Well, it's that time again!

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Hey cool cats. I know I haven't been around much lately (personal post hopefully to come soon) but just popping in to say that it's my IWRY day. The iwry-marathon is a month long Buffy/Angel ficathon that's one of my favorite parts of the year. It's really making November fly by for me. I realized this morning that this is my fifth year participating (I started

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Okay, here we go. The first thing that impressed me about this story was the character voice. You're getting so good at it I'm thrilled and jealous. Buffy's dialogue in this one is virtually indistinguishable from her canon dialogue: witty and self-aware and genuine. I just skimmed for a favorite line and there were too many choices. Angel and Giles and Cordelia were great, too, and none of them are easy to write

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I've just been sitting and giggling over this amazingness over the past few days, but then I remembered that you might actually want me to acknowledge it, so to quote you, "Okay, here we go."

When I got to "Buffy's dialogue in this one is virtually indistinguishable from her canon dialogue" I kept looking away and waving my hands and going stop! You stop that, K! You know I always have trouble with dialog and I spent a lot of stressful time with clenched fists trying to whip everyone into shape, so this was gratifying to hear

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I can only partially take credit for the writing style thing. Out of nowhere, I just started noticing construction as I was reading.

You silly goose, you just described the way writers learn to polish their writing. Of course you can take full credit for that. And I really do love thinking and talking about the process. If only we all had the time, I would love to devote myself in a big way to a fandom writers' workshop. You could share your new secrets about Buffyverse dialogue.

Well, now that you've illuminated the original idea for multiple AUs, that sounds pretty awesome too and I wouldn't complain to see it either way. Let's say, whatever gets you motivated to produce more stories I can read has my vote. ;)

But Buffy and Cordelia's friendship would be amazing to see in this 'verse once both of them were true heroes. Just sayin'.

Bet you love Ron/Hermione! Hmmm, who else was friends first...

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Of course you can take full credit for that.
Lol, part of me knows that I was improving my writing, but it was such a random out of body experience, that I feel like I didn't think about it enough to really purposefully have been making changes.

You could share your new secrets about Buffyverse dialogue.
Sorry, wrong number. I'll find a real expert and then you can start hosting fanfic writers' workshops. I would definitely be there, if only to squee over my favorite writers and sweat over which breakaway sessions to attend ("Snark and Spark sounds amazing, but so does "Beyond Mary Sue: Building Realistic OCs!")

But Buffy and Cordelia's friendship would be amazing to see in this 'verse once both of them were true heroes. Just sayin'.If I ever write it, it would probably be inspired by Homecoming. Because even as big damn heroes, there would be some competitiveness. I mean, I write in slow motion, so if it happens, it could be years if ever, but I'm just sayin

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Okay, then you can host a breakaway session on having a writing-instructive out of body experience.

I'm confused by people who don't believe Ron/Hermione, too. Harry Potter shipping is weird. The canon ships are so very confirmed that it seems like there shouldn't be any argument, but actually the argument is everywhere. Don't know the other ones you mentioned, except Monica/Chandler and I'm pretty eh on everything from Friends....though really I do remember liking their relationship more than others.