For all you ficcers out there...

[thehouseofjade]

Here's an article from Reason Magazine on  the Fan Fiction Phenomena for all you ficcers out there.

And even though I don't do it much anymore.  I will occasionally write/continue parts of my old Roswell fics for my own fun and amusement.  Here's a section of Serenity that I wrote the other day as a gift to a friend.

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[queenie__b]

Not to look a gift horse in the mouth - especially as the gift was not for me specifically (and why is that, btw?) - but you stopped there? YOU STOPPED THERE?!?! Geez...

Love,
Q

[thehouseofjade]

Because, my dearest Q, you could never pick just one story and I have to be in the mood to play with the characters. Serenity is the one I can slip back into the easiest, and I may very well have plagarized myself for the above part (it's been along time since I've read over that).

And as to why I stopped there, well blame all the cliff-hanger training that Tammi and Courtney gave me over the years. Their evilness is pervasive.

[freneticfloetry]

COURTNEY?! Tammi is the CliffieQueen, supreme wielder of the Cliffhanger of Doom! How did I get dragged into this?!

Serenity, how I have missed you...

(Oh yeah, btw, new LJ. Heh.)

[thehouseofjade]

I seem to remember this story that had a chapter that ended with a gunshot or some bleeding from the stomach...

And then a really, really long delay between that chapter and the next.

Sometimes it is not the amount of cliffies that make you a cliffie queen but the severity of the cliffies you do provide.

Nice new LJ, by the way.

[freneticfloetry]

...

When you put it that way, it sounds so wholly incriminating.

Okay, first, that was one instance. I am, by nature and at heart, firmly anti-cliffhanger. They make people all murderous and enraged. And it's not as if I intended to go that long without updating. There were circumstances, and the circumstances were extenuating.

Yes, we'll go with that.

[thehouseofjade]

Excuses. Excuses.

If life and extenuating circumstances were legal excuses there would a lot less ficcers out there with readers out for their blood. So I'm really not sure if that's a viable excuse.

You could, of course, make the trauma up to me by telling me what you know about word press, blogger and all sorts of the web-building in between.

Mwahahahaha.