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3 minutes ago, CL Mustafic said:
You are so excellent at it! You’re one of only fanfic writers I love because even when I’m not familiar with the show or book you’re writing about, I can still enjoy your stories. You make it feel like it’s not just an offshoot of something else because you make it your own and are so damn good at it. And football sucks anyway.
Aww… thank you
I suspect the crisis has been brought on by a particular demon that affects most of us. The one that sidles up to you and whispers: “Hey, you… you’re just kidding yourself. This is shit. You know that, right? You’d be much better off spending your time doing something useful. And you know everybody hates it when you spend hours and hours in front of the computer.”
I hate that demon. I wish it would die a nasty, painful death. Maybe that’s a good Halloween fic idea!
- BronxWench and Anesor
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I should probably reply to this thread when I’m not having one of those ridiculous crises of confidence that strikes every so often… but let’s pretend I’m not. So here goes:
I think the two reasons mentioned in the article are a load of claptrap. It might apply to novel writers, but it certainly doesn’t to fanfiction authors, who can’t sell what they write, so therefore the second reason can never apply. As for the first, I don’t think many of us start writing (original or fanfiction) with a fully formed story in our heads. I think it comes to us during the process.
Why do I write? Getting down to the nuts and bolts. I love the language. I like words, and I like playing around with them. I’m not educated, so I don’t always know the correct terms, but I know more or less what I’m doing. Also, despite the crisis mentioned above, I suspect I’m actually quite good at it, unlike, say… football. So I write. And I don’t play football.
I like writing casually, sure. I also like writing less casually. I like writing where I take my time over word choices and put a lot of effort into building and maintaining a specific atmosphere. The horror story I wrote for JayDee is an example of that. There’s lots of water-based description going on there that happens when I’m describing ordinary things. i.e. her hope bubbled up in her. The S&M story The Hook I adored writing, because of the atmosphere of despair in it.
Fanfiction is an art in and of itself. Lots of people who hate fanfiction will disagree with me here, and they’re free to, but I won’t change my mind. Let’s imagine I’m my usual confident self for one moment. I’ve now got years of fanfiction writing experience behind me. I’ve written in a lot of different fandoms. There’s a slightly different art to writing fanfiction for a literary medium, to writing for a visual canon, like a film or tv series. The echoes you need to include are different. At this point, I’m like a master art forger who can knock out a fairly credible da Vinci, but can’t paint for themselves. I’m not less of an artist.
I still haven’t found that key that makes the original work sparkle in my head the same way as the fanfiction does, but if I ever do, I probably won’t look back. In that case, the second reason will probably seem to apply. But it won’t be the first why and wherefore. It won’t be the driving force. That is and will always be the need to play about with words, to use them to create a feeling, or an atmosphere, or to say something that can’t really be put into words, only alluded to by way of a story. If we could say these things out loud just like that, we’d never have made stories. Stories grant us power we don’t otherwise have. It’s a good feeling, even if you tend to write rather awful things.
Ok… can I go back now?
*huddles back under rock*
- Avaloyuru, CloverReef, JayDee and 2 others
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I can write, and I'm more glad about that than being better and out of hospital. Chapter 23 is calling to me. I may as well talk about it. I don't think anyone is following this story now, and so this is really self-indulgent, especially since this is the bit that – usually – is about manipulation of the readers' emotions. Without readers, it's a bit... sort of pointless *shrugs* Always, ultimately, it's them I want to get, via the characters. But, I really do love these characters. I mean, not enough to save them from their fate, obviously. But definitely enough to want to give them this good stuff first. All this that will make it that much more awful later on. It potentiates their despair. It's kind of beautiful.
It's an investment that will pay off. I'll still do it, because it feels too right not to, even if it doesn't work on anyone except me.
I can't say how much I wish I knew what I'd done to lose the few that did follow at first. What I did to lose you. Knowing that is as important as all the rest. To kind of steal and paraphrase from the genius of Michael Ende. You were with me at the beginning. You were with me when I changed the tone. You were with me when I went places that required some tagging... where did I lose you?
*sighs*
So early. I feel so incredibly clumsy.
But I read through it, and I can't see the place, or the event, or the piece of dialogue. And I can't stop. This has to be told.
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11 hours ago, JayDee said:
Hopefully they’ve come up with a decent and non-addictive pain management program as well! At least non-life threatening.
Ha! You know as well as I do their answer to everything is codeine. That’s not happening. I’ll concede to paracetamol... when absolutely necessary. I don’t want people breaking into my house for the street value of my medicine cabinet. Sod that.
At least they sent me away with some more heavy duty antibiotics after all the IV ones. So that should finish the attack off for now, and for a while with any luck.
- BronxWench and JayDee
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Thank you, InvidiaRed
Glad you had fun!
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Just my humble opinion, but having the characters put on hats, gloves and scarves to begin leads the reader to expect play that’s a little rougher than your scene needs if the erotic content is going to work… that’s where you’re going to run into trouble. Ditch the accessories. By using them, you create a peculiar mental image, and call attention to the parts of the characters that aren’t covered up, and that makes the reader feel the cold. You want the play to be very light. You want the snow to be extremely light. You want the the Oh, but that’s cold! to be a perfect counterpoint to Oh, but you’re warm! That’s how this scene would work. I’ve written it before, more than once. And I’ll write it again, because…
Ahhh… they’re going to end up in the snow. Poor buggers. Even the wildling is going to hate it by the end. I am so evil. *shakes head at self*
- JayDee, CloverReef and InvidiaRed
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And… I’m back home!
Two CT scans later, after a panic by the doctors where they thought I didn’t have appendicitis, but instead a much more serious inflammation ofthe main artery that supplies blood to my legs (scary), they’ve finally settled on a painful disease that isn’t life threatening (or at least, not yet). I’ve been knocked out with morphine and codeine and shoved full of antibiotics.
What a performance.
While I was there, I discovered why I never write longhand. I love my computer.
Thank you for all your well wishes, everyone. Most appreciated, even if I did have a load of trouble getting online whilst I was there.
Normal service shall now be resumed. After a good night’s kip. And a decent cup of coffee. And a couple of days rest, probably. And a shower to get this horrible hospital smell off of me.
- Desiderius Price, JayDee, BronxWench and 1 other
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So I went to work, and did feel better for a little bit, but I guess I paid for it later on after I’d dropped the greyhound off for her appointment at the vet for her teeth.
I waited until 6pm to get the dog back. She’s had two teeth out and is on the settee all woozy, poor thing. Vet also dug two corns out of her feet while she was under.
Yes, I waited for her, but then I dialled the NHS, to see what was going on with me, because I’ve been in – well, I wouldn’t call it agony, because I’ve had gallstones before, but it’s close enough. I don’t know why their phone number exists. Off I go to hospital, as soon as I’ve gathered some stuff together, because it could be my appendix. At my age! Why can’t they just cut all the useless bits off when you’re young?
Anyway, hope it isn’t. Hope I come back quick. Like tonight. Hope I come back. I am not bloody dying on the 10th of October. They can’t make me.
(If, later, it turns out to be the case, I’d be grateful if you could all go ahead and believe it happened on the 11th for me)
Oh, and I’m taking paper and a pen with me, because they kept me in for one night for the gallbladder surgery, and I was climbing the walls then.
*looks at dog*
Seriously bad timing this. Really, terribly bad...
*sighs*
*swears*
*disappears*
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Ok… *whistles Wedding March*
Yep! Tormund is getting hitched!
If you read – have fun! This is a really long chapter from me, at around 5,500 words.
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Kind of stalled on this at the moment. Not sure why, because I can still “see” the scene very clearly, it’s just not… *sighs* I wish I could turn the TV off, but other people would have things to say about that
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If you read – enjoy! Yes, Clegane finally gets there, and he feels fairly good about it.
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Hello, Hide_My_Sins
As a moderator of the archive, when I saw this post I had to respond.
I’m so sorry that these reviews have been left for you. After reading your post, I did go to check them out, and see if I could identify the user at all.
I’m sure the lead moderator will have something to say too, but we take a very dim view of flame reviewers here. As long as a stories’ tags are correct, this archive is against censorship of any kind. That includes those who leave flame reviews, since often the aim of them is to stifle the free creativity of others.
If you want those reviews removing from your stories, we can help you with that. You can also turn off anonymous reviews in your preferences, which would force this person to log in, and therefore stop them from hiding behind anonymity.
Lastly, I hope that this experience won’t put you off, and that we’ll continue to see you making use of AFF and the archive for a long time to come. That’s what we are here for. We are all of us, together, a community, though we all write different things for lots of different reasons. When you joined us, you became part of that, and you are as important as any other member here. As I say if you need any help or guidance, just let us know.
- Anesor and Desiderius Price
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4 hours ago, BronxWench said:
I’m always happy to read a chapter for you!
Thank you! You are made of awesome – I’ve PM’d you
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Reviews for We're All Going to Die
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From BronxWench on September 30, 2017
Chapter 17:
Oh, I spoke too soon in an earlier review! I have never been so tickled to see some of Lord Bolton's followers as I was in this chapter. And if anything, Clegane's kills were too nice and easy. I quite approve of Tormund's methods, however. Such a delightful weapon! He should give one to Clegane as a clan thing.
Now, do I think Brienne will approve? Possibly. Vicious as it was, it is still justice. Maybe not the kind you could talk about in a high sept, but still. Certainly no one at Winterfell would question that sort of justice.
The things the pair of them will do to please Brienne...
Thank you, Bronx!
I know I’m probably taking some liberties with the time framing of all this, but hell.. they deserve a treat after that. So I left one for them.
Haha… myself, I’m like, wow, bit of an overreaction there, guys! But, hey, I let them do what they want. Can’t complain if they do it.
I’m not sure about Brienne… from what we’ve seen, I don’t think it would be beyond the realm of possibility that she’d join in if she was there. I mean, remember the “Two quick deaths?” scene? She likes her justice.
And you are all caught up!
If you don’t mind, and when you have some time, let me know if you are happy to read through the next chapter for me. It’s the Tyrion one. Just now, I’ve let it happen in Clegane’s pov, because I think the reveal works better that way. But… I keep referring to it in my head as the Tyrion Monster, because it’s one of those that existed for a good week or two on my machine as plain dialogue like a script, and I’ve had to do all the shading in, and you’re never quite sure when you do that if it reads properly. :/
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Reviews for We're All Going to Die
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From BronxWench on September 30, 2017
Chapter 16:
Oh, so close! Poor bastards, poor, poor bastards... Honestly, if anyone told me I'd feel sorry for Clegane or for Tormund, I'd have laughed at them. But I feel profoundly sorry for them, despite wondering how badly they'll get beaten come the morning.
Clegane is right, as ever, but dear gods, that poor bastard.
Thank you…
Oh… I kid you not, I didn’t know if I’d be able to do it. I’d known for a while I was going to try it, and I knew the reasoning, and the angle I was going to use, and I still though. Shit, no… the muse will kill me. But.. it happened. Poor bugger. But it fits! That’s the thing! When you think about Arya etc. It fits so well it has to be right. IMO anyway.. Poor sod.
If it means anything. He’s currently there right now in my libre office. Or just about to be, for real. *giggles*
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From BronxWench on September 30, 2017
Chapter 15:
I must say, I really am enjoying this slow burn. Honestly, rushing this would be the biggest crime, and you make such a meal of each step forward in their journey. It's prefect, because I can hear each of them, see each of them, and it's entirely true to them all. That is probably the most delicious thing about this story. They are each, all three of them, themselves.
Brienne's courage in admitting her fears is simply superb, and so much in character for her. I loved how neither Clegane nor Tormund attempted to pretend to know how she'd feel. It's that level of respect they have for her as a warrior which makes her so much more desireable as a woman, isn't it?
Thank you
Honestly, I couldn’t rush these characters. If I tried, I’d completely lose them. She needs a lot of time, and he does too. Tormund, not so much, which is why he kind of took a back seat near the beginning of it all. He’s coming to the forefront more now, though. And especially as they begin in earnest. That surprise is on its way. I’m hoping it will appeal to Brienne’s romantic heart, and I think it will. She follows the seven, so she doesn’t need to take it so seriously, which will help. The getting there will be quite dramatic though.
Brienne’s fears… it seemed to me that she’d had the courage to do all these different things, talking about what came next would really be natural. And she demands to be taken seriously for them too. She not a girl, she’s a woman, and I think both Tormund and Clegane understand that quite well. They know she’s not silly. Having said that, I think they were both fairly alarmed too, and clueless, lol.
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From BronxWench on September 30, 2017
Chapter 14:
Ah, the bear story... gods, I hated the Boltons then with a passion. Brienne always was worth more than the bloody lot of them could ever dream, and all they saw was what their stunted greed showed them. And it was one of the few times I truly liked Jamie Lannister, too. His sense of honor has been seriously atrophied thanks to his bitch sister, but it manages to break free from time to time.
I did love how Clegane and Tormund wanted details, to hunt down any of the bastards who might still live. Really, they're yummy when being bloodthirsty. I imagine it would be the most delicious foreplay for them both, too.
And now the promise of fulfillment to warm their hearts while Brienne beats them senseless. How perfect!
Thank you so much!
I honestly found that scene bloody horrible to watch. Brienne deserves so much better, and I was so glad when Jaime rescued her.
I think at this point, anyone who threatens her would get a great deal of violence from the two of them. I can easily imagine her getting all pissed off at being interrupted though, lol.
Oh, I think she’d need to beat them down. She’s never going to lie back and think of Westeros, is she? Not even when she’s liking it
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From BronxWench on September 30, 2017
Chapter 13:
Podrick, poor lad. He is tougher than he looks, though, and truly, I can't imagine anyone not scared of facing the three of them.
Valyrian steel for Tormund, is it? He'll use it well, especially after that night he spent with Beric atop what wa sleft of the Wall. Jon Snow owes Tormund a greater debt than he would Clegane, so it does make sense to give the Tarly sword to Tormund for now.
But Clegane got me again: "What kills you is hope. Fucking hope." It's the sad truth, in their world. Hope is aluxury none of them can afford. They need to hold on to each day, and pray for a clean death, however unlikely that might be...
Thank you again!
Ah, but Podrick has now shown himself to be capable and courageous in front of the whole of Winterfell. There’ll be no more idiots causing trouble for him. Brienne is clever, and careful with her friends.
Hmm… Tormund for now. I’m afraid this is the first part of my author manipulation. Second part will be coming. But really, Jon Snow would see the three of them as amazingly useful, especially given the information he’s about to receive about himself, and how he might end up fighting in this war.
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From BronxWench on September 30, 2017
Chapter 12:
Lots of reading for me today, and I'll enjoy it all.
I love this chapter, if only for this line: “I can't take much more of this. I don't like being in a good mood. I don't know how to do it. I've had no practice at all.” It's just utterly perfect, and I can hear it, in his growl. I imagine Brienne was even more pleased with herself for that. But I did find myself nodding when he declined, the night before. He was right, and it was lovely to see him understand that.
And Tormund is wicked, just wicked. Such a tease!
Now, off to read more lovely things...
Thank you, Bronx!
lol… I was sure Clegane would decline, just as he did, and I was also sure Brienne wouldn’t be able to resist a little bit of “practice” of her own.. even while he was asleep. I think she’d have that kind of approach, to be honest. And, if she did give herself the go ahead, I think she’d have very few hang ups.
As for Tormund, he is wicked, but he’s also got an amazing scene coming up when things start coming together. I’m going to be writing that next. See… I don’t think he can actually have her without getting into some kind of ‘being married’ situtaiton, so I’ve got a little plan. And so has he. Good job he’s a lunatic. It’s a do it or die thing. And the last of Brienne’s defences will finally come down… really excited for writing this!
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So the dog is doing okay. She’s had an injection, and another one today. She’s finally started eating again, and is on a strict diet of chicken and rice. She’s happy. That’s more cooking than I can be bothered with for myself at the moment. Although, a week on monday she’s going under to have her teeth cleaned and any extractions done – a whole other can of worms. Greyhounds and their teeth. I’m sure it’s their racing diet. They get fed crap. And cocaine
As for the story, I might finally be getting to the end of shading in the Tyrion scene that I wrote the dialogue for some time ago. Having said that, I’m not altogether sure I’m happy with it, which is a bit of a bugger. I’ve more or less already got the next two or three smut chapters word perfect in my head, waiting to be written down.
So, it might be a while. Right now I’ve kept it in Clegane’s pov. If I decide to switch to Tyrion to see if it works out any better, I’ll have to rewrite the whole bloody thing from the beginning, and it’s a four thousand word chapter. So… *sighs*
If you’re reading this looking for updatds… sorry, folks. I just don’t know when.
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Reviews for We're All Going to Die
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From ANON - Re: Chatper 17 on September 27, 2017
Well, that was a...bloody good time. Get it? Bloody?
*crickets*
...I'll show myself out.
Haha! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it, Anon
Regarding this chapter, I was a little surprised by Tormund, but then on reflection, I think it’s right. He’s completely at ease with himself, he admits in canon he’s “good at killing people” and we see he’s actually quite violent when necessary. I think this fits very well for him, given the situation.
But, yes, it’s quite bloody indeed.
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