Five Ways You Saw Him Die

[olaf47]

Title: Five Ways You Saw Him Die
Fandom/Pairing: House, House/Cuddy and just House/Cuddy friendship
Rating: R, but only for one very very small section. Like two sentences. Otherwise PG-13.
Disclaimer: If I owned these characters, I'd be a lot cooler than I am. No copyright infringement is intended.
Author's Note: It's my first Five Things fic and

Comments

[shigen]

I don't usually read your fanfics because I don't really watch House, Lost, or most of the other things you tend to write them about, but this one caught my eye.

I don't think I've seen this style of writing before--the second person narrative, the lack of quotations to indicate speech. Generally, I liked this style. It took me a few minutes to adjust to it--mostly in the spots where there were combinations of voiced and interpersonal conversations happening at the same time--but it was a very interesting technique.

I used to be naive enough that I equated good writing to big words and long, complex storylines, but brief works like these remind me that I'm wrong. I liked it a lot. The tone was very personal, due in part to the narrative style and partly due to the subject matter. (It's hard to be impersonal when writing about a relationship!) Even outside of those two R-rated sentences near the beginning, the whole piece seemed very private, even sensual.

Good work! :)

[shigen]

...mostly in the spots where there were combinations of voiced and interpersonal conversations happening at the same time...
*cough* Make that intrapersonal. Maybe I should take time to check my own spelling.

[olaf47]

<3

thank you, dahling!

i've read far too much fanfiction, and there's a "five things" category I wanted to try out. and they also use second person a fair amount. apparently there's a stereotype for second person to be super-sucky, but i didn't notice. i tend to avoid super-sucky fics, and everything i read in second person was amazing. so i thought i'd try it too.

as for no quotation marks.......i think it looks cool. it lends a different sort of dimension. i don't know.

thanks for replying ross knoll!

(by the way, this is also what's going on in my life [besides?] television. i write. constantly. i have about seven folded in half sheets of paper in my bio notebook that are covered on both sides with writings. sometimes it's fanfic sometimes it's not. i just rather enjoy it.)

[vegjackie]

brilliant. i loved it :D

[olaf47]

Apparently I didn't use to respond to all my reviews. Now, I hate authors who do that. So even though it's been a year and a half, I wanted to say thank you for reviewing, and I'm really glad you liked it.

[cherryfeather]

Lovely. Just brilliant. (And I'm House/Wilson, so that does mean a lot coming from me.) I loved your narrative style, second person and no quotes. It was excellently refreshing.

[lowbatterie]

To cherryfeather: I can't decide if it's sad that I recognize your posts by your icons before I see your name.

To the author of this post:

Beautiful. I'm not really that good at the whole 'five things' thing, but this just rocked it. I particularly liked the first one, 1) because it is in their past, which I feel is territory far too unfrequented by the great Huddy authors, 2) because of course that's how they meet, and 3) "It takes him a couple laps to pass you, but when he does, he goes flying by and you expect he had been boosting your ego a little, only to shatter it." is the truest of trufax.

:D

[olaf47]

I'm so glad you liked it! Sorry for taking forever to reply. But I hate writers who don't, so I figure, even a year and a half late, you deserve a response.

[olaf47]

I'm so sorry I never got back to you.

I really appreciate the review (especially from a House/Wilson fan!), and am so glad that you liked it!

[rand0m0ne]

I also really enjoyed this one! Thanks for sharing!! :D

[olaf47]

Thanks for reviewing! Sorry it took me *forever* to respond.

[olaf47]

I'm glad you liked it. I appreciate the review, sorry it took me forever to say thanks.