i don't want to wake up; you can't let go of me yet.

[casi_casi]

A part of me doesn't want to finish Traces, because no longer knowing that it's there to be finished will see me having to write something else, and I don't think anything could quite live up to it from my perspective as its author. I've never enjoyed writing a fic more. Going back to non-AU fic will feel like a step backwards in terms of

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[tonstant_weader]

My student life has prevented a sooner reply. Sigh. And law school! Well, that would certainly be taking it up a notch. I don't think I could do that, honestly, I can barely do my own grad program FT and work PT and I had some friends in law school that I haven't heard from much until they passed the bar!

I had all-consuming careers on film and/or TV sets although that work was sporadic. For a year I worked for a sports channel here called ESPN which was 24/7 potential hours and became quite consuming. I also worked a media job where I traveled a lot and flying around on Saturdays and having a work phone with e-mails turned out to be a bit much. So I went a different path. I am such a workaholic but I have to really like it and as I age I'm becoming LESS of a workaholic because life is really too short. :P

I've not ever written a football fic. In fact, I've never written a fan fic. But I've been writing since childhood, mostly plays, actually. I was trained in college to write screenplays as well. I have written short stories, but never a longer narrative story. It would probably be quite an adjustment because screenplays are really a script for the final work which is an image. A story is contained in itself, with the reader available to interpret their own image - it's less control so I would need to be conscious of details and descriptions. Also, without actors to convey it, I'd have to rely more on omniscient character monologues most likely. But I may give it a shot, see how things turn out. I have so few creative outlets at the moment. And will soon have more time than I'm used to!

And now your graduation is but a couple days away. Ahhh it must be a wonderful wonderful feeling.

[casi_casi]

This reply is a week late, and I'm so sorry for that. But thank you so much for filling me in. It's remarkable how little we can know about our f-listers. I find you absolutely fascinating.

I would probably find it immensely difficult to write a screenplay or a play. I rely so much on inner monologues and omniscient narrators.

[tonstant_weader]

I'm working on it. I posted a first chapter experiment thus far. Let's see if I can get through the other 9. Someone said I should write a straight screenplay fic. We'll see.. I bet that would be much easier for me!

But yes, f-listers are mysterious but in each of them is a real person with a real life, family, preferences, history/experiences, pressures, opinions and whatnot so that we lose the context even while going deeply into their brains. It's why I feel the internet is relentlessly fascinating, more than pure strangers on a train or like coworker acquaintances.