I like these posts. Lovely chances to blither about ourselves. :)
Yeah, exactly. As someone who's kinda shy about talking about herself unless she gets at least a little invitation...well, I wanna give a lotta invitation!
For me, poetry is the fastest way to an intellectual high.
This is so bizarre to me. I take weeks to write a single poem. And can hammer out a 80,000 word fic I'm pretty pleased with in the same amount of time.
For stories, I like unsettling myself with strange challenges
This is such a cool approach. All my shorter stories have been the same way, me saying: hey, wonder if I can do this. The long shippy fics I used to write and fics like Best Souvenir don't have that aspect to them at all.
I wrote post-NFA Spuffy because I needed to know if it was possible. (Still not sure.) (The Bangel is taking so long because I don't think it's possible, but damned if I can't sell it to my readers!)
Heh. One day I'm going to write post NFA Spuffy to see if it's possible. And I don't care if you don't think the B/A is possible; sell it to meeee! ;o)
As for style, at present I'm figuring out what I want out of my signature "voice", and aiming to hone it. macha3 said recently, "stulti's writing style in both pieces careens along with poorly-suppressed glee,"
I saw that somewhere and I completely agree. There's a sense of fun in your writing, a cleverness and a sharpness and a...it reminds me of someone(thing), but I can't quite think what.
I wish I had a "signature voice." I really don't. I can work in different styles (or try to) but the only voice that naturally comes out would be what you got if you took Best Souvenir and removed all the parts where it slips into free indirect Buffy voice: kind of dull.
Otoh, there are stories I've read and failed to feed because they're too good, or rather, they provoked too complex a reaction. I feel like I should take time with fb for those, give a gift to the author,
I take time with those, but not as a gift to the author. If I enjoyed the story and was impressed by it, I consider my fb like a "gift". But if I'm blown away by it, overwhelmed by it, truly touched by it, I use my fb as a vehicle to figure out how the story worked, why it worked on me, how it fits together, what it's doing. I do that with everything I read that really affects me in some way; I figure, why not let the author take a peek? And I truly believe that kind of analysis has helped me to become a better writer.
The disclaiming is annoying; I should stop.
I'd have to agree. Not because it's annoying (I don't find it so) so much as because I've noticed when you've done it that it's untrue or unnecessary. As you say. So it makes you seem either disingenuous or possessed of a low self-esteem, and while I suppose it's possible you might be both, from what I know of you you're neither.
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Yeah, exactly. As someone who's kinda shy about talking about herself unless she gets at least a little invitation...well, I wanna give a lotta invitation!
For me, poetry is the fastest way to an intellectual high.
This is so bizarre to me. I take weeks to write a single poem. And can hammer out a 80,000 word fic I'm pretty pleased with in the same amount of time.
For stories, I like unsettling myself with strange challenges
This is such a cool approach. All my shorter stories have been the same way, me saying: hey, wonder if I can do this. The long shippy fics I used to write and fics like Best Souvenir don't have that aspect to them at all.
I wrote post-NFA Spuffy because I needed to know if it was possible. (Still not sure.) (The Bangel is taking so long because I don't think it's possible, but damned if I can't sell it to my readers!)
Heh. One day I'm going to write post NFA Spuffy to see if it's possible. And I don't care if you don't think the B/A is possible; sell it to meeee! ;o)
As for style, at present I'm figuring out what I want out of my signature "voice", and aiming to hone it. macha3 said recently, "stulti's writing style in both pieces careens along with poorly-suppressed glee,"
I saw that somewhere and I completely agree. There's a sense of fun in your writing, a cleverness and a sharpness and a...it reminds me of someone(thing), but I can't quite think what.
I wish I had a "signature voice." I really don't. I can work in different styles (or try to) but the only voice that naturally comes out would be what you got if you took Best Souvenir and removed all the parts where it slips into free indirect Buffy voice: kind of dull.
Otoh, there are stories I've read and failed to feed because they're too good, or rather, they provoked too complex a reaction. I feel like I should take time with fb for those, give a gift to the author,
I take time with those, but not as a gift to the author. If I enjoyed the story and was impressed by it, I consider my fb like a "gift". But if I'm blown away by it, overwhelmed by it, truly touched by it, I use my fb as a vehicle to figure out how the story worked, why it worked on me, how it fits together, what it's doing. I do that with everything I read that really affects me in some way; I figure, why not let the author take a peek? And I truly believe that kind of analysis has helped me to become a better writer.
The disclaiming is annoying; I should stop.
I'd have to agree. Not because it's annoying (I don't find it so) so much as because I've noticed when you've done it that it's untrue or unnecessary. As you say. So it makes you seem either disingenuous or possessed of a low self-esteem, and while I suppose it's possible you might be both, from what I know of you you're neither.