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slash100 Hearts Pounding challenge: Pulse and Impulse - Legolas/Gimli, PG. Kind of sappy.
Answered the last character interview question: Galadriel
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Had a dream about Neville. He was in danger. Also, he was dating Hermione. I mentioned this to the boy when we were at the pub and he was most enthusiastic about it. (It wasn't until afterwards that I realised that we have a very Hermione/Neville relationship ourselves. *g*) Because, he said, Hermione should have a boyfriend for the interim whilst waiting to be old enough to date Snape. (The boy is such a shipper!)
I said, but what about Ron? He opined that Ron could have Goyle. And then reconsidered that Goyle was too good for Ron. I'm not sure why he's down on Ron -- Ron's actually my fave of all the kids.
But so long as Ron was well taken care of, I could really go for Hermione/Neville. I think Neville would appreciate Hermione in a way that Ron doesn't.
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Also at the pub, I was distracted by a Stargate episode on one of the TVs. But it was Bane, so I wasn't too distracted.
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I've been writing this weekend, working on my rather large (for me) HP WIP and it's excruciatingly hard to get the words onto the page. It makes me wonder -- does this mean the story will be better or worse than one that just pours out of me? Is there even a correlation there?
Do you find that the stories that come easily to you are your better ones? Or are the ones you agonize over a higher quality? Or do you think the hard ones are better but you get more feedback on the easy ones?
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I need a drink. I now have a steady supply of caffeine-free Coke, so I can get back to supplicating my muse with rum and Coke, which I've not done since I went off caffeine almost two years ago.
Hail Eris! There is rum. There will be words.
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Generally speaking, the ones that pour out of me are better written, in terms of style/loveliness of prose, and oftentimes in characterization, but the agonizing ones are the ones where the plot works and everything ties together in the end.
I think a combination of the two approaches works best in longer stories...
Actually, I've only ever written longer stories with that first burst of inspiration and then long agonizing stretches of two or three words at a time, so maybe I'm not the best judge...
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Hmmm. Well, the ones that flow early on are the ones that tend to be more organic, and the plot flows from the events in the story instead of being laid out in advance. I think it shows in the quality of the narrative. However, I've agonized over some of those stories in the *editing* phases, so...I'd say it's a combination of both, that produces some of the best stories.
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I don't start a story without that first burst of inspiration, and the story has to be very, very short in order to not hit the point where I'm sweating blood for every word. Therefore, the ones that are all inspiration obviously aren't as complex nor long enough for a plot. Of course, in fandom my finished work is all flashfiction, so I don't know that my readers can tell which stories are all inspiration and which ones took more effort.
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I was honestly expecting to see a little bit more of this in the book, at least of Luna crushing on Ron. I'm not entirely sure how well it would work out, though. I don't think Ron has a high tolerance for her weirdness.
But maybe learning to tolerate it would be the way in, story-wise. Hmm. She'd certainly keep Ron off-balance.
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My favorite stories are the ones that came easy. They feel more natural, more organic, like the story was just waiting for me and I wrote it down. The ones I have to pull from my brain, every word kicking and screaming bloody murder all the way...those I like less.
I can't vouch for quality, but one of the easiest stories I've ever written (in XF) is probably the thing I get the most feedback for, to this day. It's not exactly in character and is, as a result, not a favorite of mine, but people love it because it's a happy story. I actually enjoyed writing it a great deal, but I don't recognize the Scully in it at all. It's too much of a departure from canon, and it wasn't deliberate at the time. Ah, so young, so clueless.
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I've been thinking about this. It's similar for me, but not entirely the same. I think the memory of the difficult writing experience can taint your judgement of the story, actually, so it's hard to say.
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I'm not sure about writing, but your question about whether a story that was difficult to write turns out better made me think of a musical experience. About ten years ago my husband (http://pistorius.livejournal.com) and I played in a Celtoid band. He played flutes and whistles and a reed organ; I played rhythm guitar and sang, and we had a third guy who played good lead guitar and bouzouki. One of the songs we did was "The Foggy Dew", and I always used to work myself into a fury to sing that and put all the rage and scorn I could muster into my performance. It never received much applause. The song we did that got the biggest hand was "I'll Tell My Ma", a really silly little ditty notable only for the speed with which we performed it.
*scratches head* I'm not sure what my point is, but I certainly have made use of my musical experience in my fanfiction. *g*
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