Comments | gabrielleabelle: Notes on Into Morning

gabrielleabelle

Notes on Into Morning

Dec 26, 2009 23:17

Okay, let me be all self-indulgent and navel-gaze a bit on my most recent fic, Into Morning. It's very metaphor-y...and I like metaphors...so...

Really, it's my most pretentious fic since Lotophagi. Though I give myself props for not using an obscure reference to Greek mythology in the title this time.

( Needless to say...this be spoilery )

btvs, fic-writing, spuffy

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ladyofthelog December 27 2009, 06:29:53 UTC

No, I like your meta!

And I adore this fic. Such a sweet conclusion, and a lovely conceit!

gabrielleabelle December 27 2009, 16:37:03 UTC

Heh. I just feel a bit full of myself whenever I yap on about my own fic. Glad you enjoyed, though. :)

angearia December 27 2009, 06:55:46 UTC

I'm just happy to see I'm not the only one who does this! Yay for self-pretensions in your journal!

gabrielleabelle December 27 2009, 16:37:36 UTC

rofl! Definitely not. I've done it for a couple other fics, too. :)

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gabrielleabelle December 27 2009, 16:38:01 UTC

riccadonna December 27 2009, 08:54:08 UTC

I so much liked the story, I was glad to have this little reflection on it to read soon after, it felt like having a conversation with you about it, or like when you come out of the movie theater and keep talking about the film for a while. It's been really good.

gabrielleabelle December 27 2009, 16:38:29 UTC

Yay! Glad you enjoyed. :)

moscow_watcher December 27 2009, 15:16:57 UTC

You know, I had to look up for "pretentious" in my English-Russian dictionary to be sure that I understand the word correctly. Since when a well-plotted multi-layered fic is qualified as "pretentious"? :)

I loved that relationships in William-verse isn't an exact replica of canonical Buffyverse relationships. It conveys the story a truly dreamlike quality. I think you parallel to Mulholland Drive is spot-on.

Still, I don't understand why you think that the set-up of this story isn't similar to Normal Again. I believe it's a pretty common set-up in sci-fi and fantasy fiction: when a character is unconscious (asleep, dead, enchanted) in one dimension, he lives a different version of his life in another dimension.

gabrielleabelle December 27 2009, 16:40:48 UTC

Oh, I can see the similarities to Normal Again now that people have pointed it out. With how I approached it, focusing on Will's story and all, it makes sense. It just wasn't intentional, which some people seem to think it was.

Since when a well-plotted multi-layered fic is qualified as "pretentious"? :)

:) Thanks.