So You Always Wanted to Write Fanfic
POSTED BY: Sarahetc
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 22:17
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Sarah
I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case
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Are you trying to give us a hint of your next story? I remember last year people were saying on the boards about Mal and Simon hooking up. I don't know, but the guy who wrote that piece might not be quite right.
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"Ok, it's morning. You're getting ready to go to work. You pull on your pants. Do you fasten then zip or zip then fasten?"
"What kind of question is that?"
"It's just a question."
"Why do you want to know?"
"Why do I want to know? Because I think of these things sometimes. I was getting dressed this morning and for a second I couldn't remember which I did first. So, I started thinking about it. Does everybody do it the same way? Is it a left handed - right handed thing?"
"Do you think about this stuff a lot?"
"Yeah."
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Originally posted by HotForKaylee:
Are you trying to give us a hint of your next story? I remember last year people were saying on the boards about Mal and Simon hooking up. I don't know, but the guy who wrote that piece might not quite be right.
No. I just thought it was really funny and thought just maybe the fact that I posted it would make it that much funnier.
Not a fan of much slash myself, though I do really love "The Filament" series (find it at http://firefly.populli.org ). It's Wash/Simon, but it's so well written and actually pretty believable. I also love everything Nicole Clevenger writes about Firefly.
Are people wanting hints?
Sarah
I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case
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Are people wanting hints?
DUH!!!!!!
C'mon Girl! You know the Chronicles are like crack to me!
BTW, LOVE the Filament series. The only slash stories that sounded believable to me.
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Lost Angel
WASH: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
ZOE: We live in a space ship, dear.
WASH: So?
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Originally posted by Sarahetc:
No. I just thought it was really funny and thought just maybe the fact that I posted it would make it that much funnier.
Sarah
Youre right Sarah. As I was reading it I kept thinking "Sarah linked to this?". Personally I wouldn't change anything in your stories but I was reminded of that one night when you asked about romance in the stories and a few people took it down a couple a levels from romance. That was funny also though. I really do love everyone on this board, one big happy (slightly dysfunctional) family.
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"I heard a new joke today... What is more dangerous, than a locked room full of angry Narns?"
"I don't know."
"One angry Narn... with the key!"
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Originally posted by lostangel:Quote:
Are people wanting hints?
DUH!!!!!!
C'mon Girl! You know the Chronicles are like crack to me!
Okay. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you could use less crack. That is a load of exclamation points.
Gave these hints in taglog and elsewhere; heavy on the Radegung and Channain so far, new characters Talrius and SaintofCheese (somebody let her know, okay, cos I haven't seen her around) and maybe one more.
Oh, and maybe some hot lovin'. I still don't know.
Sarah
I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case
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I really love eleanor K's slash too--the early stories in particular of her Mal/Simon series "Things That Haunt Us" is full of delicious sexual tension that just makes me melt. Also, debchan's "Tetchy" was the first "Firefly" slash I read, and it's just excellent. So far the only Simon/Jayne I've *bought*, in terms of characterisation.
I'm more of a gen/het girl, me. have been since day one (which is scaring me to recall now is something like 13 years ago now). That's all I write, and the sheer volume of PWPs (Plot? What Plot?) that seem to make up about 80% of the slash in this fandom don't do much for me. Mainly 'cause I don't read/write fic to get turned on--I do it to get more of what I love, namely, the characters from the show I adore.
I want plot. I want to be told a *story.* And "Two hot guys doing it" isn't much of a story to me, most of the time. Any more than "A hot guy and a hot chick doing it" is, for that matter. I like plot. Plot is good. Plot makes everything better.
(tho I admit, part of what bugs me is that the characterisation feels *off* in a lot of the slash fic out there--like, it's Simon or Jayne or Mal in name only, sometimes. I think that's why stuff like lemon lashes', and deb's and eleanor's stand out to me.)
Part of what I love about the way ff_fridays have worked out thus far, actually, is seeing all the cool character vignettes that folks have written that they may not have written on their own, had they not read the challenges and decided to take part. Plus it's a great lot of fun, keeping up the Firefly Friday tradition even with teh show off the air currently :)
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Some take the high road. Some take the low road.
And some just go screaming down the highway, dropping flaming bits of wreckage.
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Sarahetc. ya think I got a problem or sumpin'? *twitch, twitch, drool*
I have to sadly agree with that. I've always been one to subtract the amount of exclamation points from someone's overall IQ. At the rate I'm going, I'm in the negative numbers now.
I actually can't decide if I'm missing my story fix or my Sarah fix. Damn you're cuddly girl!
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Lost Angel
WASH: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
ZOE: We live in a space ship, dear.
WASH: So?
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Originally posted by LJC:
I really love eleanor K's slash too--the early stories in particular of her Mal/Simon series "Things That Haunt Us" is full of delicious sexual tension that just makes me melt.
That one was very good--I read it straight through one Sat. morning-- but to me it also toed the "out of character" line. It's not even in the same 'verse as some of the PWP out there, but a little bit of it felt forced.
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I want plot. I want to be told a *story.* And "Two hot guys doing it" isn't much of a story to me, most of the time. Any more than "A hot guy and a hot chick doing it" is, for that matter. I like plot. Plot is good. Plot makes everything better.
Yes. And you know all the good ones cos you've rec'd 'em. I think the best plot piece out there is the Wash story about You-Can't-Go-Home-Again by Scrunchy. Who's real name is Stef? Help me out. The part where Wash is teaching and the cadet can't get the ship off the ground and he says something like, "No it goes like this. The fourth, the fifth, the fall and then the lift." I thought I was going to cry. Like, my heart skipped a beat.
I'm sure I should be writing her to tell her this but I'm not a part of that whole LJ clique.
Sarah
I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case
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Originally posted by lostangel:
I actually can't decide if I'm missing my story fix or my Sarah fix. Damn you're cuddly girl!
You're such my Angel. I can't compete with your hordes of fans over on the fox boards, but I do what I can.
Sarah
I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case
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