Writing Meme!

[pprfaith]

Snagged from avamclean.

Pick any passage of 500 words or less from any fanfic I’ve written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what’s going on in the character’s heads, why I chose certain words, what

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mostly cause I love, love this story

[avamclean]

“Charles,” he explains. “I don’t think he minds me flirting with you

Re: mostly cause I love, love this story

[pprfaith]

Okay, so, originally this story was all angsty, with Buffy being thrown into the past somehow unlocking the vision part of her slayerness. Basically, she saw all doom and gloom and the time and she did her best to hold te boys together. That was her motivation for sleeping with two men

[tigriswolf]

They flicker and change. They move. There’s something big and lanky curling under Jensen’s feet, something compact and sleek twining around Roque and Pooch’s legs, sitting at Clay’s haunches.

A cat, the smooth movements, the way Jensen rolled to his feet. A big cat. And the others, canines. Pooch is different from the other, something smaller. Coyote? Hyena? Clay and Roque, tall and solid. Wolves. She looks at Cougar, his shadow in front of him, wings and a beak, straining against the human shell, towards her. To claw out her eyes, she thinks, with that remoteness, that laser sharp focus.

Animals in human skin. A unit made of monsters. Ridiculous.

Only stories.

She feels panic well in her, feels fear, feels the blind, animal terror of small prey caught between big predators. She understands now, that she underestimated these men. Only they’re not men at all, are they?

Changer. Walker. Shifter.

And all the stories are true.Because this is the image that's stayed with me, the first thing of yours I remember reading (even though

[pprfaith]

Huh, what do you mean you didn't find me? You know my name over there, don't you?

The scene. In the movie, shadows play an important role in that scene, if you look. The walk over mostly even ground and it's so bright. And then they stand around, all looking in the same direction, which is a bad move on such high ground. And Jensen is, as usual, totally underused.

So I fixed that. I used the shadows as this small detail, that little hint that something's wrong that grew into sheer panic for Aisha. And I used Jensen bcause he needs to be used and I fixed them being dumb about positioning.

Mostly, though, I just have a really vivid imagination and the squirming, moving shadows were something I could see perfectly in my head. so I put them on paper.

[tigriswolf]

I know I read fics of yours on ff.net (Supernatural, I'm pretty sure), but the first actual fic I assiociate with you is this one.

What kind of cat is Jensen? I know you have Rogue call him a panther at some point - is he a jaguar, leopard, mountain lion, or something bigger?

[pprfaith]

I think I decided on leopard, in the end. Reasonably fast, loner, pretty. I liked it.

... Maybe I'll get around to writing the pack at a full moon one day.