[hyuuuuuuu]

[nekokoban]

Occasionally, you know, I think my problem is -- now and then, I want to write really big, really dramatic!, really sharply-in-my-head scenes ... without the benefit of all the buildup. Sometimes, I don't WANT to write the 6000+ words that will lead to a certain exact scene where I can use the specific turn of phrase I have in my head; I don't want to wait.

I like my instant gratification, damnit! :<

This gets especially bad when I start reading/looking around in new fandoms -- because then there's just this whole GLUT of THINGS I WANT TO PLAY WITH! but at the same time, there's that whole "but this is a new fandom, do I know what I'm talking about no I don't, shut up me" that happens. Dramatic moments (I find) work better if they're built up to, buuuut ...

Sometimes, I just want the flash and the bang and the rabbit leaping out of the hat, and skip the hocus-pocus wand-waving beforehand.

--this message brought to you by: it's Friday, it's two hours (maybe) till my weekend, and the fact that I am entirely lame and nearly two years after a friend lent me the volumes I started reading Tsubasa and fell harder and faster than I thought I would. T______T

Also, the letter R. As in, "arrrrrrrgh."

Comments

[ontogenesis.livejournal.com]

Haha, I know *exactly* what you are talking about. I think that's the reason many people write drabbles: they don't want to write the buildup, they just want to use the pretty phrase right now, dammit!

You've become a TRC convert? Sweet. I write fic for that. If you need any info (e.g., "can I write this plot and not contradict the canon?") feel free to pick my brain. I would be very happy if you started writing fic.

[nekokoban]

My big problem is that I think very visually -- and honestly, just ordinary talk/buildup (they're in a LIBRARY! how EXCITING!) usually doesn't do much for me. (Which may be why I can pull off tactics, because hell if youkai can't be really interesting, visually♥) But then sometimes I get really neat bits of DIALOGUE and I'm like "you would work fabulously in an epic-length fic" -- which I rarely have the time/energy for.

I WILL HAVE YOU KNOW I AVOIDED TSUBASA FOR YEARS. Years. I read two volumes back in the day, was like "eh, it's fun but whatever" and then suddenly, it's like I'm seriously considering going out and buying my own copies. :<

I, I may have to take you up on that, ahahahah ...

[ontogenesis.livejournal.com]

I think visually too, to the point of imagining scenes as if they were movies. Then I try to figure out how to describe the movies I see in my brain. But yeah, sometimes there are tasty scenes or dialogue that need lots of build-up to work properly.

TRC only gets better as the series progresses. The love triangle between Sakura and the Syaoran[s] is so twisted and wonderful... and don't even get me started on Kurogane and Fai. ♥

[nekokoban]

[nods] My writer's group pointed out that in my original fiction, I write a lot like it was a comic -- very visually, though I need to work on incorporating other senses into my stuff. XD

I ... showed one of my roommates a group photo and said PICK MY FAVORITE :D and she (unerringly) picked Fai. ... I think I'm really predictable, because I really liked Syaoran and Sakura in the original CCS, but Kurogane and Fai push a lot of me HAHAHA UR DORKS buttons, at least early on. (And THEN they push my tragic angst buttons, but er. I like the dork part possibly more. XD)

[dev-chieftain.livejournal.com]

<3 Yay for falling for Tsubasa.

c_c sometimes just throwing out the climax and THEN bothering with the buildup is more effective at catching people's attention...maybe? *encourages*

*brought to your journal for the second time, this time by ontogenesis up there. XD*

[nekokoban]

I tried SO HARD to avoid Tsubasa! But then I started reading HOLiC and it was sort of "gee, to get the whole story, I need to read both, don't I?" and-- here I am.

--the thing is, the scene I have in mind could totally work at the beginning of a (long) fic, but. It would also mean I'd basically have to fly in the face of canon, since CLAMP has only just started touching on Celes and Ashura-ou and the ilk.

[so very, very weak]
p.s. Hi a second time! XD

[dev-chieftain.livejournal.com]

Aww. Why avoid it? Is it annoyingly popular right now? *sort of clueless, really* ^^; Well, I'm glad you're here! I like your fanfiction. XD

Hmm, but take heart: lots of us have already flown in the face of canon like that on the subject of Celes and Ashura-ou, since they've been giving us nothing forever anyway. It's possible I just want to see what this might shape up to be, but my intentions are good!

p.s. ^_^/ Hee!

[nekokoban]

It was ... honestly, more of the principle of the thing, since for the most part in the past, I've not been terribly impressed by CLAMP's work. XD Though I admit, experiences could have well been colored by unpleasant encounters with shrieking I-am-more-intelligent-than-thou fangirls when X was really big. (I find I tend to clash a lot with folks who're all MY FANDOM IS DEEPER AND MORE INTERESTING THAN YOURS. D:)

--and you're absolutely right, I'm just a weenie and this would be my second Tsubasa fic, and also a long(er?) one. With, like, dramatic battles and fighting and oh man, I suck at action scenes. XD I don't need the encouragement, I've got challenge deadlines breathing down my neck!

Which is to say that if (...when) I get around to it, I hope I don't disappoint. XD

♥

[dev-chieftain.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I can see that. On both counts, really; I'm kind of with you on not really getting along with people who insist such things.

Ohh, I see. :3 (Second? Where's the first? *looks curious~*)

I'm sure you'll do fine. :) your writing is so lovely!

[nekokoban]

I mean, a lot of my friends will GUSH TO NO END about how deep and intricate and brainfucked and [insert adjective of edgy coolness here] and sometimes it gets to the point even then where I'm like OKAY WE GET IT HUSH NOW, but -- at least they genuinely mean it in a "we're having fun!" way, as opposed to some of those girls, who were all ... "OUR FANDOM IS GREAT CLAMP IS GOD IF YOU DON'T SEE IT, WORTHLESS PEON, GET OUT OF OUR SIGHT." D:

(Oh, gosh, it was maybe a year or two ago? It was just a short quick little SyaoSaku fic, The Fairy-Tale Try. My god, it was lame. XD;

Thank you! I shall endeavor to do my best. :D I may even waste my weekend writing, I'm so sad with a little encouragement. XD

[ontogenesis.livejournal.com]

.... I wrote a multi-chapter child-Fai backstory. OMG, what was I thinking? But it was fun.

[nekokoban]

That's what one writes fic for anyway, isn't it? XD My idea though, is more on the "WELP WE ACCIDENTALLY LANDED IN CELES, NOW WHAT?" lines. XD;;

[dev-chieftain.livejournal.com]

[ontogenesis.livejournal.com]

That's part of the fun of fanfic writing, ne? And the only good "oh damn, it's CELES" fic I've read is incomplete, so there's definitely an opening for your idea!

[caleb-moss.livejournal.com]

Yes!!!! This is how I feel all the time!

Which is why the majority of what I write never gets put up, because no one would have any idea what was going on, though they might think and/or comment 'this is exciting, I wish she had actually decided to write a story and not a random!scene'

Sigh. Tsubasa is pretty dang addicting. And wonderful.

[nekokoban]

It's horrible. D: I'm so damn flighty -- a lot of my original stuff suffers the "but I want to get to THIS BIG DRAMATIC THING NOW, what do you mean no one knows the characters as well as I do! T__T" syndrome. I think (I hope!) I'm getting better at that, but it's a slow process. *wryyyyyy*

Tsubasa is pretty damn addictive. I tore through the whole thing in about a week and now, well. I am in that stage where I want to write fic, but knowing that they're apparently on the precipiece of big plot developments, I'm leary. XD

I am so weak vs. shiny. XD