Meme results: DVD commentary bits.

[dsudis]

Ahahahaha okay so this meme is a lot harder than I thought it would be when I posted it! So I apologize if my responses are totally unsatisfying. Feel free to ask follow up questions if I am that person who just rambles uninformatively about something no one cares about in DVD commentaries.

Oh God I am the person who just rambles about boring

Comments

[end_of_thyme]

Thank you so much!!! I really loved your explanation. :-)

Have you read Maurice by E M Forster? Whenever I read any period!fic which has class elements, I always recall that novel and the dynamics.

[dsudis]

I have not read it! But someone described it to me at some point in the beta process, so I understand the comparison. :)

[rubynye]

O glorious commentary! (I nearly asked about "To Course Across More Kindly Waters Now" -- you nearly made me watch SPN, until I realized that Castiel on the show couldn't possibly live up to your shining angel. That 'Be not afraid' had me singing for days and still echoes in my heart.) You do much better than you give yourself credit for.

I knew, because I write on occasion, that the end of "Crossing The Line" was a process of winding it up, so I'm delighted you wrote about that. :) And the others, too.

[dsudis]

Yay! And, yeah--I'm in the odd position of having finally given up on SPN myself, because my favorite angel is not worth the overwhelming sense that the show is actively hostile to women, including fans. But I do still love some of the stories the show gave me, however inadvertently, and I'm glad that one meant so much to you (and, honestly, it's hard to overstate the role Iulia plays in my writing--she's the other half of my brain and I literally do not know what I would do without her).

And, yes! At some point in the last few years of writing I've learned to mostly recognize the exit line when it offers itself, that definitive downbeat of story-momentum that says stop here. Sometimes it pulls me up short and sometimes I just have to keep dancing until I trip over it. :)

[bbm_got_me_good]

you make it sound so easy with Get Loved, and yet the story was so complex. it would be interesting to hear one day how the bare bones scenario you described above transformed into the final version :) (I'm a wannabee writer - a very poor one - and I love reading about real writers' thought processes)

[dsudis]

Well, I think it helped that, on the one hand, I'd kind of internalized the rules of time travel within the Who-verse, and on the other hand, I was so totally immersed in Ianto's POV--so the story seemed to unfold in a very linear way, because I followed the timeline of his perception.

Still, it did take five months to write, so I'm probably comfortably forgetting some things. :)

As I recall, I started plotting the story even before I'd finished watching season two of Torchwood, and then was writing it as I was watching season four of Doctor Who, so several of the external plot events--Tosh's death and John Hart's presence, the Sontarans--were put in place for me by the show, and I just built the story around them.

The one thing that I didn't plot on that first day was the last time loop, Indy's trip to visit Ianto in Cardiff, and the subsequent retconning and so on. I had already written the first couple of chapters and was describing the arc of the story to darthfox, and when I got to the part where Ianto has to leave Indy and Jack

[elainasaunt]

Thanks so much! I really appreciate these glimpses, in the post and in the comments, of the creative process on Get Loved, which I love more than chocolate. It was hard to make myself NOT READ IT AGAIN (for the, what, fourth? fifth? time) while searching for just the right timey-wimey excerpt.

[dsudis]

Thank you back! I'm glad you found the commentary interesting! :)

[sumbitch]

then I walked around work with a huge, giddy smile on my face, because everyone was going to live, and I knew I had to write the story.

sounds like the giddy smile I had on my face at work because I was reading it on my Kindle, under the desk when I finished it.

My personal fanon now includes "lalala Ianto's not dead, he's happily living in the future with Jack and their baybee mmmkay".

Thanks for taking me along on the roller coaster, it was a lovely ride!

[dsudis]

Thank you back, I'm glad you enjoyed it! It's still one of the most purely delightful things I think I've written in terms of the big happy payoff. :)