Bored now.

[jadesfire]

Yes, I've moved onto Buffy quotes. My brain for them is better than for Round the Horne.

I'm honestly and seriously fed up with this now. I fell over again this morning, straightening up from a drawer. Every time I get up off the sofa and go anywhere, I see stars for a moment and my knees wibble. DO NOT WANT.

Hurrumph.

I am comforting myself with my flist and old NCIS episodes, but I am bored and stressing about work (I have stuff to do! Doesn't my body know that?) and failing to get anything written which makes me grouchy. Grouchier.

Hurrrrrrrrrrrumph.

I know I haven't written anything in ages, but just in case anyone remembers that I used to....

Meme picked up most recently from topaz_eyes:
Ask me a question about one of my fanfictions. It can be absolutely anything in any fic and I will tell you the honest-to-god answer. Don’t hold back. Ask about major upcoming plot points if you want to. Whatever you ask, I have to answer truthfully.

And yes, 'will you ever finish anything ever again' is a reasonable question. Most of my fic is linked from the sidebar, but I'm working on a list that actually includes everything. Right now, my total stands at around 426,000, not including unfinished pieces. That's not too bad for 3 years' work, is it?

Right. Back to the pirates. \o?

Comments

[aeshna_uk]

H/C - one character is hurt, the other(s) comfort them, invariably leading to all of the physical and emotional closeness that one would expect with romance/smut, only not quite taking that final step. I know some folks who regard it as a distinct genre in its own right, while others think it's just slash (and I have mostly seen m/m) for the prudish or homophobic. I can't say that it's a type of fic I have much interest in but I will say that the emotional "hit" with H/C can be a lot stronger than in slash, where the focus is often more on getting the smut. The anticipation can be better than the pay-off sometimes.

I think I'd say that a story has to have a plot (something happens/changes) of some form, otherwise it's a snippet or a vignette. Gen/het/slash are just flavours (or colours, if you like) of all of those things. Character studies are character studies - I think they're often a beast unto themselves and don't fit into the neat gen/het/slash categories (much like Jack. ;)), and nor should they have to. There are no hard and fast rules, though, and that's good. People should feel free to write what they want to, just as readers should be free to cherry-pick their reading matter.

Still, "fic" seems to cover all bases and all writing formats. :) Cuts through a lot of the nit-picky taxonomy.

Interacting with the world cuts both ways - characters interact with and within their environment and that environment influences how they behave and interact with one another. I can't write something if I don't have a feel for that world and an understanding, if only in my head, of how it works - it's very much an extra canonical character for me. I'm absolutely no good with AUs that place the characters into entirely different lives!