Roaring Snow As Sand: Author's Commentary
A friend of mine did a fanvid and then wrote up this giant "Director's Commentary" thing for it that I enjoyed a whole lot, and so I decided I would try that for this story, which aaaaaaaaaaaate my braaaaaaaaaaaaaain. So if you're bored or secretly care about what goes on inside my pseudonymous head or whatever, you can enjoy reading this! I had
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I write very little fanfiction --- well these days I write very little original fiction too, so that doesn't say that much. :P But there are some things that are very different for me about my work in different genres that are hard to carry over --- for me it's not tense, but length of scenes? If I had been writing this as not-fan-fiction it would have been so much longer because I would have felt the need to set the stage a lot more clearly and build things up really slowly and all of the scenes would have been like 3000-6000 words instead of 500-2000. But here that's a problem; we all know what the pokemon universe looks like and that's generally not what we're here to see.
I think that's part of why the Arceus thing doesn't work (aside from the obvious "wrote it the two days before the deadline and found myself in a corner" kind of storytelling issues, which are totally there) --- it breaks the assumptions that you have about what sort of things can happen in the story and doesn't provide much explanation about what new set of things might be happening instead. (Incidentally this is another thing I liked about your story --- I think you did a great job of setting and massaging those assumptions in the first few scenes.)
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Yes, that makes perfect sense. Original fiction and fanfiction are pretty different from one another in a lot of ways, and it makes sense that the way you tell those stories are different as well.
Yeah, that's probably true. I mean, I read that scene with the Hiker a few times, and the thought of cloning never even popped into my mind. I didn't even consider it. But once I read that that was what you intended, it totally clicked into place, and I do think that it was a brilliant plot twist. Just. Gah. Cloned Arceus! I really, really love that idea. (Also, blushing like mad at your praise. ♥ )
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