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Everybody's doing it! (By everybody, I mean ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
angearia and snickfic, of course!) I don't have any confidence I'll do it nearly as well as they have, but I'll take a whack at it nonetheless because theirs were so fun.
Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.
Aaaand...GO!
angearia and snickfic, of course!) I don't have any confidence I'll do it nearly as well as they have, but I'll take a whack at it nonetheless because theirs were so fun.Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.
Aaaand...GO!
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Now, please to be writing Faith/Giles so I can read it. *g*
(I can actually be quite demanding when it comes to Faith/Giles - there's just so little of it out there.)
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You're right; I don't see it a lot. But when I do, it's always from superior writers, so I guess there's that.
I would have to do a ton of thinking about those two in order to write them. Spike I find easy-peasy to write (is that a bad thing?) and I feel like I've gotten to the point where Buffy comes pretty easily. And there's Dawn, whom I adore to write. But anyone other than that is a challenge for me. I need to stretch myself.
I might have to write a drabble-ish Faith/Giles thing for you. And OH MY GOODNESS, I just checked your profile and your birthday's so soon! I make no guarantees, but I might try to whip something up before then!
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Is true. I have a theory that Giles, being more 'mature,' just attracts older and therefore often more mature writers. But the worst Faith/Giles fic I've seen has been mediocre - certainly nothing eye-meltingly bad.
Spike is definitely my favorite character to write at this point - I adore the narrative voice that I've got worked out for him, and I love the way I can fling archaic grammatical constructions and up-to-the-minute slang together at will. Dawn I feel I have a pretty good handle on, and Giles and Anya in terms of voice, if not necessarily characterization all the time. But Buffy is quite the enigma to me, both for voice and for characterization, and I don't even know where to start with Faith.
Eep! On one hand, I should love to see some F/G from you, whether written for me or not. But OTOH, there should be no stress involved. Fannishness and fanfic writing aren't allowed to be stressful - this is supposed to be fun. :)
(And of course I was just kidding with the 'demand' bit. *g*)
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I love the way I can fling archaic grammatical constructions and up-to-the-minute slang together at will. The way he talks is just so much fun, isn't it?
I love your Dawn, btw. Just so's you know.
Buffy is definitely one of the hardest characters to write, because other than a few specific things (her devotion to her sister, her struggles with depression in S6, and her feelings of isolation), I just don't identify with her at all. But I've dedicated so much time to really trying to get a handle on her character that I feel like I'm beginning to write a Buffy-voice I can be proud of. And for what it's worth, I love the way you've written her in Seraph. She's very S4-pre-Glory Buffy to me.
(I suspected as much. *g*)
In other news, I'm currently working on your birthday fic, which, if all goes well, I'll be able to post tomorrow! I probably shouldn't have said that, since now it's never going to get done, but...I wish you a happy birthday!
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Oh, gosh. I could write Spike for a very long time indeed, just for the language.
And for what it's worth, I love the way you've written her in Seraph. She's very S4-pre-Glory Buffy to me.
This is very, very nice to hear. I was reading somewhere the claim that some Spuffy authors are mostly just interested in Spike and they then write Buffy either how they want her to be, or how they are themselves, thus making her a sort of vicarious Mary Sue. And, honestly, my Seraph!Buffy really is a Buffy that makes more sense to me that many Buffy depictions do, and whom I like more and is more like me than most depictions. So I worried that I was Sueing her, just because she makes more sense to me and I like her more consistently than I do even in canon.
All of which is to say, Yay! It's very heartening to know she comes across as the real Buffy.
Yay, birthday fic! Although good wishes are very much appreciated all by themselves, fic or no. (Which isn't to say I'm not terribly excited to read you write Spuffy friendship...)
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That's a pretty interesting theory, and one that's no doubt true often. I honestly think that Buffy becomes a lot less likable in fic most of the time--people who write good fic that doesn't go all Mary Sue-ish usually depict her as very...harsh. So yeah, your depiction isn't like that at all...but I think yours is more realistic for where she was a the time you're writing her.
Of course, I'm one of those weird people who didn't start loving Buffy until the later seasons. If just the first four seasons existed, she wouldn't be my favorite character. But she is!
Well, I hope you had an absolutely wonderful day. Nothing like a Buffy-birthday at all.
What I'm working on is a FitB S5 fic...so it's not super close Spuffy friendship, but it's them talking and understanding each other and having a quiet moment (if it works *fingers crossed*), so I hope you end up liking it. How awful would it be if I wrote you a birthday fic and you ended up hating it! :O
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Yeah. I find that I often don't like Buffy very much in fic.
Well, I hope you had an absolutely wonderful day. Nothing like a Buffy-birthday at all.
I did indeed have a lovely birthday, wherein none of my nearest and dearest turned into monsters, were threatened by monsters, or wished me a forced house arrest. So yay for that. :)
Ooh! I like the sound of this fic very much indeed. Moments of understanding between unlikely people is one of my biggest narrative kinks, and is really why I started liking Spuffy in the first place.
How awful would it be if I wrote you a birthday fic and you ended up hating it! :O
Somehow, this seems like a highly unlikely scenario. *g*
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Moments of understanding between unlikely people is one of my biggest narrative kinks, and is really why I started liking Spuffy in the first place. Oh, mine, too. I have to say that I really, really wanted to like the play Coriolanus because the whole idea of this guy going to his enemy when everyone else turned on him just made me giddy. But of course that doesn't exactly work out, and the rest of the play isn't that great (or at least, the production I was wasn't; I haven't read it). I looove moments like that.
Well, I hope you do indeed like it! It's up right here.
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Oh, yes. It'd have made me giddy, too, if I knew it before just now. *g* I've read a scattering of Shakespeare - largely on my own, which explains the selection - but that's not one I've gotten to yet.
I could make a whole list of books and movies in which I love this unlikely friends/allies trope, although the one that comes to mind just now is Xavier and Magneto in the second X-Men movie.
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And I really can't verbalize how much the idea of him turning to his enemy in that moment--that there's this underlying respect there--appeals to me. I fully intend to write a book with that premise someday. (It also reminds me of Spike showing up at Giles's door in "Pangs" and throwing himself on the Slayer's mercy. Love. It.)
Oooh! That's a good one! Yeah, with them playing chess in the plastic jail cell and such? Very cool.
Sometime you should make such a list! I would love to read it!
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