He~ey, all that time I spent writing cliche porn in GW's paid off! Odd (but I'm not complaining, really), that the PWP habit didn't follow me to this fandom. At least, not in anything I've managed to finish.
(and you know what, if it takes you half a year to get it right, you find the patience, take the time and *do* get it right, which is another Rule and also another shiny feature you possess!)
Hee. *^_^*
and you KNOW your characters
That, right there, is what keeps me from casually dabbling in multiple fandoms. It takes me a long time and a lot of focused obsessive thought to get to that point where I thoroughly know a character; it's only after a couple years at it that I begin to really 'feel' them with any real confidence. I mean, I look back at earlier works, especially that TenKenGou threesome I wrote and Better Than Sake, which was my first foray into the world of KenTen, and I'm seeing all these little minor-detail things that are just off. I've talked myself out of trying to fix them, because it's not worth the re-doing when there are other fics wanting to be written and besides, the old stuff stands as a marker of progress, in the end.
so fucking *hard* to find in fic in general, even more so concerning Hakuryuu and Gojun and Tenpou
Yes. Finding dragon fic is hard enough to begin with; finding it written by someone with a matching view of the characters is even harder. There's a fic out there with Hakuryuu/Hakkai as a side-note featured every few chapters; I was excited at first but quickly disappointed. 'Hakuryuu' is Goujun, memories intact, fully self-aware, reincarnated through his own bargain struck with Heaven, and...he's completely wrong. I spend each chapter (and yes, I keep reading them because even though it's a train-wreck I jones for dragon-fic that badly) shaking my head and discounting it all. On the up-side, it did prompt me to actually start working on an older plot-bunny of mine wherein Hakuryuu regains his manform for one night (it will be installment #3 of the 'arc' that begins with your shower-fic, assuming I ever finish it and #2) just so that I can go ahead and explore the idea my way.
your boys are a warm breath of naturalness, something I don't have to think about or think around, something that just *is* right, and so *feels* right - they pull me into the story, rather than leaving it up to me to keep myself disbelievingly suspended.
*smiles at you all wibbly* Thanks. That's...I...yeah. Thank you. ^_^; If I can write them so they're resonant, that's the best I can hope for.
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Date: 2007-07-01 10:12 am (UTC)He~ey, all that time I spent writing cliche porn in GW's paid off! Odd (but I'm not complaining, really), that the PWP habit didn't follow me to this fandom. At least, not in anything I've managed to finish.
(and you know what, if it takes you half a year to get it right, you find the patience, take the time and *do* get it right, which is another Rule and also another shiny feature you possess!)
Hee. *^_^*
and you KNOW your characters
That, right there, is what keeps me from casually dabbling in multiple fandoms. It takes me a long time and a lot of focused obsessive thought to get to that point where I thoroughly know a character; it's only after a couple years at it that I begin to really 'feel' them with any real confidence. I mean, I look back at earlier works, especially that TenKenGou threesome I wrote and Better Than Sake, which was my first foray into the world of KenTen, and I'm seeing all these little minor-detail things that are just off. I've talked myself out of trying to fix them, because it's not worth the re-doing when there are other fics wanting to be written and besides, the old stuff stands as a marker of progress, in the end.
so fucking *hard* to find in fic in general, even more so concerning Hakuryuu and Gojun and Tenpou
Yes. Finding dragon fic is hard enough to begin with; finding it written by someone with a matching view of the characters is even harder. There's a fic out there with Hakuryuu/Hakkai as a side-note featured every few chapters; I was excited at first but quickly disappointed. 'Hakuryuu' is Goujun, memories intact, fully self-aware, reincarnated through his own bargain struck with Heaven, and...he's completely wrong. I spend each chapter (and yes, I keep reading them because even though it's a train-wreck I jones for dragon-fic that badly) shaking my head and discounting it all. On the up-side, it did prompt me to actually start working on an older plot-bunny of mine wherein Hakuryuu regains his manform for one night (it will be installment #3 of the 'arc' that begins with your shower-fic, assuming I ever finish it and #2) just so that I can go ahead and explore the idea my way.
your boys are a warm breath of naturalness, something I don't have to think about or think around, something that just *is* right, and so *feels* right - they pull me into the story, rather than leaving it up to me to keep myself disbelievingly suspended.
*smiles at you all wibbly* Thanks. That's...I...yeah. Thank you. ^_^; If I can write them so they're resonant, that's the best I can hope for.
*hugs* ^_^