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1. well as I said, Ueda is awesome ;D (and in my eyes this was the thing that could have given me away really. But Kame needed a friend and I suck at Junno, so)
2. Was this in my sign up? It might have been in hers as well, no? Anyway she wanted canon, so. This was luck though because I may not have wanted them written for me because I was scared I'd still be hurt by it more than anything, but I had no problem writing them (see Give Me What I Don’t Know)
3. This is interesting, and in a way related to 5. I feel that I am rather long-winded and can slip into emptily beating around the bush, so in writing I purposefully push myself to avoid that because I feel the fic would lack rhythm and become boring then (thus short sentences and especially short scenes). And then I get upset when my key scenes are that much longer than the rest of the scenes in the fic. It's funny how that intentional shortness could become something people associate with my fic.
4. Also see Give Me What I Don’t Know. Secret, I actually do prefer writing from Nakamaru's POV most of the time, but my POV choices are much more related to what story I want to tell, than to my preferences ;D But yes I guess I have certain ways of Nakamaru.
5. OKAY THIS ONE! SO INTERESTING. Blunt? How? I heard frank recently too, and I'm still trying to like put a finger on it. it might be related to 3 maybe, especially the short sentences part? Just I'm trying so hard to understand blunt but maybe I just don't know the true meaning for the word. I'm almost afraid to ask about Kame's characterization. Because I'm in no way expert, and sometimes I feel like people will judge because I haven't read every one of his interview and I hate him broken and I find him strong, lovely flirty at times and maybe lovely lame too on occasions, normal even in the Kame way ... But I wonder if he is consistent, because in my mind, he is a flexible character based on plot device needed I guess.
6. For a moment, I considered being offended. LOL Like, you just write sex. But then I told myself I know that's not true. But when most of the people in the exchange want sex but are not willing to write it, someone has to do it. In this specific fic though, it wasn't even about gratification of a sexual scene at all and it being hot so wasn't the point. In a way, it was totally mild and there for a very different reason. Ah see long-winded, not the point. I got over it, yes I write a lot of sex but the favorite fics I wrote don't have any or only alludes to it lightly.
7. It wasn't the m-preg that was problematic about that sign up, and I'm putting this out here only because we have actually told my recipient where we saw problem with her sign up (that almost made us not accept it). But every time I tried to give her to someone I felt I would be punishing the person by no choice whatsoever with characters (that we made people include in sign-ups in general) and other things (the tone of especially edited sign up wasn't the nicest tbqh), so yeah I couldn't do it in the end.
8. I'm glad you think so, it's an honor in a way, though I would not take it if it was a Junno pairing. I absolutely suck at Junno. So it's not really true.
Ah thanks very much for telling me, it was interesting, and sorry for replying with an epic.
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1. yeah, Ueda was a big giveaway; from what I've seen, more people are more comfortable writing Junno
2. kind of! you expressed a hesitation re: those two. and ah, but that fic was a combined effort so I guessed someone else would've handled the Koki and/or Jin parts :3
3. And then I get upset when my key scenes are that much longer than the rest of the scenes in the fic - ahhhhhhhh this happens to me all the time orz but hey, some scenes are so important that they deserve to be fleshed out more :)
4. But yes I guess I have certain ways of Nakamaru. - that's what I meant! I read one of your maruda fics written from Ueda's pov and I could instantly tell the similarities with your nakamaru!way.
5. yes! It's definitely related to 3, I think. Your main POV is very honest and cuts to the chase, which I think is in part due to you use of shorter sentences. It gives the narrative a choppy and straightforward edge, kind of like a stream of consciousness but more compact instead of ramble-y? hfdskjk /terrible explanation. but yeah, the reader is easily able to understand the main character's thoughts. re: Kame, I really didn't mean anything in particular; I just went off what you wrote in the sign up in regards to how you like to characterise him and it matched with the Kame in Mint Green :3 (and yes, I feel you about the judge-yness; mine is opp though because I experience that when I write T-TUN)
6. fhdsjkfhsdk I don't know how you read that to even consider being offended?? It was just a connotation-free observation: there is a sexual scene; hence, I can cross out all the sign-ups that only went up to PG13 in the 'can write' category. It narrowed down the suspect list immensely ;D and if anything, consider it a compliment since a lot of writers have trouble writing sexual scenes (and personally, I have a bit of trouble digesting them as a reader as well, esp when it comes to RPF, but I really, really liked how you wrote the one in Mint Green; like you said, it wasn't about gratification or being hot (which would have detracted from the build up of the fic, imo), which I loved. it added to their relationship and fit so perfectly ;; ♥)
7. I figured.
8. ah but see, you won't write smth if you don't believe you can do it justice whereas quite a few writers (including myself) won't write smth if they don't enjoy it. so yes, consider it an honour <3
no problem! I have a question though: all the little details you included about pregnancy were so realistic, I wonder if you actually went through the trouble of researching the topic or did you glean the information from real life experiences?
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1. I don't get how people are comfortable with Junno. Junno is so hard. Uhm. pun NOT intended.
2. I wrote Jin entirely, and wanted Koki in the fic, just as it turned out, my co-writer ended up thinking of what he'd have to say, so ;D
5. Thanks for explaining ♥ This might actually also be related to how much, especially when writing for someone else, I think of motives and inner thought process of the characters. Like I have to know why exactly they are doing this, to the point my meta on fics is (if written in emails to for example my beta) as long if not much, much longer than my fics. Like idek how many people thought about why the baby's name is boy's name, but for me it wasn't just dragon-Ueda-Ryuu thing, I had another motivation there too, even if I didn't spell it out. So then maybe, the parts I do spell out come out straightforward. Like for me it is enough we don't know what one of them thinks, the person who's POV I'm using, I want for their motives to be understood (mostly). That and my mind needs structure and logic to be there. Also, lol again the dedication on reading sign ups
6. Ah it's just the fandom prejudice ways sometimes get to me. LOL at excluding everyone from the sign ups again. BUT yes, it only emphasize how often I end up writing sex because people want to read but not write it (but then it isn't always like that, so ...). Also thanks ♥ I'm glad the meaning of the scene got through.
Ahahahaha real life experience. I've never been pregnant ;D. To be fair, my brother was born when I was almost 16 (totally an inspiration for the bathtub scene, I am so shameless). My best friend is pregnant at the moment (I didn't even realize how that is a bit ironic lol), though I don't see her often enough since she lives elsewhere, and I do work for a cosmetics company, which by default means almost exclusively female collective, which in turn means tons of pregnancies and tiny kids (and frequent talks of both). But I also researched, as in I wanted to make sure I got the moths right and didn't move things too back or forward and such. I wouldn't write it based on observation only, because I wanted to make sure it's realistic. TBQH pregnancy is one of the easier things to research. When I wrote kattun as thieves stealing from love hotels a few years back I ended up reading a book and an academic paper on love hotels, rofl. This felt much more familiar.
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1. I KNOW. but for the longest time, I felt the same about Ueda too. I feel that Junno is too optimistic to be conflicted for long which makes plotting fic from his pov tricky, especially if it's more on the angstier/drama side. It's easier to write him as the pacifier.
5. Like idek how many people thought about why the baby's name is boy's name, but for me it wasn't just dragon-Ueda-Ryuu thing - !!! okay yes! it had to do with Nakamaru preferring a boy, wasn't it? and while Kame didn't have a preference himself, he cared enough about Nakamaru's wants to want one for him as well. <3 That and my mind needs structure and logic to be there - lol me too omg; it likely drove my DOA partners up the wall.
6. ooooh that's interesting; I always thought it was the other way around, that fandom preferred higher rating fics. I've always assumed that people who want to read sex but not write it is mainly because they don't know how to or feel embarrassed writing about man bits lol. but hmmmm, I think I can see it being the other way around too. It's not that including smut makes the writing quality of the fic automatically poor or anything; I guess people are just so used to sex being used as a fallback, especially in slash fandoms, that it becomes expected which then leads to it becoming tired and over exhausted. But yeah, same thing goes on with gen fic; everyone wants it but hardly anyone writes it.
fhdjksfhdskj wow at the love hotel research. It always amazes me when writers go the extra mile to make everything as realistic as possible. <3 and lol, I did believe the fic had to have been written by someone who had experienced pregnancy until Joo pointed out 'dude, they could have just researched' and I was stunned because hfdsjk who would take the time to infuse logic into something as cracky as mpreg?! like, you could have made everything up and it would have been just as plausible, but you didn't take the shortcut. I find that really great. probably why I liked the fic so much. <3<3<3
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