Comments | zooey_glass04: Random fic meta

zooey_glass04

Random fic meta

Feb 09, 2009 22:34

I have been having thinky thoughts about my fic Burn Your Life Down, which I'm posting mostly for my own benefit, since I can't imagine anyone else will want to read them *g* Rambling about BYLD, characterisation, and issues of race.

( Teal deer: somewhat incoherent since I'm thinking this out )

burn your life down, meta, rambling, fanfiction

Comments 2

parenthetical February 10 2009, 21:39:30 UTC

Yay for your thinky thoughts! It's really interesting to hear what you've been thinking about it.

I still think BYLD is one of the strongest fics you've written. Not just because of the strength of the plot, though I do think that's particularly awesome, but because of a lot of the other things you talk about here too. I think your characterisation is amazing - you do a wonderful job of capturing the many ways in which Dean and Sam are still the same characters, while at the same time capturing all the subtle ways in which they are different people. And I think you do a really good job in building up Dana as a character too. Even the minor characters like Jake and Ava, it's really interesting to see the differences between canon and your AU.

So yes, mostly I love how you bring together a kick-ass plot with amazing characterisation and your usual standard of brilliant writing, plus a really good structure. I'm still awed by how good a job you did. <3333333333333333333

zooey_glass04 February 10 2009, 22:04:32 UTC

Heeeeee, you are lovely <33333333333333

It's interesting, though, because I definitely wouldn't characterise it as one of my strongest fics. I can look back over it and see a lot of things that I did successfully, and in fact in terms of what I planned beforehand making it onto the page, it definitely is my strongest fic. But I can't really look at it and enjoy it, in a way that I can with some of my other fics - 'Taking Back Its Leaves', for example. I can't really explain what I mean, but it's not a fic I can imagine recommending to anyone else. Like... it does exactly what I intended it to do, and I am pleased with the way it all fits together, but I just can't imagine why anyone would want to read it, even though I think it's quite good. Maybe it's just that it's not the kind of fic I like to read myself, because the emotional arc is much less central. Or maybe it's out of my more general emotional state when I was wtiting it and now. Obviously the lack of attention it's receieved affects my perceptions to some degree, but I ( ... )