[fic] so you didn't grow up to be brigitte bardot

[youcallitwinter]

I cannot with my life choices right now, okay. I decided yesterday I am going to slow the fuck down, prompt table or no prompt table, BUT INSTEAD, now I have 4000 words of Klaus/Caroline COLLEGE FIC on my hands. But it's for the wonderful florencia7 for a stunning prompt from an equally stunning poem (which i so totally did not live up to at all, um?) so I'm

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[bleodswean]

This is really delightful. I love your style!

[youcallitwinter]

Thank you, even though I don't have a style per se, I think this may be my definitive Caroline-style!

[bleodswean]

Ah. I have only read your Caroline fics, I guess. This is a highly stylized piece of writing but you're saying it's your chosen Caroline style. Ha!

[youcallitwinter]

Ohh, LOL, I think I just randomly go along with whatever I feel like in the moment, so my angst in most fandoms is overly stylized, and the first Klaus/Caroline I ever wrote was ridiculously style-based. xD

[bleodswean]

If it's working don't fix it. I prefer stylized fanfic, myself. And I liked this. Very much.

[youcallitwinter]

I think I rarely bother with plot for oneshots, so I just do styles. It's a personal failing, but I'm glad it worked for you anyway :D

[bleodswean]

I am so pleased to hear a fanfic writer of your obvious skill state this so plainly. I really feel the same way and prefer ALL of my fanfic reading to be oneshots that are based on style and/or character. Of course, the slow burn oneshot is the brass ring, both as writer and reader, but I, personally, have issues with novel-length fanfic. This, to me, is fanfic perfection. (I suppose...I would have like to find out earlier that Caroline was trying to become "ordinary" but it still works like a charm. You really got alot of internal and external thought and action in there and that's quite impressive.)

[youcallitwinter]

Haha, yeah, I think unless the fic is long, I mostly just tend to limit it to character-exploration, which is my favorite thing anyway. But then again, I don't think much about writing, which I probably should, since I just tend to write in one go and then spend hours and hours editing. And I'm glad it works for you! Crazily enough I added in the part about why she was trying to be ~ordinary...right now, because I missed it in the original draft somehow, and I do things like this way too often :| Thanks so much!