Writerly M-Type Thing
We got some of the snow from the storm to the south of us, just enough that schools were two hours delayed this morning. This meant that I missed teaching first and second periods, which were fully planned. Tomorrow is a half-day, so I only have to teach first and second periods. Which means that this is one of those rare moments in my life when I
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Ha! I'm glad you thought it articulate. It often felt like a stew of metaphors to me. :^P
But I do love thinking about these things. I have my little pet theories. Usually only Bobby--bless him--gets to hear about them. Like the Language Layercake--that's a favorite. The Characters in a Room technique did get mentioned here!
If I were to ever be successful in writing beyond fandom, I could be one of those annoying writers who writes a how-to-write book.
I could have said that (obviously I could not, because I did not)!
On that post, we certainly talked about making deliberate choices in our stories ... so you kinda did, if only in the comments. :) I don't remember if it was in the original post, so I'll trust you know better than me!
Of course, your stories are among my favorites because they are deep and layered, and you don't say and do things because they sound kewl.
(I wrote based on kewlness a lot when I was younger. Like I wanted to use a particular word or write a particular scene, so I put it in whether it fit or not.)
not really sorry!
I'm not sorry! I wouldn't undo it. There was a lot of heart put into that story. It means a lot to me personally, too, as it was a fragile point in my life and sort of pulled me out of the creative abyss.
But I do have a little *groan* moment when someone tells me they're reading it because there are some bits in it that I've definitely outgrown! I tell myself this is a good thing, and if I still felt like my best story was something 10 years old, then I haven't done much with my writing life since then.
And part of that is probably because it has become so much more normal to write Silm characters as I wrote them in AMC. So it's easy to forget my rationale behind some of the decisions I made in presenting that story at the time, in the context in which it was written.
By the Light of the Roses has been since I first read it one of my very favorite among your stories! I have to agree with you on it.
Thank you! I didn't know that. :)
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I've said it before! Lot's of times--both that it is one of my favorites and my all-time favorite (I'm hedging at little on number one now, only because you have written some incredible stories since then). You just don't remember and I recommend it all the time.
The thing about it is, whereas AMC was a fabulous escape for me into a world I did not even know I wanted people with my favorite Silm characters. Light of the Roses was initially a painful and disturbing story, but really has an underlying hopefulness to it, despite foreshadowing of things to come. There is a sense of it's not over 'til it's over. Now I am blathering. Erestor is a great character also and influenced the way I write my very different one. Your Telvo is such a fantastic character--so vulnerable and courageous at the same time. It has a cast of fantastic characters--the wives and Curufin. Even Erestor's parents and their marriage(!), seen only in his internal monologues.
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"There is so much that I could say, but just want, for now, to give this my highest recommendation."
So I'm an eejit! :D
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I know it is on my most recent "classic Silm fic" rec list and I only list four or five of yours there at most. Trying to not make a list of everything by only my three or four favorite authors!
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