and fix them. But when I post unbetaed pieces, people tend to pull out sentences and go, "...what does that mean?"
1. Suspended endings. I like suspended endings! I like cliffhangers, too, but they're something different and I like suspended endings better. That's why you get There Are No Happy Endings which establishes what didn't happen but not what did, and In The Mood which leaves it at "things change" but doesn't even touch on what happens to Jack and Tosh back in the present, and One Song Glory which still tears me up to think about and I can't believe I did that to poor Charlie.
Found in a comment on an LJ community: There is a difference between loving someone and being in love with someone. I love my friends but I don't want to hop into bed with them.
I'm not linking to either the post where it was commented or the user who said it, because I know what they meant and I agree with what they meant and um. :/ I'm probably crazy for taking offense to it.
Srsly, I understand what they mean. Love does not necessarily mean romantic love, even if our culture as a whole tends to use the two terms interchangeably.
But wanting to hop into bed with someone =/= romantic love either.
Um. I guess I mean sexual attraction =/= romantic attraction =/= romantic love? But just like people tend to assume that love = romantic love, they also assume that love = romantic love = romantic attraction = sexual attraction. And despite the fact that the first kind of love (non-romantic, non-sexual) is the only kind I'm personally interested in, it still bothers me that people think that they're all interchangeable.
This shouldn't annoy me so much. But it's three-thirty in the morning and I'm not tired, I reserve the right to be a bit whiny.
I have an inexplicable urge to write fic about the Arbiter. *blink* Not that it's not a good idea--among other reasons for it being Not A Bad Idea, I think all other Chess fic has focused on the Freddy/Florence/Anatoly/Svetlana group, plus maybe Molokov and/or Walter, and I admit the idea of being the first person to write Arbiter fic is amusing--but a) I'd have to find a starting point, first, and as awesome a line as Don't try to bribe me, you've no hope/I don't like women, I don't take dope is, I don't know how I'd go from that to a fic.
On the other hand, I did manage to write
And b) I still have The Trial of Brendan Lahey,
rommies_voice's Harper/Rommie fic, ninja_headcrab's cat!Jack fic, and...I think something else that I'm forgetting to write. At least I dropped my ot3_100 claim so that's not stressing me out anymore, but still, I would like to cut down my current to-do list before going on to new projects. *poke*Meh. We'll see what happens. If I can come up with a starting place I'll write the Arbiter fic and try and work on the others as well.
...It's three-thirty in the morning! Somebody send me to bed!!
