Ceci n'est pas une . . . ?
Feb. 2nd, 2006 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alixtiiA penalty does not need to be called on every breakaway. Or so my roommate has just informed the television while he plays "Stairway to Heaven" (quite well, actually).
We are losing the hockey game. Woes.
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Happy birthday to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
soundingsea.
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Still working on To Live in Hearts. It's interesting because the really defining elements of the Watcher!verse--the Dawn/Giles, the Faith/Kennedy, the Buffy/Immortal marriage, Madelyn's entire existence, so many of the character deaths--were all originally thought up as plot elements in To Live in Hearts.
Well, they are still plot elements in TLiH, but none of them are surprises anymore. Originally I tried to construct a future that was at once plausibly and surprising. Since then, while writing Divine Interventions and so many ficathon stories, I've fleshed out the backstory and future history and have 5 full pages of Watcher!verse chronology keeping track of what happens when and why.
So the way I tell the story, where I put emphases and whatnot, has to change. For the better, I think; it'll still be, like (almost?) all my Watcher!verse stories, a self-contained entry able to be read on its own, but it won't be nearly as linear, with the focus being less on who will live and die and more on the way relationships change and grow. The Faith/Kennedy will be pushed front and center, which'll be nice. I've never really written a long shippy fic where the relationship starts out slow and grows naturally.
Indeed, the shippiest thing I've ever written is "Facing the Shadows" which builds on the F/K relationship established in To Live in Hearts.
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A shout of "Yes!" has emanated from our living room. Methinks something good happened. But we were down 3-1 last I checked, so I doubt we are winning. (Roommate and myself are from different states, but both Philadelphia fans.)
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We are losing the hockey game. Woes.
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Happy birthday to
soundingsea.* * *
Still working on To Live in Hearts. It's interesting because the really defining elements of the Watcher!verse--the Dawn/Giles, the Faith/Kennedy, the Buffy/Immortal marriage, Madelyn's entire existence, so many of the character deaths--were all originally thought up as plot elements in To Live in Hearts.
Well, they are still plot elements in TLiH, but none of them are surprises anymore. Originally I tried to construct a future that was at once plausibly and surprising. Since then, while writing Divine Interventions and so many ficathon stories, I've fleshed out the backstory and future history and have 5 full pages of Watcher!verse chronology keeping track of what happens when and why.
So the way I tell the story, where I put emphases and whatnot, has to change. For the better, I think; it'll still be, like (almost?) all my Watcher!verse stories, a self-contained entry able to be read on its own, but it won't be nearly as linear, with the focus being less on who will live and die and more on the way relationships change and grow. The Faith/Kennedy will be pushed front and center, which'll be nice. I've never really written a long shippy fic where the relationship starts out slow and grows naturally.
Indeed, the shippiest thing I've ever written is "Facing the Shadows" which builds on the F/K relationship established in To Live in Hearts.
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A shout of "Yes!" has emanated from our living room. Methinks something good happened. But we were down 3-1 last I checked, so I doubt we are winning. (Roommate and myself are from different states, but both Philadelphia fans.)
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Date: 2006-02-03 02:43 pm (UTC)My dad's hockey game yesterday was confusing (because it was a pickup game with no refs or scoreboard use). Of course, it's possible I just don't understand hockey at all, too. :)