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Monday, 30 March 2009 01:43:16
During some recent breaks in writing (as seldom as those are), I've been ruminating on the fanfic I've written and will still be writing for quite some time to come because I AM DAMN-FER-SURE GOING TO FINISH IT. Even though, yes, it's a five-parter. But I recently realised that being a five-parter, it touches on each of what one might call Firefly's 'core values', continuing themes, elements that we see appear over and over from Serenity to Serenity. I thought about the comments from more than one esteemed reviewer to the effect that 'The Guns of Yamenmiao' had a distinctly western feel to it, that they could lose themselves in its western-ness. I'm compelled to agree in light of the omnipresence of trains, guns and shoot-outs throughout that story. So what do I see as the other four core themes of Firefly, to be explored in each coming part of
Monday, 30 March 2009 14:40:24
Heh, that's pretty much how I'm feeling with my fics here, AKA Haven't written one in a while. My apologies. I just started working a second job, :knife: I'm not dead and I didn't forget. There will be more. Sometime. Soon. LOL. Thanks for bearing with me. :kiss:
Monday, 30 March 2009 19:57:39
Well, unless they're purple. The purple ones are pretty. Can I say that here? Purple is pretty? So, now that I've hopefully got the inevitable looking-like-a-complete-fool part of my first blog post ever over with... I could use a proofreader for a chapter of something I'm writting. I expect to finish sometime this week, and it should be about four to six pages in microsoft word, so it won't take long. Ships are canon, not really prominent, but Kaylee does talk about Simon at one point. Rated about PG, probably. One of my major problem areas to look for is when I get overly flowery with the narrative language, it's a habit of my writting style, but it's probably not perfect for the firefly feel. My pacing might be going too fast. I'd like to be spot on with my characterization. And I'm also trying to decide whether to keep this chapter, since it's mostly exposition, or just skip it in favour of starting the story right in the middle of all the action. I tend to write in third person passive voice, so the text should read somewhat like the perspective of the point of view character. As a stylistic choice, however, I don't fully adopt the speech pattern of the character for the narrative. Oh, and since this chapter is meant to have some comedy in it, it'd help to know if it's, you know, actually funny. And if there are any other problem spots, I wouldn't mind hearing about them so I can make some effort at fixing them. I really don't know how people beta around here... If there's any etiquette I'm supposed to observe or if anyone's interested, feel free to message me. Sorry if this is too long.