Comments | rachel_wilder: I love this stuff...

rachel_wilder

I love this stuff...

Nov 05, 2009 20:45

Okay, I have to admit that I love these things...so please, play along!

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you 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 ( Read more... )

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1407graymalkin November 6 2009, 04:25:22 UTC

I went back and forth over like 12 fics. But I decided on this because I've always been curious as to WHY

"Local music star Landry Clark is believed to have died in a plane crash in the western Rocky Mountains. Clark, a graduate of Dillon High School, was the lead guitarist of the band Hometown Hero. Mr. Clark is survived by his parents, Chad and Dorothy Clark of Dillon."

Why the Buddy Holly death? And why Landry...wait...am I allowed to ask questions?

rachel_wilder November 6 2009, 22:21:25 UTC

Why the Buddy Holly death? And why Landry...wait...am I allowed to ask questions?

Well, we had to go with Buddy Holly because I'm fascinated with him. Plus, he was from Texas and reminds me a bit of Landry.

But as for why Landry--well, I hate to admit it, but he was expendable in some ways, but had the biggest impact in another. We needed to redirect the question of who it was from the drama that was going on with Jason and Lyla and also the misdirect that it was Coach.

But maybe shelbecat has other thoughts...

fleurlb November 6 2009, 08:08:45 UTC

Tim Riggins understood the physics of sex. He'd had lots of it and he was damn good at it too. But relationships were harder than sex. Relationships had rules, and patterns. You had to know where your partner was headed and anticipate the next step. Like dancing. Tim never was any good at dancing.

It's such a perfect paragraph. I'd love to know how you came up with it. DId you think of it first? Did you always know it was going to be your opening paragraph?

rachel_wilder November 6 2009, 22:26:01 UTC

I did know it was going to be the opening paragraph--and it sat there for a while until I could see the rest of it.

It actually comes from a deep memory of a passage from Anne Morrow Lindberg's Gift from the Sea about how a marriage is like a dance with the partners taking a step forward and back, but always in one movement.

I also believe that the second most genuine relationship on the show (after Tami and Coach) is the one between Riggins and Street. That is true love. Of course this story was written specifically for someone, so it also had some of what she was looking for as a special birthday treat ;-)