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Apr. 19th, 2002 12:10 pmSilly M, deleting my entry last night just as I'd finished. He will pay.
So, I've begun the long, agonising path to an updated recs site. Writing story recs is a process not unlike having your teeth pulled out, as I'm sure I've said before. Last night I managed to write two, and then had to retreat, panting and gasping from the strain.
I sit there with all the stories I have enjoyed over the last month or so, thinking: I really loved that story.
What else? Er...it was really, really good. It had good characters. Pause for some head-banging on keyboard and some grunting.
Think of all the stories you like, and then try and articulate why you like them, and then do that 20 times. And try to make it sound enticing.
Why do I bother doing recs then? It's personal crusade against the overweening horror and cataclysmic dross to be found on fanfiction.net. Well, that's not really why I do it, but it's a damn fine reason. It's because I want people to be able to find good fanfic fairly easily, and I want to share all the amazing stories I've read. It's worth all the pain, heartache and embarrassment of lame one-liners like 'a short bittersweet story'.
I've relied on good recs pages in the past, and when I started reading Harry Potter, there didn't seem to be many around, so I thought I'd do my own. Hopefully it's of use to somebody, or it would be if I updated the blasted thing.
I rec all sorts of stories. There's the amazing kind that suck me in and then gently gob me out at the end, feeling all tingly. There's the kind that aren't perfect but that make me remember them: it may be a plot point, a piece of dialogue, just something really well handled. There are even stories on my recs pages that I don't like any more, but someone somewhere will certainly like them.
So, I've begun the long, agonising path to an updated recs site. Writing story recs is a process not unlike having your teeth pulled out, as I'm sure I've said before. Last night I managed to write two, and then had to retreat, panting and gasping from the strain.
I sit there with all the stories I have enjoyed over the last month or so, thinking: I really loved that story.
What else? Er...it was really, really good. It had good characters. Pause for some head-banging on keyboard and some grunting.
Think of all the stories you like, and then try and articulate why you like them, and then do that 20 times. And try to make it sound enticing.
Why do I bother doing recs then? It's personal crusade against the overweening horror and cataclysmic dross to be found on fanfiction.net. Well, that's not really why I do it, but it's a damn fine reason. It's because I want people to be able to find good fanfic fairly easily, and I want to share all the amazing stories I've read. It's worth all the pain, heartache and embarrassment of lame one-liners like 'a short bittersweet story'.
I've relied on good recs pages in the past, and when I started reading Harry Potter, there didn't seem to be many around, so I thought I'd do my own. Hopefully it's of use to somebody, or it would be if I updated the blasted thing.
I rec all sorts of stories. There's the amazing kind that suck me in and then gently gob me out at the end, feeling all tingly. There's the kind that aren't perfect but that make me remember them: it may be a plot point, a piece of dialogue, just something really well handled. There are even stories on my recs pages that I don't like any more, but someone somewhere will certainly like them.
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