Comments | flambeau: it ends with revelations

flambeau

it ends with revelations

Jul 21, 2005 16:57

Finally played Myst: Revelation all the way through to the end. I abandoned it several months ago just before the final puzzles, and it wasn't until today that I felt I had the time to sit down and relax and concentrate on playing ( Read more... )

games, writing, hp, unwritten

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greenmtnboy18 July 21 2005, 11:08:54 UTC

Yes. I want to read the stories I want to write. I write the stories I want to read. It's the only way to get them sometimes. Makes me crazy. Esp since i'm so danged slow.

flambeau July 21 2005, 11:14:34 UTC

*dies laughing at your icon*

I'm not sure I can even write my dream story the right way - so much work! I keep hoping it will turn out someone else already has. :)

greenmtnboy18 July 21 2005, 18:45:48 UTC

Isn't it shiny? :-D

I write snippets of my dream story in all different sorts of forms. Occassionally I also find "the story I wish I'd written", which really is written *exactly* the way I would have wanted to write it, *if* I'd thought of it. But mostly I read something and go "oh wow, that is *so* close..."

And then I set out to do what I wanted to see. But it's never exactly what I'm looking to read, because... well, it's out of my head, and I want to read something that is *new* and surprising and different to me. I want to read a story that has all the elements and characterizations I'm looking for, and I want it to *sing* to me.

Sigh.

flambeau July 22 2005, 12:00:37 UTC

Yes, exactly - it would be the best story I could think of, with the added advantage that it wouldn't be me who had thought of it. I want to be surprised in all the right ways...

And that icon, too, is hilarious. As I'm sure you know. :)

flamebyrd July 22 2005, 03:15:03 UTC

I know! China, by Tor- wait.

Your dream story does sound very cool, though. If you find it, you must let the world know.

flambeau July 22 2005, 12:01:26 UTC

Hee! Thanks. :) And yes, if I find it I'll jump up and down and go Eeeeee!

And even if I don't find it, maybe I should think about updating my recs page, hmmm.

bethbethbeth July 22 2005, 23:07:45 UTC

I have totally different ideas about what I want to read and what I want to write, especially now that I'm writing so many short, humor-fics in HP.

My personal reading preference is for long, serious stories in which an isolated character is bought in to someone else's circle (or is given a "family," and 200 pages is just right for me to read....

flambeau July 23 2005, 01:28:52 UTC

Fraser!

Snape!

...yes?

bethbethbeth July 23 2005, 04:40:38 UTC

Indeed! There was a really nice Tales of the City/Hardcore Logo crossover that AuKestrel and Kellie Matthews wrote which did the same thing with Billy Tallent. It's the sort of "Beauty and the Beast" motif (the older versions, not the Disney one really) where someone's reviled for one reason or another, yet finds a person or people who are able to see his/her inner self.

I suppose this is why I used to like vampire romances once upon a time. :)

daegaer July 23 2005, 02:05:09 UTC

I write the stories I want to read. Why is no one else writing gay Victorian soldiers and assassins on British-held Mars, whyyyyyyy?

Your dream story sounds rather like my dream story, BTW. Is yours set on Victorian Mars or in Victorian-era Afghanistan, by any chance? :-) Because if it is, or might be, let me pimp some versions of my dream story to you! ("Karakorum" is the first, "OHMMS" the first Martian story, and last year's NaNoWriMo another Martian story, a sort of AU - or possibly just a side-view, to the first).

stakebait July 25 2005, 10:15:03 UTC

I read a much narrower set than I write. I take a lot of writing challenges, to keep things interesting. Reading, except for the trusted few, tends to not stray far from my comfort zone. At least these days, at least in fanfic.