A Good Day

[catscradle]

Well, for a Monday today wasn't so bad. I feel better than I have for the past three weeks. I'm still slow on this eating thing - but I've not felt queasy at all today, so I'll take it.

We got our performance reviews today and I got all high marks with a few "above and beyonds" - so I'm very happy with that =) Here I thought I was going to get yelled out for screwing around with LJ at work ;) Anyway - looks good for a small merit raise in the coming year. Should just about cover the money I'll be putting into my retirement plan - woohoo!

In addition to our mega epic fic damoyre and I are tossing around, I'm trying to talk her into a Heero/Wufei fic. Of course, I'm not sure which character I should write, since neither come easy to me - maybe I should just get out of her way and let her do it ;) Seriously, the past few days I've been feeling very Wufei-ish. Watched Endless Waltz again and felt a sudden connection to him and all his frustrations with humanity. Makes me want to pick up a sword, storm Washington and cry out "And I will become evil itself to stop you!" Too bad I don't have a Gundam. . .

Here's a question: Writing fics in the second person. I've got to say, I find reading second person fics as enjoyable as chewing glass. I understand that people want to be experimental, but - well - I've never seen this method used successfully in fanfic. If anyone out there can explain why they use it and/or why they think it's effective, I'd like to hear it. Also, if you can leave a link to a fic you think uses the technique well. Thanks =)

Last on my random thoughts of the day - fanon. There seems to be three camps out there. Those that use fanon as their fic writing bible. Those that are so zealous against fanon that they wipe the canon out the characters and plot right along with it till everyone is OOC and plot resembles nothing from the series. And finally, those that mind their own writing and don't get caught up with what everyone else is doing. We need more people in the last camp.

Comments

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

a) Love the Beaker

b) Congrats on the job stuff!!

c) Never tried second person myself, but I did find one story which I thought used it well. jennyo's 40 Days of One Night Stands

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

Okay, I think you're right - this one did use it well. But I'm noticing a trend on when this style is well used - and it seems to be when there is a hard edge to the story - almost a Fight Club sense to it. But I'm also not convinced that it couldn't have been better written in first or third - second, when you come down to it, is a first person story told in the third person. But as second person stories go in fanfic, this is the best I've seen. =)