Great Supernatural Authors! Where Have I Been?
Good. Lord. I think I must live under a rock. Seriously. A big hunk of marble maybe. *sighs* What is this, you ask? Why the long face? Because. I just discovered
dotfic,
kellifer_fic and
parenthetical . Oh, sure, sure, I'd heard of
parenthetical, but wasn't hip to the what the fuss was about. See, I don't have much time for reading--and when I do read, I have a list of usuals I pretty much stick to because I don't have time to waste on RISK like I once did when I first entered this fandom. And now I feel like a doofus. That's right, a doofus.
But, holy crap, how did I miss these people? Man. There are so many talented, talented people in our fandom--I know even as I say this I'm probably missing many, many more--and it just blows my mind at how good some of you are. *hangs head* I had no idea.
Well, I suppose there's no point in wasting time getting depressed and comparing myself with the standard being set...its just that I had no idea how many quality writers were actually out there. When I found a great author, I assumed I'd found a rare jewel and that I fell somewhere in the middle maybe.
It comes from reading SO, SO MANY less than stellar fics early on--you know the ones I'm talking about. No punctuation, can't spell spit, no real plot to speak of, the ones that read like they were written by a 5th grader or worse. And I teach 5-8th Communication Arts, people, so I know what that looks like (you know what they say--those that can't do, teach *points at self as a good example of this horrible saying*).
So reading all that poorly written fiction and only occasionally stumbling onto a
big_pink or a
kroki_refur had lulled me into a false sense of comfort thinking maybe great writers were rare, and that just maybe I was somewhere in that nebulous region of not so bad after all. Maybe even on occasion, almost kinda good--not blazing trails good, but possibly able to at least hold my own against all but the supposedly rare exception. Which, as it turns out, is really the set standard of good, solid writing. Good lord, how self-deluded was I? Maybe I don't completely suck raw eggs through a straw, but I'm definitely not rising to the occasion, either.
*rolls eyes at self's ego and coughs hard as I bitterly eat the dust of my compatriots*
And this is SO not a veiled attempt at seeking compliments--because I probably wouldn't believe you anyway--and I prove it to thee by turning off my comments. 'Cause, yeah, I know some of you are absolutely nice enough to want to try to make me feel better. But, no, I don't want you looking at me, I want you looking at THEM. It's just the shock talking. Just. Wow.
I now present to you, in no certain order:
My Newly Revised List of People Who Not Only Write Exceptionally Well, but Tell A Friggin' Good Story:
sodakey
big_pink
gekizetsu
pdragon76
gaelicspirit
kroki_refur
janissa11
ficwriter1966
dodger_winslow
concernedlily
kiraboshi
kimonkey7
and now I must add:
dotfic
kellifer_fic
parenthetical
smilla02
innie_darling
I wonder who else I'm missing...they're popping up like mushrooms in the deep, dark woods...one minute they're not there, the next you see a whole crop of the delicious, wrinkly, little buggers.
*Note* Let me just quietly add that my envy really is meant to be a compliment even if it does make me look a little--or even a lot--you know...*looks around before whispering* ...saad (i.e. pitiful). I admit it , I have a severe case of awesome writer envy :p