wherein Liz, as always, blathers about stories she should have had finished ages ago

[edenfalling]

I have my computer back. *dances* All my files are okay, and I now have an external hard drive on which to back them up periodically, so if anything goes completely kerflooey again, I should at least be able to work on my stories on other computers

Comments

[annearchy]

You're writing for a movie that people who are currently on LJ have both seen and loved. I was a bit surprised (after Googling) to find out that, apparently, no one in the world has posted Sling Blade fic prior to mine. Anywhere. At least not in English.

[edenfalling]

Yeah, there is that benefit to writing Inception fic... though I am not, you will note, writing Arthur/Eames, which is by far the dominant expression of the fandom. (Frankly, I prefer Ariadne/Arthur/Eames, Ariadne/Arthur, or strictly gen team!fic, but that's another post for another day.)

I wanted to write Mysterious Skin fic, mostly just to be contrary -- it was less directly related to my prompt quote, and is a much less "known" canon source -- but alas, that failed to work out.

What is Sling Blade about? I am interested in reading your story, but I have NO knowledge of the movie beyond that, I think, Billy Bob Thornton may have been in it?

[annearchy]

Sling Blade is the story of Karl, a mentally challenged man who has spent 25 years in the criminal ward of a state mental hospital in Arkansas for killing his mother and her lover -- when he was about 12 years old. Eventually he is deemed "cured" and released. He goes back to his home town, gets a job fixing small machines, meets some people... and things progress from there. You can find plenty of reviews via Google.

[edenfalling]

Interesting. I will read up about the movie and then look at your story once I have a frame of reference for it. :-)