A Howling In The Factory Yard: The Making Of (part two)

[synecdochic]

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[courageandgrace]

I am going to print it and read it in the train this afternoon... Then comment. Thank you. ;) I can't say how interesting I find that. ;)
Love. Jessica

[courageandgrace]

Fact is, I would love to figure that out by myself (have while reading), so you spoil it a bit... ;) But nevertheless thank you!

[synecdochic]

Yeah, the writing meta afterwards does tend to give a lot of things away. But I figure it's fun for people who like seeing why I did things!

[courageandgrace]

Yes, and I read it yesterday, will comment on it later, and I noticed that you didn't mention his name! ;) No, it was so interesting to read it, really. But thought about a lot of things explained...
Love, Jessica

[introductory]

Your meta-essays are just driving home how incredibly detailed and intricate and complex your stories are. Howling will definitely need a re-read in the near future just so I can catch all the writerly nuances.

I seriously cannot stop thinking about that story. The longer it sits, the better it gets.

[synecdochic]

Oh, yay! I was hoping it would be one of those that got better the more you think about it. *g*

This is way more complex than my stuff usually is, and a lot of times, this sort of depth only sneaks in without me noticing -- I'm a very instinctive writer, and a lot of times, I can't tell you why something has to be the way it has to be, I just know that it does. (ivorygates and I call it the instinctive grasp of the nature of Story. We both think that some people have it automatically, some people don't, and some people can learn it if they try.) It's only with a little bit of distance do I figure out why they had to be that way ...

I'm actually working on commentary/analysis of "The Same Story The Crow Told Me" right now, which is one of those that came entirely from my subconscious and has *so many* neat structural/parallel things in it that I didn't notice until well after the fact! It's going slowly, though, because the commentary is like six times longer than the story. *G*

[synecdochic]

I told him he doesn't get any writing time until he can hand me a plot. (Hey, it worked for Cammie!)

[dani_the_girl]

"Dial Tones" is a story about running from, while Howling is just a story about running.

Interesting. Does that imply that thematically the next story in the sequence should be a story about running to?

[amaliedageek]

Oh, nice.

[synecdochic]

Huh. I hadn't thought about it, but the way I've been thinking about it so far, that could kinda fit ...

[dani_the_girl]

I can certainly see it as part of a JD/Cam post Howling story, perhaps. Just seemed like a nice balance :)