awake now, and with a Due South rec
I did go to sleep ridiculously early, but instead of sleeping straight through to morning I'm now wide awake at 2am. I've already done two loads of laundry and read a story that just ripped me open, in the really good way.
cherryice writes the way I wish I could write. Like Some Strange Shadow is spare and beautiful with amazing details. F/K, but mostly it's about Kowalski and what's going on in his head. I don't even have words for what this story did to me.
And it seems obnoxiously presumptious of me, especially after reading that story, but I keep getting this idea to write a sort of fanfic writing primer. So, if you were going to writer a primer on writing fanfic, what would you include? What really pulls you out of a story and makes it not work? Bad dialogue? Wonky formatting? What makes certain stories just sing? For me it's often specific details, little twists in dialogue and description that surprise me but work so well. What else? I value writing quality over a flashy plot, and for me everything hinges on characterization. What do you look for? How do you write? I get a flash of dialogue or a scene in my head and go from there. I rarely have a plot in mind, and even when I do it always changes once it's on the page. Do you work from an outline? Make notes on index cards? Use a spreadsheet? Just go where the words take you? I could probably read about how other writers write forever. I'm intrigued by how different we can be.
I'm going to take a shower now and wash this fever sweat off me, then enjoy my fluffy just-out-of-the-dryer towels and sheets. It's the simple things that mean so much to me.
cherryice writes the way I wish I could write. Like Some Strange Shadow is spare and beautiful with amazing details. F/K, but mostly it's about Kowalski and what's going on in his head. I don't even have words for what this story did to me.
And it seems obnoxiously presumptious of me, especially after reading that story, but I keep getting this idea to write a sort of fanfic writing primer. So, if you were going to writer a primer on writing fanfic, what would you include? What really pulls you out of a story and makes it not work? Bad dialogue? Wonky formatting? What makes certain stories just sing? For me it's often specific details, little twists in dialogue and description that surprise me but work so well. What else? I value writing quality over a flashy plot, and for me everything hinges on characterization. What do you look for? How do you write? I get a flash of dialogue or a scene in my head and go from there. I rarely have a plot in mind, and even when I do it always changes once it's on the page. Do you work from an outline? Make notes on index cards? Use a spreadsheet? Just go where the words take you? I could probably read about how other writers write forever. I'm intrigued by how different we can be.
I'm going to take a shower now and wash this fever sweat off me, then enjoy my fluffy just-out-of-the-dryer towels and sheets. It's the simple things that mean so much to me.