This is a true story, a little snippet from my life once upon a time. The dialogue has been altered, as this took place over ten years ago and I am not a stenographer, and the names have been changed.
Reflections below the cut on writing in a fandom in which a) tumblr is the main platform and how that's fascinating but something I'm possibly too damn old for, and b) the giddiness of playing with source material that is grassroots of a sort and not created/written by white males. Includes some spoilers for the webcomic Check Please!
As I poked through an abandoned WIP pile and discovered stories that I wrote a few years ago and apparently thought were awful but now seem decent, plus fell down the rabbit-hole of a new fandom, I came to some musings. Hence the following ramblings: ( Read more... )