So I've been pondering co-writing and all the various shades of co-writing recently.

I say I don't co-write often, but that's not exactly true.  I don't co-write often in the sense of "I write some and the other person writes some."  It's more complicated than that, and I don't always give credit to the extent it's due, I don't think.  This post ( Read more... )

I still need to go around the flist and respond to this meme--I promise I will this evening!  But since
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1. Comment to this post with the name of a character that I have written in fic. Or geeked out about.

2. I will comment telling you the following:
a. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her.
b. One of his/her best traits.
c. One of his/her worst traits.
d. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character.
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I don't f-lock stories.  Period.  If LJ reaches a point where I must or face deletion, I'll simply put up a note that I've gone elsewhere.

I refuse to get paranoid about my stories, even if there's a reason to be.  I refuse to get defensive and scared.  Once you start fretting about these things, you're well on the road to self-censorship.  If they ( Read more... )

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These two songs were songs that got me through Syncopation a lot--they're both songs of support for friends having hard times, and I imagined Clark singing them to Bruce...but there seem to be a bunch of people on the flist that could use a pick-me-up right now, so maybe they're more generic as well.

Chantal Kreviazuk, "All I Can Do"
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The second-person POV is a difficult one to make work.  It invites comparisons and empathy where perhaps there are--or should be--none.  It aims to create complicity.  Keep that in mind.

Probably most of you can skip this, because I assume--thank God--that most of you are not "you."  But if you see yourself in "you" at all, this is an apology.

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