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eldabeFirst, does anyone want to do a really quick brit-pick? The fic is around 1,000 words, but I think I might have thrown all the British words I know at the screen. (When I first wrote it, I had been in the UK for about four months.) You don't need to edit, just make sure I didn't misuse a word...
On that note. Have you ever felt like you failed to get your point across in a fic? It's a perfectly fine story, but I've clearly not captured the feeling I want to get across, and I'm not sure if I can. And I'm proud of what I did create, and I would have to utterly destroy it to get to my original point, I think. Maybe if I play more with format, or cut some of the fluff? It's not plot I'm trying to convey, it's a feeling.
(It's like how I write poetry. No one gets what I was thinking but me. It's also possible I'm a terrible writer, so it's good that I decided to give up on my author dream in tenth grade.)
This is not the longest time I have spent completing fic. (I wrote it last May.) But it is the longest time I have actively agonized over a story. I've come back to edit it over and over again, debating myself over word choice and imagery and order.
And while I'm on it, I have to stop reading fanfiction on campus. Really. There are some things poeple shouldn't be able to read over your shoulder.
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Also, I now want GDL as a medieval fantasy hit-man. I'll have to read the rest of the series and pick someone for him to play. (I think the super-loyal dude in Dany's storyline has already been cast, but he did have a broadsword.)
AND YES TORCHWOOD BELONGS IN CARDIFF. I wonder if he knows that he has hoards of fans ready to follow him anywhere. Vive la revolution?
On that note. Have you ever felt like you failed to get your point across in a fic? It's a perfectly fine story, but I've clearly not captured the feeling I want to get across, and I'm not sure if I can. And I'm proud of what I did create, and I would have to utterly destroy it to get to my original point, I think. Maybe if I play more with format, or cut some of the fluff? It's not plot I'm trying to convey, it's a feeling.
(It's like how I write poetry. No one gets what I was thinking but me. It's also possible I'm a terrible writer, so it's good that I decided to give up on my author dream in tenth grade.)
This is not the longest time I have spent completing fic. (I wrote it last May.) But it is the longest time I have actively agonized over a story. I've come back to edit it over and over again, debating myself over word choice and imagery and order.
And while I'm on it, I have to stop reading fanfiction on campus. Really. There are some things poeple shouldn't be able to read over your shoulder.
____
Also, I now want GDL as a medieval fantasy hit-man. I'll have to read the rest of the series and pick someone for him to play. (I think the super-loyal dude in Dany's storyline has already been cast, but he did have a broadsword.)
AND YES TORCHWOOD BELONGS IN CARDIFF. I wonder if he knows that he has hoards of fans ready to follow him anywhere. Vive la revolution?
