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kadollan

NaNoWriMo and a Meme

Nov 05, 2012 21:59

I've got just shy of 9,000 words on my NaNo and I'm pretty happy with what I've written so far. I thought I was going to write the HP Shakespearean Romp, but what I seem to actually be doing is working on Avengers short stories.

I'm not sure how that happened, but I just wrote 1600 words of Bucky POV stuff set during Captain America: The First ( Read more... )

fic, writing, nanowrimo, avengers, meme

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lar_laughs November 6 2012, 04:58:25 UTC

DVD Commentary 1/2 kadollan November 6 2012, 21:27:53 UTC

Harry picked the flowers up before they got crushed and set about trying to find a place to put them down. Now that he looked at the room, he could see that it really was in terrible shape. The table was overrun with copies of the Prophet, bills, an owl from Ron's mum, and last night's curry take-away.

I was trying to make this sound British. "mum" and "curry take-away" were meant to add ambience. This apartment was also heavily influenced by an apartment I shared with a husband, a baby, and two room-mates. We were all of us slobs.

"Hermione, I'm-"

"Ron, don't you dare say you're sorry! I swear you two make me crazy! I'm tired of feeling like I'm Wendy living with the Lost Boys. Honestly!"

I love the idea that Harry and Hermione have a shared childhood identity (being raised as muggles) that Ron just doesn't have. Rowling doesn't touch on it much, but Harry and Hermione would have plenty of cultural references that Ron just wouldn't get. Also - in the apartment that theirs is based off of, I used to refer to myself as ( ... )

Re: DVD Commentary 1/2 lar_laughs November 7 2012, 03:51:54 UTC

Cubby! *chortles* Of course, he's Cubby!

I do love the Wendy/Peter/Lost Boys connection here because I think the whole lot of the kids who fought in the war probably have some sort of Lost Boys connection with each other. Not that they don't want to grow up but they also had their childhoods sort of ruined and I can see them clinging, in some ways, to being children. And do we ever really grow up? I mean, really?

Re: DVD Commentary 1/2 kadollan November 8 2012, 20:32:37 UTC

Oh, I love this. I don't think I'd analyzed it quite to that level as I was writing it -- but you are absolutely right.

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cybermathwitch November 11 2012, 17:19:08 UTC

I'm totally cheating, but I want commentary for "It's Going to Be Ok". :D Puhhhleeeeease!

DVD Commentary IGTBO 1/4 kadollan November 11 2012, 21:56:55 UTC

I wrote this for jessofthebugs a few months ago when she was having a rough day. She’d emailed cybermathwitch and I and said something like, “Guys, I need some fic that’s sweet and is reassuring and so that I know that it is going to be okay.” (Or something like that.)* She was pregnant and about to move, and working on her graduate thesis, and damn. Girlfriend had some stress, okay?

So, with the prompt “It’s going to be okay” in my head, I left work and started the thirty minute drive home. By the time I got there I had enough to start writing, and then cybermathwitch did some awesome in-line beta for me. (Thank you dear!)

*I’m talking to Koren as I write this and she says she didn’t get that email, and that Jess just asked me for the prompt. I don’t even know, that was back in June and I’ve slept since then.

***

"It's going to be okay." Pepper announced, as she prepared tea with precise, economical movements.

I tend to start fics with dialogue -- I’m not sure why, unless it is because dialogue is the bit that I like the best (maybe I should try script frenzy ( ... )

DVD Commentary IGTBO 2/4 kadollan November 11 2012, 21:59:27 UTC

"We always do this when they go out, if we can," Jane explained. "It's easier when we're together."

He nodded. It made sense of course -- he hadn't really spared a thought for what it must be like for them to wait at home every time the Avengers assembled.

I kind of see Pepper and Jane (and Darcy, though she isn’t dating any of them in canon) and Betty too -- though I hadn’t yet seen The Hulk when I’d written this, so I didn’t have any Betty feels at the time -- as something akin to military spouses. They have to watch their friends, loved ones and partners go out and put themselves in harm’s way and there is nothing that they can do but wait and pray and not make it harder for them by displaying the wrong kinds of emotional responses.

Once the tea was poured, he pulled out his flask (always prepared, he should have been a fucking Boy Scout) and added a healthy dollop of Irish. Darcy perked up and nudged her cup forward hopefully. He obliged her with a grin.

Booze makes tea and cookie time more better-er.Jane gave Darcy a dark ( ... )

DVD Commentary IGTBO 3/4 kadollan November 11 2012, 22:00:55 UTC

"So, ah, what do you guys normally do now? What's next?" They seemed to have this down to a science.

"Well, next we reassure one another again that everything will be fine," Jane answered.

Pepper nodded. “It is going to be okay,” she said again.

Saying “it’s going to be okay” is part of the ritual. They know damn good and well what they are doing, and they are doing it deliberately.

"Followed by a healthy round of bitching about Thor and Tony," Darcy added helpfully .

Oh Darcy, let me love you.

"Hey-" "We don't, really-"

Dammit Darcy, that bitching was for GIRLS ONLY. NO BOYS ALLOWED.

He held his hands up, "No judgment here ladies. I bitch about them all the time too. And I'm not dating them."

Pepper and Jane are torn between “well, that’s okay then” and “HEY!” because nobody gets to bitch about Tony and Thor but them.

Pepper and Jane were still giving a smug Darcy dark looks.

I’m not quite sure why Darcy was being such a snot in this. I really like Darcy as a character, and am writing her in something else right now ( ... )

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