I am glad that you are excited that I am doing a longer fic. I, myself, am outraged. Heeeeeeeee.
The thing about a longer piece is I don't approach it like that. The words themselves aren't so very important. They can fade into the background, as can the style, so that the ideas and events can be absorbed into the readers' minds in the least distracting way possible.
This is such a good point, and one that I had to learn the really, really hard way, so I wish that we'd talked about two weeks ago. See? Talking is good! Let's talk more about our fics! But yes, I realized at some point, I think, unfortunately, *after* I had pulled out all of my eyebrows in frustration, that I couldn't make every sentence a MASTERPIECE, every turn of phrase a WORK OF GENIUS, or this was going to take forever. Sometimes, Character A says something, you add an adverb after the quote, Character B says something snarky in reply, you add an adjective after the quote, and then they're kissing. Wham, bam, thank you, ma'am.
fuels the desire to write. This sounds like it would be the most important thing, for me.
Yeah, I mean, that's why we talk about our fics, to get the juices flowing in a direction that's not in circles inside our own heads.
I'm excited to hear you're doing a longer fic!
Er, heh. Don't get too excited. It is, believe it or not, a Xander/Connor pleasureslave fic. I know, I know. How I have 10,000 words to say on the subject is a mystery to me, too. I'm really having a lot of fun with it, though, and it *is* the longest thing that I've written/will write that's not AtS No Limits (that is to say, where the characters and plot points and developments are entirely of my own choosing), and I'm finding that I don't suck as much as I thought I did with dialogue, and realizing these things about yourself, breaking those barriers, it's why we write, yeah? That, and the feedback. :)
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The thing about a longer piece is I don't approach it like that. The words themselves aren't so very important. They can fade into the background, as can the style, so that the ideas and events can be absorbed into the readers' minds in the least distracting way possible.
This is such a good point, and one that I had to learn the really, really hard way, so I wish that we'd talked about two weeks ago. See? Talking is good! Let's talk more about our fics! But yes, I realized at some point, I think, unfortunately, *after* I had pulled out all of my eyebrows in frustration, that I couldn't make every sentence a MASTERPIECE, every turn of phrase a WORK OF GENIUS, or this was going to take forever. Sometimes, Character A says something, you add an adverb after the quote, Character B says something snarky in reply, you add an adjective after the quote, and then they're kissing. Wham, bam, thank you, ma'am.
fuels the desire to write.
This sounds like it would be the most important thing, for me.
Yeah, I mean, that's why we talk about our fics, to get the juices flowing in a direction that's not in circles inside our own heads.
I'm excited to hear you're doing a longer fic!
Er, heh. Don't get too excited. It is, believe it or not, a Xander/Connor pleasureslave fic. I know, I know. How I have 10,000 words to say on the subject is a mystery to me, too. I'm really having a lot of fun with it, though, and it *is* the longest thing that I've written/will write that's not AtS No Limits (that is to say, where the characters and plot points and developments are entirely of my own choosing), and I'm finding that I don't suck as much as I thought I did with dialogue, and realizing these things about yourself, breaking those barriers, it's why we write, yeah? That, and the feedback. :)