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

Re: Choose-Your-Own-Adventure

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think you're right on the use of second person - when I see it written as "You're walking down the street, you see a black cat cross your path and you begin to feel uneasy. . ." it's just . . .yuck. Second person done that way almost feels like a snuff fic.

I loved Choose-your-own-adventure and Which Way books when I was a kid - but that was more for the alternate options - I thought they were neat when I was 10 *g* DO they even publish those anymore, or is that a forgotten fad these days?

Re: Choose-Your-Own-Adventure

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

Ha. Good question about those books. I bet it's on the web -- you could totally do it with web pages.

This one site I know of has an "interactive" story where you read and choose options and if one of them isn't written, you get to write it.

I never cared for those books myself because they were always like 3 years below grade level and boring as far as language. When I was in fifth grade I was obsessed with Poe :>}