Writing meme

[brigdh]

Stealing a meme from tumlbr, because I think I like doing such things better over here. I can't quite decide! Tumblr is more active, but writing thoughts of more than a sentence or two is so much easier on LJ. I dunno.

Anyway! Meme: Pick any passage of 500 words or less from any fanfic I’ve written, and stick that selection in my ask/fan mail. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what’s going on in the character’s heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you’d expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

My fic on AO3
My fic on LJ
(It's the same stories at either site, it's just a matter of where one prefers to look.)

Comments

[egelantier.livejournal.com]

i love your planning process and things like ANOTHER HAPPY SCENE, because yes good! and hah, hannibal will be willfully difficult with the face of ~authority just because.

leprosy would've isolated him effectively from everybody, wouldn't it? in a way tb didn't, so i'm glad you didn't go with it. i don't know, tb sounds reasonable to me? or just unspecified wasting coughing sickness.

plague feels like the most medieval disease, but then the fic would be three days long and everyone would die - i've just coughed up most of my tea on the keyboard, just so you know.

hannibal sure loves his nuns ♥

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ha, I knew I needed to balance the scenes with bad things happening and the scenes with slice-of-life of them becoming friends (or balancing the hurt with the comfort, you might say), even if I didn't know yet what the happy scenes should specifically be. Sometimes I can feel that a story needs more or less emphasis on a part of it, even if I don't know exactly what goes there.

Leprosy is weird, because in light of having ACTUAL MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE and not bloodletting or leeches or whatever, leprosy is only very very rarely contagious (actually something like 95% of people are genetically immune to leprosy), while TB is highly contagious. So if you were judging people's choices by, like, "what are Ben and Rose exposing themselves to" (not that medical safety is the only reason to be friends with someone, of course, but on that scale) leprosy is a better choice than TB.

But of course, what people believed is just the opposite – that leprosy was dangerous while TB was sort of like cancer, an inherent, internal thing – and it's their beliefs that matter more. I don't know if he would need to be isolated or not; I'd have to do more research. On the other hand, "everyone rescues Hannibal from the sanitarium" means I have a plot!