General bragging...
Nov. 12th, 2002 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
godream... and possibly some intelligent (thought about, justification of) the latest (fanfic, piece of angsty insert-obscenity-here). Anyone coming here off of Sisterstreet has heard at least half of this already, so feel free to ignore this entry. Though somewhere round here I think I put some FFVIII background, if you're interested...
First off: woohoo! Six reviews in 24 hours. I realize reviews are no measure of the worth of a fic, and that six is not many at all -- but hey, it's my speed record, so... yeah.
Second: I think I did a surprisingly decent job on the fic, all things (but two in particular) considered. I have trouble 'getting' Rinoa: she's attractive and confident and socially adept, and in general all the things I'm not. As usual, the way to identify with such perfect characters is to subject them to heavy angst. I think, though, that for once I came up with some slightly different angst: I haven't seen anyone yet tackle the idea that maybe forgetting could be good, especially for Rinoa who, when you think about it, can't help but be the odd one out of the group of SeeD mercanaries, relationship with Squall or not. If anyone knows of someone else who's already tried this: let me know, 'cause I think it's an interesting idea that probably deserves better than I can give it. Else, I'll just be proud of myself for at least trying to come up with something original in a category with 7000-some fics, I think, on ff.net alone.
Plus, a girl can't write Quistis *all* the time. (For non-FFVIIIers, Quistis Trepe made SeeD at age 15, Instructor at age 17, both achievements of distinction. She then got booted down from Instructor at age 18, because she lacked leadership qualities. She spends a good portion of the game with an completely unreciprocated crush on Squall, who I've seen referred to in fanfic as the Iceberg of Balamb. Plus, she occasionally wears glasses. I identify with her in all sorts of ways, which makes her somewhat easier to write, as long as I can keep myself from losing it and just writing about me, not FFVIII.)
Anyways. Silent Voice is also prose, which is tougher for me than poetry, in the general fiction genre anyways. I feel like with prose you have to make more sense, you have to explicate your ideas further, you have to say a lot more and you can't leave questions as open and phrases as subject to interpretation. In short, I have to know what I'm saying far more, which is not to say that I always do. Don't get me wrong, I write decent school papers, but generally any relatively serious fanfic goes into verse for me. Maybe because I associate prose with school? Oh, I don't know. I'm just rambling now, and I think I need to get some sleep -- good night, all!
First off: woohoo! Six reviews in 24 hours. I realize reviews are no measure of the worth of a fic, and that six is not many at all -- but hey, it's my speed record, so... yeah.
Second: I think I did a surprisingly decent job on the fic, all things (but two in particular) considered. I have trouble 'getting' Rinoa: she's attractive and confident and socially adept, and in general all the things I'm not. As usual, the way to identify with such perfect characters is to subject them to heavy angst. I think, though, that for once I came up with some slightly different angst: I haven't seen anyone yet tackle the idea that maybe forgetting could be good, especially for Rinoa who, when you think about it, can't help but be the odd one out of the group of SeeD mercanaries, relationship with Squall or not. If anyone knows of someone else who's already tried this: let me know, 'cause I think it's an interesting idea that probably deserves better than I can give it. Else, I'll just be proud of myself for at least trying to come up with something original in a category with 7000-some fics, I think, on ff.net alone.
Plus, a girl can't write Quistis *all* the time. (For non-FFVIIIers, Quistis Trepe made SeeD at age 15, Instructor at age 17, both achievements of distinction. She then got booted down from Instructor at age 18, because she lacked leadership qualities. She spends a good portion of the game with an completely unreciprocated crush on Squall, who I've seen referred to in fanfic as the Iceberg of Balamb. Plus, she occasionally wears glasses. I identify with her in all sorts of ways, which makes her somewhat easier to write, as long as I can keep myself from losing it and just writing about me, not FFVIII.)
Anyways. Silent Voice is also prose, which is tougher for me than poetry, in the general fiction genre anyways. I feel like with prose you have to make more sense, you have to explicate your ideas further, you have to say a lot more and you can't leave questions as open and phrases as subject to interpretation. In short, I have to know what I'm saying far more, which is not to say that I always do. Don't get me wrong, I write decent school papers, but generally any relatively serious fanfic goes into verse for me. Maybe because I associate prose with school? Oh, I don't know. I'm just rambling now, and I think I need to get some sleep -- good night, all!
