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Does anyone know if the wave theory of slash is written up and posted on the net anywhere? I'm trying to write something halfway thinky and I want to reference it and all I have to go on is my own hazy memory of the_shoshanna telling me about it seven years ago. Google is less than helpful, although I now know a lot more about various kinds of wave theory than I did.
This post by fabu about performing friendship on lj stuck in my head. The way we reference each other, the way we mention names and link posts. And if I don't write here about spending an evening watching HL with mjlee at her place, an afternoon watching SGA with northernveil at my place, a night watching Numb3rs with merryish in chat, did it still happen? Am I still fannish? If a fan squees in an offline forest, does she make a sound?
katallison makes a meme: for one/some/any or all of your stories, let us know what that thing was, what you really wanted to do and couldn't quite achieve.
This is kind of a tricky meme, because I'm more likely to think vaguely that something didn't come out the way I'd hoped than to have some very clear template I'd been working towards and failed to achieve. But a couple of things come to mind.
Why do birds sing so gay: I wanted to write a story that was like a movie, all fast cuts and everything seen from the outside, without any POV markers. Okay, yes, you can certainly have POV markers in movies, but. Anyway, I kind of want to go back and rewrite the 3.5 segment, because it really wouldn't take that much, I just wasn't thinking clearly.
Potter's field: the idea got to me, the title got to me, and I feel that this story doesn't have nearly enough words in it, and that it needs to be either more subtle and roundabout or more outright operatic, one or the other. It's more like an incomplete sketch of the story in my head.
Backstory: Some of the details are wrong. There are few enough words in this story that they should all be significant, and instead, some of them feel like filler. Not an entirely bad idea, but the execution is iffy. In my head, every word packs a punch. In reality, not so much.
Lost in space: The UST in my head? So not there in the words, and then there's suddenly kissing! Sigh.
There should be a reverse of this meme, too. Which stories do you feel actually came out the way you'd planned, mostly, and you're actually pretty darn pleased with them and rank them among your better achievements? Cause I want to know! (Leave me a link!)
This post by fabu about performing friendship on lj stuck in my head. The way we reference each other, the way we mention names and link posts. And if I don't write here about spending an evening watching HL with mjlee at her place, an afternoon watching SGA with northernveil at my place, a night watching Numb3rs with merryish in chat, did it still happen? Am I still fannish? If a fan squees in an offline forest, does she make a sound?
katallison makes a meme: for one/some/any or all of your stories, let us know what that thing was, what you really wanted to do and couldn't quite achieve.
This is kind of a tricky meme, because I'm more likely to think vaguely that something didn't come out the way I'd hoped than to have some very clear template I'd been working towards and failed to achieve. But a couple of things come to mind.
Why do birds sing so gay: I wanted to write a story that was like a movie, all fast cuts and everything seen from the outside, without any POV markers. Okay, yes, you can certainly have POV markers in movies, but. Anyway, I kind of want to go back and rewrite the 3.5 segment, because it really wouldn't take that much, I just wasn't thinking clearly.
Potter's field: the idea got to me, the title got to me, and I feel that this story doesn't have nearly enough words in it, and that it needs to be either more subtle and roundabout or more outright operatic, one or the other. It's more like an incomplete sketch of the story in my head.
Backstory: Some of the details are wrong. There are few enough words in this story that they should all be significant, and instead, some of them feel like filler. Not an entirely bad idea, but the execution is iffy. In my head, every word packs a punch. In reality, not so much.
Lost in space: The UST in my head? So not there in the words, and then there's suddenly kissing! Sigh.
There should be a reverse of this meme, too. Which stories do you feel actually came out the way you'd planned, mostly, and you're actually pretty darn pleased with them and rank them among your better achievements? Cause I want to know! (Leave me a link!)