*COVETS*

[reenka]

Omg, I'm reading commentary for fic-bits on Aja's anon fic concrit meme even if I only just skim the actual bits of fic! It's really ridiculous, but I think I'm just so starved for this sort of thing! WHY ISN'T THERE MORE OF THIS IN FANDOM :( :( :( *CRIES*

Seriously, stuff like this and this is just gold. I mean, the truth is, it seems to have burnt out rather quickly (since the later fic-comments aren't getting any replies at this point), but it's just beautiful to see all this honesty and dialogue about fics :( And the writers are taking it well when they respond, too :( *clutches* THIS IS WHAT I WISH WOULD HAPPEN EVERY DAY :( But like, I'm not about to suggest a comm since those things keep dying, obviously.
    EDIT - I totally looked at Mike Smith's HBP crit thing recently and it was hilarious and I loved it, but. Nowhere NEAR how much I would've loved the same for a bunch of HP fics, whether or not they were H/D or whatever. *sigh* Clearly, I just LIVE for concrit :P

It's just. I would totally love fandom & feel on cloud 9 if at least 20% of the total written meta/critique was on fanon rather than canon :/ And I don't mean rants or general 'how to write' stuff, which exists, I just mean more of the picking-apart & analyzing of specific bits of writing. WOE.

(And yes, I know this is what most people think betas are for, but I just like this in public with a bunch of random people, apparently, that's all, 'cause I can watch all the different perspectives play out. And also because while I'd love to have some of these people as my beta, I never know who to trust/ask 'cause I have little idea as to who's good at editing/critique before I watch them at work.)

Comments

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

We are! But, um, like, five other people have told me they immediately knew it was me in anon memes :( I think I have to sit there and pretend I'm an uptight school-teacher from Memphis to write differently ^^;;;;

[loftily.livejournal.com]

If you didn't use anything but sentences, without any emoticons or anything, no one would probably know! :D

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Example:
No but see, this is just the way I write. Like, I totally overuse certain worlds and I can't help-- argh!-- emoting, and like, going on tangents and suddenly getting excited in the middle or sad (or whatever it is people put in parentheses, god I love parentheses) and then I mention something totally random and explain things and there are run-on issues, and. Um. THEN I SAY UM.

[loftily.livejournal.com]

Haha, oh, Reena. If I wanted to disguise myself, I'd probably use netspeak, but I don't think I could bear actually looking at it. Such is life.

I probably wouldn't really know the above was you, though, if it were in feedback form. Maybe? Who knows.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

You don't have enough faith in our sekrit bond :(
...Too late for me to disguise myself with netspeak, since I use it already :o

WEll I DoN't TiPE liek ZiS, but still :))

[loftily.livejournal.com]

Although, this (http://bookshop.livejournal.com/715286.html?thread=23899926#t23899926) isn't you, is it?

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

AHAHAH YES THAT'S ME, WAS THAT YOU?? 'CAUSE WHOEVER THAT IS HAS TO FINISH IT!!1 :o!

[loftily.livejournal.com]

YES HAHAHAHA GOD WE'RE SO LAME. THUMBS UP, MAN.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAH *FACEPALM* & I SAID THAT ABOUT LIKING MAUDLIN!DRACO :D :D :D TOO GREAT.
....I actually emailed Aja asking her if she wrote it 'cause I KNEW I recognized the style of writing as old-school but for some reason this didn't jibe with you in my head immediately just like my comment didn't for you :> :> (y)

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

OH MAN I KNEW IT. *pumps fist*

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

*suddenly envisions semi-incestuous three-way H/D anonymous fic between us that'd confuse everyone* :))

[loftily.livejournal.com]

Clearly I should have written it in netspeak. :D