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[xahra99]

 So, turns out I've not been posting recently. Reason is, I've been working on an epic novel-length fic. (and starting my own business, and moving about twelve thousand miles, again, but that's another story) This is pretty much the first long fic I've finished entirely before posting (I'm usually much more of an instalment writer) and it's been

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[dramatorama]

I don't know if it counts, but Robin Hobb's Fitz/Fool series, at 8 books, is probably my favourite ridiculously long series of fiction. I think it's because she takes the time to shake out and re-examine the way her characters were thinking, feeling and acting in earlier books - she does it so subtly and cleverly, it makes it honestly like reading a life, with hindsight and regret and all the rest

[xahra99]

Wow! What an epic comment!
I love Hobb, but have to admit I actually prefer the Bingtown books. I like the setting and the female characters, although I spend a great part of the early books wanting to slap Malta. And sometimes Althea. The new Fitz/Fool book is pretty cool,although I did read a review describing the book as a 'four hundred page description of retirement'. Stories set after the happy ever afters are much more interesting than the mcGuffin quests.
King is never going to be one of my favorite authors, but there's something about bookends. 'The man in black fled into the desert, and the gunslinger followed' is such a perfect way to finish and begin a story.
It made me laugh to think of my FF8 fics being reread. Those remind me so much of university, back when I hadn't even played the game and thought twenty pages a fortnight was a completely reasonable amount of fic to be writing.Good times.