On the flight up to the family cottage (where I am this week), I was scribbling out a bunch of emails, longhand, to type up once I got back online. When I did, I saw your comment as well as the latest chapter, and laughed, because there you were chatting about writing to an open canon, and there I'd been, nattering about exactly the same thing. I'm just gonna consolidate replies and dump it all here. :o)
It's been much easier to write the story I'd been wanting to write with the new information from the back half of the season. So I am sort of, tentatively, learning to love the dynamic aspect of the continuing story.
I think the revision you had to do to accommodate canon developments -- Blaine's increasing angst, mostly -- did you a favour. I don't know what your outline looked like before, in terms of its conflict arc, but this is so good -- the slow layering on of troubles, the foreshadowing of DWS in multiple small ways. A story this size will start to feel flat if it never develops a nice, crunchy conflict. Yours showed up in just the right spot. Plus, the way you weave it in -- I so appreciate your talent for taking canonical details and character actions that are sometimes clumsily handled due to time constraints, missing a link or two in the emotional logic chain, and filling them in, making them make perfect sense. The scheduled make-out sessions, for instance.
Btw, relatedly, I saw an interesting interpretation of Kurt in Michael the other day (somewhere on tumblr; can't remember who):
"Sometimes when you realize how far you can go, you reign yourself back in hard. Which means, maybe realizing he could totally, totally, totally murder Sebastian is why Kurt went so easy on him."
Still mulling that over, but...yeah. Maybe. Yeah.
Glee fandom moves so fast it makes me dizzy
Oh my lord. I've been banging around for over a decade, and every fandom has its special brand of weird, but Glee is extra weird. Impatient is the first word I would pick if I had to play one of those "describe in three adjectives" games. In the end I think you're right about expiration dates though. Speaking for myself, I don't mind if my own stuff doesn't get widely read, as long as the people who find it enjoy it.
Gundam Wing, which I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit to since back in the day it had a rep for ridiculous & trivial wank
Hee! I was wondering if I could have run into you before -- didn't think so; your voice is pretty distinct, but as I said, over a decade -- but nope, I haven't read a lick of Gundam Wing. Wanky, eh? I come to you by way of Buffy fandom: a standard-bearer for civility and grace. *dry*
have you any Glee stories posted? I probably should go have a bit of a stalk of you on AO3
Not yet, and whoops, AO3 isn't completely current with my other fandoms, either. I started in LotR, achieved brief fame in Buffy (fandom of my heart) for writing pegging fic, then ambled over to Stargate. Brief detours into Potter and Fullmetal Alchemist and of course Yuletide. I've written a lot of poetry. Sestinas. One of these days I should go back and write a Buffy/Spike pegging sestina.
something I would adore to see for Kurt and Blaine on the show: some cuddly, comfortable spooning and intimate conversation.
I, for one, deeply appreciate your excellent sense in writing what you wish to read.
Notes on the latest instalments: I love the 2 AM kitchen conversation -- Kurt joking about sex (!) and Finn joking back and Blaine grinning through his fingers. I love what the scene says about each character, and I love it for being a pocket of warmth in a mean, cold spring.
I love the small, homey details of Kurt's gardening ambitions, and the scattered, possibly incidental relationship metaphors: cutting the tops off problems without getting at their roots, the importance of tending it regularly and often.… Also I like that he's using it as a way to reconnect with Mercedes; it's nice, after that conversation with Sam a few instalments ago. Kurt: processes information in his own time, and then he deals.
The two boys pressing up together, naked, and Blaine promising Kurt he'll take care of all of him, not just his body, made me melt.
Good luck pounding out the rest of this! Home stretch! *pom poms*
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It's been much easier to write the story I'd been wanting to write with the new information from the back half of the season. So I am sort of, tentatively, learning to love the dynamic aspect of the continuing story.
I think the revision you had to do to accommodate canon developments -- Blaine's increasing angst, mostly -- did you a favour. I don't know what your outline looked like before, in terms of its conflict arc, but this is so good -- the slow layering on of troubles, the foreshadowing of DWS in multiple small ways. A story this size will start to feel flat if it never develops a nice, crunchy conflict. Yours showed up in just the right spot. Plus, the way you weave it in -- I so appreciate your talent for taking canonical details and character actions that are sometimes clumsily handled due to time constraints, missing a link or two in the emotional logic chain, and filling them in, making them make perfect sense. The scheduled make-out sessions, for instance.
Btw, relatedly, I saw an interesting interpretation of Kurt in Michael the other day (somewhere on tumblr; can't remember who): Still mulling that over, but...yeah. Maybe. Yeah.
Glee fandom moves so fast it makes me dizzy
Oh my lord. I've been banging around for over a decade, and every fandom has its special brand of weird, but Glee is extra weird. Impatient is the first word I would pick if I had to play one of those "describe in three adjectives" games. In the end I think you're right about expiration dates though. Speaking for myself, I don't mind if my own stuff doesn't get widely read, as long as the people who find it enjoy it.
Gundam Wing, which I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit to since back in the day it had a rep for ridiculous & trivial wank
Hee! I was wondering if I could have run into you before -- didn't think so; your voice is pretty distinct, but as I said, over a decade -- but nope, I haven't read a lick of Gundam Wing. Wanky, eh? I come to you by way of Buffy fandom: a standard-bearer for civility and grace. *dry*
have you any Glee stories posted? I probably should go have a bit of a stalk of you on AO3
Not yet, and whoops, AO3 isn't completely current with my other fandoms, either. I started in LotR, achieved brief fame in Buffy (fandom of my heart) for writing pegging fic, then ambled over to Stargate. Brief detours into Potter and Fullmetal Alchemist and of course Yuletide. I've written a lot of poetry. Sestinas. One of these days I should go back and write a Buffy/Spike pegging sestina.
something I would adore to see for Kurt and Blaine on the show: some cuddly, comfortable spooning and intimate conversation.
I, for one, deeply appreciate your excellent sense in writing what you wish to read.
Notes on the latest instalments: I love the 2 AM kitchen conversation -- Kurt joking about sex (!) and Finn joking back and Blaine grinning through his fingers. I love what the scene says about each character, and I love it for being a pocket of warmth in a mean, cold spring.
I love the small, homey details of Kurt's gardening ambitions, and the scattered, possibly incidental relationship metaphors: cutting the tops off problems without getting at their roots, the importance of tending it regularly and often.… Also I like that he's using it as a way to reconnect with Mercedes; it's nice, after that conversation with Sam a few instalments ago. Kurt: processes information in his own time, and then he deals.
The two boys pressing up together, naked, and Blaine promising Kurt he'll take care of all of him, not just his body, made me melt.
Good luck pounding out the rest of this! Home stretch! *pom poms*