A Day in a Peculiar Life

[mage_apprentice]

Title: A Day in a Peculiar Life

Author: mage_apprentice

Fandom: Twilight

Rating: PG-13

Word Count: 3715

Warning: Mild language (tell me if the rating is too low or too high)

Inspiration: The combination of Meyer’s desire to NOT develop any of her characters outside her precious Cullens and the entire Twi.Spite.Fic community’s writing fever.

Summary:

Comments

[hyperactivator]

I love this! ^_^

[albion_witch]

Definitely more fantastical than the usual spitefic fare, I'm with the others in saying that I like that they are actually acting like normal people.

I have a few quibbles though. While I do like the inclusion of Mark, canon!Jessica does have a mother who is mentioned briefly in the correspondence at the Twilight Lexicon.

http://www.twilightlexicon.com/2006/03/11/personal-correspondance-4/

Also I noticed a few spelling/grammar errors.

Other than that, it is a rather sweet slice of life.

PS I love Kiki's Delivery Service too.

[mage_apprentice]

Really? Sounds like the Twilight wiki needs to be updated. It only talks about her description, shallow personality, and her interactions with Bella. It did mention that Jessica moved to Forks when she was really little, so I decided to take that and run with this.

I'll change some of her background since I want this to have multiple chapters (as the tags suggest), but I won't change the living conditions to include Jessica's mom since it's Meyer's job to make her characters human and real in her own books.

[albion_witch]

All right. I am looking forward to further installments, though I suggest taking a good look at your finished work before posting it. Again, I did notice some grammar errors like Lauren says, “Even if we can’t have it at your place, we can have it on mine.”

[angel_renoir]

There's a deleted scene featuring Jessica's mother working in a bank too. It should be lumped with the New Moon spork in das_sporking.

[mage_apprentice]

All that's missing is a black cat named Jiji. :3

Don't forget Angela, whose family raises miniature dragons along with her father being a Lutheran minister. They probably use their dragon breeding as a means to support their church lol.

[mage_apprentice]

That's actually just a charming coincidence. I like to talk to inanimate objects like they're kittens on the rare occasion and even call my car a "lil' car." Some stuff here is from my own life, like the relationship between Mark and Jessica is supposed to be an awkward mix between older brother/younger sister and uncle/niece due to relatively close ages (based on my relationship with an uncle), Lauren was supposed to become a "victim" of a spider dive-bomb attack during a test (which happened to me during an AP test) but the idea was scrapped, and while I was hunting for an example of a classic car to show Bella's truck has some value to it, I used my family's orange '63 BelAir lowrider.

It's still a pleasant coincidence since Howl's Moving Castle is a favorite book of mine.

[hoppytoad79]

Very nice! I like the curveball you threw in about Jessica's family being witches and warlocks and the scene with the dragon was cute. Great job fleshing out minor characters more, and, of course, for showing Bella to be the stuck up bint that she is.

[angel_renoir]

The whole thing about the witch was totally unexpected. Nice twist! Funny thing, I was just looking into Harry Potter fics the other day, LOL :D