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[iceinyourmusic]

Idea for short story: novelist suffering from writer's block discovers heretofore-unknown play by Shakespeare, types it up and submits in email attachment to publisher as own work. Outcome of plot to depend Choose Your Own Adventure -like on current fashionability rating of pastiche at the time of reading.

I didn't make it through very many DWNOGA stories before the authors were revealed, this christmas, but the ones I had time to read, I processed in the same manner as last year - writing down short observations and sorting them out under "yes", "no", and "maybe". And the bizarre rating system aside, this always amuses me more than I expect it to, because it's the only time of the year I ever articulate my reactions to stories - and it's both up-lifting to see that I'm not, you know, pathologically incapable of having reactions, after all, and sometimes interesting to see what kind of reactions I do have. And all of that aside - I do wish there was more discussion about fic in fandom. About specific stories, I mean. Outside feedback, outside recs per se. Just, discussion. (I wouldn't participate, of course, but it's something I'd like to see.) And I'm not explaining this very well, but. You probably know what I mean. My head is like a styrofoam container.

Should go home but insomnia, I spent all of Wednesday baking a mushroom pie. - There are all these crows living, residing in our back yard. It's like fucking Birds out there. Flapping wings and those cursed beaks! So many beaks!

Comments

[karintheswede]

As in: "this story has these qualities, and through a close reading I have come to the conclusion that it is really about this" ie, what we do every. single. day? Just the thought of Blahblah and her ilk trying to do that gives me a headache. Especially after the last few days' chat about Emma (you haven't missed anything. No, really.)

Also, Linus Wahlgren's stage persona is very Lance, which is funny, because up until like September I'd never have thought about that. You and Anna managed to thoroughly corrupt me. Well done!

[leksa.livejournal.com]

As in: "this story has these qualities, and through a close reading I have come to the conclusion that it is really about this" ie, what we do every. single. day?

yes! except far less formally and impersonally and whateverly, of course, this being, you know, fandom and not academia, or something. because it's damn good fun. (you can't tell me you don't think it's fun. i wouldn't believe you.) but also other things. and it's not like there's not any of it, i'd just like more.

as for certain people getting into it. (i was there for, like, two lines worth of the Emma discussion and already wanted to reach for a wrench and bash own head in, at that given moment, but.) i assume one'd just have to skim past them, the way one skims past badfic and annoying showcommentaries and useless meta and such things anyway?

(also, mwahaha. lance!)

[karintheswede]

Of course it's fun! I'm just doubting it would, you know, work. But you have a point.

(yes, Lance. Was funny.)