I came over to your journal to read Best Souvenir on A2zmom's recommendation - really enjoying it
Thanks for reading, and I'm glad you like it.
Love, in the craft sense, the way it leads up to the quotes from "Judgement". (Like doing a jigsaw backwards.) It's like a detailed excavation of what it took to get to that scene.
That was the original intention of this piece--to get them to that scene. But I think the Faith at the end of this fic is more open than the Faith that busts out of prison with Wes in AtS S4, so I don't think she quite got to this point in the show. Then again, what's going on in Faith's head often puzzles me ;o) I'm glad the backwards jigsaw worked for you.
And also the fact that you go to the place where the character's stream-of-consciousness is outrageously, involuntarily, scarily obscene. Must be a difficult place to go as a writer, with such a degree of conviction and honesty
I dislike first person because most of the time, I'm wondering why the narrator would ever tell me what they're telling me. In the case of someone like Faith, that question nearly makes the story itself an impossibility, imo. So, I decided to try it anyway, but to show that inside Faith's mind you're not welcome. Nor are you comfotable. I wanted it to be a threatening, scary place to be--which is hard in the world of fandom, because, as you say, fic is by nature boundary-pushing. For that reason, I'm SO glad you found parts of this obscene. My work here is done ;o)
At the beginning I got pulled up a little by some of Faith's thoughts being expressed in such a literary manner. But by the end I was sold on it.
Tickled you think so. Originally, I had intended to write the piece entirely in Faith's voice. However, the ending was one of the first things I wrote, and I realized you just can't say some of that stuff in Faith's voice, no matter how much she might feel it. What I tried to do was introduce the "author's voice" gradually, so you still felt like you were listening to Faith by the end. It's nice to have a reader point out that duality and what's more, like it. ;o)
"Think of what your eyes are doing right now—moving left to right, left to right. Think. I am with you, right here, in this very moment." Intricate.
If you ever have any time, I think you'd like the book Jazz. The idea at the end is very similar, and Toni Morrison does facinating things with narratorial/authorial voice, stream of consciousness, et al.
Thanks so much for your comments. It's such a pleasure having such an insightful reader.
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Thanks for reading, and I'm glad you like it.
Love, in the craft sense, the way it leads up to the quotes from "Judgement". (Like doing a jigsaw backwards.) It's like a detailed excavation of what it took to get to that scene.
That was the original intention of this piece--to get them to that scene. But I think the Faith at the end of this fic is more open than the Faith that busts out of prison with Wes in AtS S4, so I don't think she quite got to this point in the show. Then again, what's going on in Faith's head often puzzles me ;o) I'm glad the backwards jigsaw worked for you.
And also the fact that you go to the place where the character's stream-of-consciousness is outrageously, involuntarily, scarily obscene. Must be a difficult place to go as a writer, with such a degree of conviction and honesty
I dislike first person because most of the time, I'm wondering why the narrator would ever tell me what they're telling me. In the case of someone like Faith, that question nearly makes the story itself an impossibility, imo. So, I decided to try it anyway, but to show that inside Faith's mind you're not welcome. Nor are you comfotable. I wanted it to be a threatening, scary place to be--which is hard in the world of fandom, because, as you say, fic is by nature boundary-pushing. For that reason, I'm SO glad you found parts of this obscene. My work here is done ;o)
At the beginning I got pulled up a little by some of Faith's thoughts being expressed in such a literary manner. But by the end I was sold on it.
Tickled you think so. Originally, I had intended to write the piece entirely in Faith's voice. However, the ending was one of the first things I wrote, and I realized you just can't say some of that stuff in Faith's voice, no matter how much she might feel it. What I tried to do was introduce the "author's voice" gradually, so you still felt like you were listening to Faith by the end. It's nice to have a reader point out that duality and what's more, like it. ;o)
"Think of what your eyes are doing right now—moving left to right, left to right. Think. I am with you, right here, in this very moment." Intricate.
If you ever have any time, I think you'd like the book Jazz. The idea at the end is very similar, and Toni Morrison does facinating things with narratorial/authorial voice, stream of consciousness, et al.
Thanks so much for your comments. It's such a pleasure having such an insightful reader.