See, now. This is why I like this meme so much... because I get this inside view on what goes into a piece of writing... and especially when it's one of my most favorite pieces of writing in this fandom, ever, it's even better. What else I love are the bits of writery secrets that come out... how people write, and why they write what they do, case in point:
The beginning hooks the reader; the ending ensures that the story stays with him once he has finished reading I mean, amen.
Gerard with a wife and son while it seems so unlikely is also very *very* likely. There is also such a nice contrast with the way you write Gerard and the way you write Bush that even *that* brings out their characters writ large.
The "stark" writing style is something I wish I could do. I wish I could convey an entire pr0n or other scene -- images and all -- in three sentences. I totally envy that.
... and the Jason thing is a stroke of pure genius.
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asklakjdfsdghk you are way too flattering. But yeah, I particularly love that this meme has been going 'round Hornblower fandom because, seriously, I have never been in a fandom this small with such a high proportion of mindblowingly good fic/writers.
And yeah. Gerard with a wife and son, based on Captain HH canon alone, makes NO SENSE, so the fact that he has one later just seemed so bizarre to me -- and then I realized I could rationalize it by saying he's living a double life, it's part of his Dark Past, etc., and it became such a fascinating idea that I couldn't leave it alone.
Man, I wish I could do the stark writing style the way I want to. People like randomalia and quietcontrary and quigonejinn and asdfjisdgj PRACTICALLY THE WHOLE FANDOM kick my butt to high heaven when it comes to conveying things in few words. As far as I'm concerned I'm just a sad sack trying desperately to learn at their collective apronstrings. But thank you, thank you, it is so good to hear that you think I am pulling it off. <333333333333333333333
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When I first read this fic, I loved it for being fantastic interstitial fiction for The Happy Return and for doing Bush/Gerard as it deserved to be done. After reading the commentary, I've got to add total <333333 for all the thought and technical decisions behind it.
And yeah. Question from writer who can't put 4K of single-stream narrative to another: how do you decide what comes next after a given scene?
Well, I can't claim I had all that stuff consciously verbalized to myself as I was writing, or anything. But I think I did put more conscious thought into this than a lot of other things I've written, so it was fun to do the commentary.
Hm, that's a good question. In a lot of cases it's just a question of pacing, like I said -- I'm obsessive about the lengths of scenes and the amount or type of action which happens in them, and not having similar ones next to each other, so often that's how I decide. I really do write a whole bunch of scenes concurrently and then move them around as I go; often it's not so much "this should go after this" as "this CAN'T go after this, have to put it somewhere else". And there's always sort of the overarching consideration of plot and story progress, but frankly, there are so few actual events in my stories, y'know? So much of it is just character wank and filler -- and that stuff can, to an extent, go anywhere. The crucial events (which, more often than not, means porn) need to go in certain places
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The beginning hooks the reader; the ending ensures that the story stays with him once he has finished reading I mean, amen.
Gerard with a wife and son while it seems so unlikely is also very *very* likely. There is also such a nice contrast with the way you write Gerard and the way you write Bush that even *that* brings out their characters writ large.
The "stark" writing style is something I wish I could do. I wish I could convey an entire pr0n or other scene -- images and all -- in three sentences. I totally envy that.
... and the Jason thing is a stroke of pure genius.
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And yeah. Gerard with a wife and son, based on Captain HH canon alone, makes NO SENSE, so the fact that he has one later just seemed so bizarre to me -- and then I realized I could rationalize it by saying he's living a double life, it's part of his Dark Past, etc., and it became such a fascinating idea that I couldn't leave it alone.
Man, I wish I could do the stark writing style the way I want to. People like randomalia and quietcontrary and quigonejinn and asdfjisdgj PRACTICALLY THE WHOLE FANDOM kick my butt to high heaven when it comes to conveying things in few words. As far as I'm concerned I'm just a sad sack trying desperately to learn at their collective apronstrings. But thank you, thank you, it is so good to hear that you think I am pulling it off. <333333333333333333333 ( ... )
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<3 the commentary
<3 you and your writing. zomg.
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Thank you so much. XD
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And yeah. Question from writer who can't put 4K of single-stream narrative to another: how do you decide what comes next after a given scene?
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Hm, that's a good question. In a lot of cases it's just a question of pacing, like I said -- I'm obsessive about the lengths of scenes and the amount or type of action which happens in them, and not having similar ones next to each other, so often that's how I decide. I really do write a whole bunch of scenes concurrently and then move them around as I go; often it's not so much "this should go after this" as "this CAN'T go after this, have to put it somewhere else". And there's always sort of the overarching consideration of plot and story progress, but frankly, there are so few actual events in my stories, y'know? So much of it is just character wank and filler -- and that stuff can, to an extent, go anywhere. The crucial events (which, more often than not, means porn) need to go in certain places ( ... )
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