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kleenexwomanGot 'nother fic up on the Pit. "Reeling Off The Years."
It's got a shitload of dialogue. Dialogue, dialogue, dialogue, I love it. Just dialogue for the sake of dialogue. Nobody does that anymore, did you ever notice? It's all infodumping or angsting or dirty talk (ooooh!). That's the difference between the hacks and the great ones. Like Quentin Tarantino. How does talking about cheeseburgers advance the plot? What purpose does it serve? Who gives a shit, it's a great Movie Moment that can be Quoted. I have so much pointless dialogue and I love it--I could have told the entire point of the fic in three paragraphs with one paranoid character, but I like dialogue. I like writing it and I've been told that I am good at it.
You know what I should be doing right now? I should be writing a research paper that is due either today or Wednesday, I don't know which because the handout that we got for the assignment is from last year when October 17th was on a Wednesday. So I don't know.
Also: This wacked-out little fantasy is eerily close to the writers screaming at me inside my head. Except in my case it's William Sleator. Has anyone read "The Green Futures of Tycho"? I think it's out of print, but it is a freaking fantastic YA book. It involves a teenage boy who feels underappreciated by his family and keeps going back and forth in time in order to make his family better. Except that in the process, he messes up his own future to the point that he's channeling some kind of freaky Lovecraftian alien spirit. This book was written in 1981 and there are some scenes that I swear the Bobs stole (dress up as an alien! Scare the shit out of your relatives!). This, people, is the book that made me love time travel. That and "Strange Attractors", which involves a good and evil version of a scientist and his daughter and a boy who gets caught up in the middle of a plot between their struggle. Both of these books want me to cross them over with "Back to the Future", which is a problem because I already have enough ideas for fics that I'm never going to do, including a Marty/Marty-A one that I swear I'm going to start on any day now just as soon as I get this research paper done.
ETA: "Snow Crash." Y.T. and Marty. Two sk8er kids. Hill Valley: Last of the indie burbclaves! I'm going to make an icon about that. I <3 CROSSOVERS!!!!!
Venture Bros. tonight was so freaking close to home. Nerds playing D&D in college. Yes. Yesyesyesyes. Me. I'm sorry, I'm getting incoherent again. And you know what else?
Jim Cross! Jim Cross is awesome. Jim Cross has tattoos that come to life. That is the most awesomest badass thing I've ever heard, I swear. I'm a Jim Cross fangirl. Don't bother googling him; he exists mostly in Casey's head.
Also, I've got an idea for a M*A*S*H fanfic. Involving time travel. And nuclear war in 2004 with North Korea. And Dick Cheney. Yes. Hahahahahahaha.
It's got a shitload of dialogue. Dialogue, dialogue, dialogue, I love it. Just dialogue for the sake of dialogue. Nobody does that anymore, did you ever notice? It's all infodumping or angsting or dirty talk (ooooh!). That's the difference between the hacks and the great ones. Like Quentin Tarantino. How does talking about cheeseburgers advance the plot? What purpose does it serve? Who gives a shit, it's a great Movie Moment that can be Quoted. I have so much pointless dialogue and I love it--I could have told the entire point of the fic in three paragraphs with one paranoid character, but I like dialogue. I like writing it and I've been told that I am good at it.
You know what I should be doing right now? I should be writing a research paper that is due either today or Wednesday, I don't know which because the handout that we got for the assignment is from last year when October 17th was on a Wednesday. So I don't know.
Also: This wacked-out little fantasy is eerily close to the writers screaming at me inside my head. Except in my case it's William Sleator. Has anyone read "The Green Futures of Tycho"? I think it's out of print, but it is a freaking fantastic YA book. It involves a teenage boy who feels underappreciated by his family and keeps going back and forth in time in order to make his family better. Except that in the process, he messes up his own future to the point that he's channeling some kind of freaky Lovecraftian alien spirit. This book was written in 1981 and there are some scenes that I swear the Bobs stole (dress up as an alien! Scare the shit out of your relatives!). This, people, is the book that made me love time travel. That and "Strange Attractors", which involves a good and evil version of a scientist and his daughter and a boy who gets caught up in the middle of a plot between their struggle. Both of these books want me to cross them over with "Back to the Future", which is a problem because I already have enough ideas for fics that I'm never going to do, including a Marty/Marty-A one that I swear I'm going to start on any day now just as soon as I get this research paper done.
ETA: "Snow Crash." Y.T. and Marty. Two sk8er kids. Hill Valley: Last of the indie burbclaves! I'm going to make an icon about that. I <3 CROSSOVERS!!!!!
Venture Bros. tonight was so freaking close to home. Nerds playing D&D in college. Yes. Yesyesyesyes. Me. I'm sorry, I'm getting incoherent again. And you know what else?
Jim Cross! Jim Cross is awesome. Jim Cross has tattoos that come to life. That is the most awesomest badass thing I've ever heard, I swear. I'm a Jim Cross fangirl. Don't bother googling him; he exists mostly in Casey's head.
Also, I've got an idea for a M*A*S*H fanfic. Involving time travel. And nuclear war in 2004 with North Korea. And Dick Cheney. Yes. Hahahahahahaha.
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Date: 2004-10-18 03:58 pm (UTC)And, oh! Venture Brothers. Fun show. I wish they'd shown the Monarch in college though... he's so fun.
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Date: 2004-10-18 05:14 pm (UTC)