Positively Angelic [Holmes/Watson, PG]

[igrab]

Title: Positively Angelic
Author: igrab
Pairing: Holmes/Watson
Written For: phantom_roxs, who requested H/W, angsty h/c-ish sortof
Word Count: 938
Rating: PG
Notes: feel better, love ♥

Comments

[xtinethepirate]

OMG. YOU ARE A FICCING MACHINE TODAY writing through class, missy? *snerk*.

I love how you make it kinda fluffy and romantic, but still very them. The romantic is tinged with snark and cynicism, and the fluff undoubtedly will be used to sop up chemical spills, hee.

Also, this:

"Out."

Holmes got out.

"In."

Holmes went in. The walk up the stairs was difficult at best, with Watson shoving him from behind and blood trickling down his leg and "Really old boy, I think I can manage," he muttered, but the doctor's hand only tightened and what had he done to instill such rage? It was positively unhealthy.

Might I say, without sounding too horribly geektastic, that I love the way you alter your syntax to contrast pithy, simple sentences and compound/complex ones? Because I do.

[igrab]

well, i skipped a couple this morning, but i had this big 3-hour block of time before arabic and i write fast ;3

ahsdjg. hearing you say that makes me incredibly happy, i take great care when i time my sentences and it's just, it's very nice to hear that it's specifically appreciated! i talk aloud to myself when i write, actually.

[xtinethepirate]

Hee, glad to hear I'm not the only one who talks to herself while writing! ;)

But yes, it does make SUCH a difference. I cannot read a story that does not have fluid prose, no matter how good the plot of it may be. I know it's a thing to be like "well, a good story can make up for poor prose more than good prose can make up for a poor story" but no. If I can't read it, it's not worth reading. ///diatribe.

FORTUNATELY, you have both in abundance, heee. SO YOUR EFFORT IS NOTICED AND APPRECIATED.

[igrab]

there are very few things that i can read if the writing is bad. there's a lot of rdjude that i read anyway, for example, because it's... passable, even if it's not... quite right. there's really only, like, three rdjude fics that i have 100% loved. but i love them. and like. my fandom. so. i read. but i either won't comment or will say something ~whatever if i only felt ~whatever about it, you know? i don't like to concrit unless i can tell that the person is a serious writer (or a friend, usually both) who would appreciate the concrit. and, usually it's so... subtle, like, it's hard for me to explain what i don't like in something because writing comes easily to me, so i don't even know how to phrase why i don't like something, it's just 'it's not good enough. be better.'

but for most things? if the writing throws me off, i close the window. the end. i have a much, much higher appreciation for writing than story. in fact, i would rather read something well-written of a pairing i dislike than something mediocre from one of my otps.

[xtinethepirate]

Yes this, just... everything. I've passed the point where I was reading EVERYTHING in the fandom just because it was new and shiny and I could not get enough; now I tend to give it one paragraph. Which is short, and some things become more fluid as they go along, but... there's just SO, SO MUCH and I have so little time that I need to set a boundary somewhere, you know?

But you're right, I don't feel comfortable with concrit until I know the person. Unless there's a really glaring typo / error, at which point I make my nice comment first, then point it out in a teeny font at the end, like a "oh, by the way" kinda afterthought.

I've gotten into new fandoms purely because I read a brilliant fic in a fandom I followed, and then followed the author into a new one. I think that brilliant writing can transcend fandom knowledge to some extent, so long as something isn't acting off a specific moment / aspect in/of canon; if it's the characters, they'll come through.