Pretties!

Here's some pretties from the Rogue Poet Awards.  Thank you so much to everyone who voted for me, and congratulations to everyone who won!





Thanks so much!

Pretties!

Here's some pretties from the Rogue Poet Awards.  Thank you so much to everyone who voted for me, and congratulations to everyone who won!





Thanks so much!

Meta: Kaleidoscope: Part I

I've never done a meta about any of my own fics before, but in light of an extremely interesting discussion on snickfic's journal, I was inspired to really explore what I wanted to accomplish with Kaleidoscope. It's the fic that is the most read (or at least most-reviewed) and most-awarded of my Buffy fics, and it was also my first fic in the fandom, so it seems a decent place to start.

snickfic was commenting on how off-putting it can be in fic "when the purpose of one or more secondary characters is to have Insights about the main character, independent of their own character development." I think this is a very true statement (we in particular talked about how this sort of device mistreats Tara so horribly), and--of course--it made me think of my fanfic that is the story of Buffy and Spike through the lenses of all the other characters. I think the story works, but why? I'm going to ramble about that for a while, if anyone's interested.

There are two things to keep in mind here: I actually love seeing a character/couple/friendship/place that I love through the eyes of another character when that character doesn't suffer because of it. The character can't be the mouthpiece of the fangirly writer (as I note below, I sometimes fail in this regard), nor can the character act out of character--for example, thinking more about another character/pairing than he or she actually would. In this meta, I'll explore whether I think if I succeeded in sticking to those two rules.

Second, most of my writing is extremely intuitive. I don't often think, "I'm going to add this as a metaphor or a motif or for this reason or that." I write something, feel that it's right and move on, or I feel that it's wrong, and I fix it--without taking much time to figure out why it was wrong and the edit is right. Because of this, I hadn't thought of a lot of things on a conscious level until this moment. It'll be interesting to see what I find.

( An Introduction )

( Fred )

( Dawn )

( Gunn )

( Willow )

( Angel )

More to come: the last five characters and and some wrapping-it-up thoughts.

Meta: Kaleidoscope: Part I

I've never done a meta about any of my own fics before, but in light of an extremely interesting discussion on snickfic's journal, I was inspired to really explore what I wanted to accomplish with Kaleidoscope. It's the fic that is the most read (or at least most-reviewed) and most-awarded of my Buffy fics, and it was also my first fic in the fandom, so it seems a decent place to start.

snickfic was commenting on how off-putting it can be in fic "when the purpose of one or more secondary characters is to have Insights about the main character, independent of their own character development." I think this is a very true statement (we in particular talked about how this sort of device mistreats Tara so horribly), and--of course--it made me think of my fanfic that is the story of Buffy and Spike through the lenses of all the other characters. I think the story works, but why? I'm going to ramble about that for a while, if anyone's interested.

There are two things to keep in mind here: I actually love seeing a character/couple/friendship/place that I love through the eyes of another character when that character doesn't suffer because of it. The character can't be the mouthpiece of the fangirly writer (as I note below, I sometimes fail in this regard), nor can the character act out of character--for example, thinking more about another character/pairing than he or she actually would. In this meta, I'll explore whether I think if I succeeded in sticking to those two rules.

Second, most of my writing is extremely intuitive. I don't often think, "I'm going to add this as a metaphor or a motif or for this reason or that." I write something, feel that it's right and move on, or I feel that it's wrong, and I fix it--without taking much time to figure out why it was wrong and the edit is right. Because of this, I hadn't thought of a lot of things on a conscious level until this moment. It'll be interesting to see what I find.

( An Introduction )

( Fred )

( Dawn )

( Gunn )

( Willow )

( Angel )

More to come: the last five characters and and some wrapping-it-up thoughts.