Comments | scoradh: a fool and a libertine

scoradh

a fool and a libertine

Jul 25, 2020 21:20

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S'up, my name's Rachel, I'm a twenty-two three four! FIVE (ugh how did I get so old) six HELLO LATE TWENTIES year old medical student DOCTOR, YO. You may offer me your congratulations on having reached this, the highest pinnacle of nerditude. My defining characteristics are a disgusting love of pink (it's stealth ninja, okay - I have a theory. A ( Read more... )

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insipid_paragon July 26 2008, 00:37:12 UTC

You wrote an Entourage fic! And I have only JUST finished watching that show and was having a fic craving, and there you go satisfying it just like that. Isn't that tidy?

scoradh July 26 2008, 17:44:28 UTC

It would be if that fic was any good, which it sadly isn't. Regardless! SPENCER APPROVES. :DDD

(i raise you spencer/ryan)

frantic_mice July 26 2008, 03:15:25 UTC

not sure you'd want to Friend me because all I do in my journal is squeesquee about HP but I want to friend you because of the interesting and the levels of hate directed at poor little books and the talk of bandom which Idunevenknow. Bandom, what? Like asking me about the carburator or the thingy thinger on the car VROOM VROOM.

I friended you because I read half of one of your fics and LOVED IT but then said NO I WILL NOT READ THE REST because I heard the words "suicide" and "dismal" and "woe." but I'd LOVED the first half with like with serious amounts of love, so disregarded the kind advice of a random passerby and read to the end, disliked the ending with the intensity of a very intense thing and will in the future read all of your fics but avoid the endings and just make up my own, which will suck but in a NOT RIP THE HEART OUT kind of way. If I can. Sometimes my curious streak gets the better of me and then mayhem and DOOM and CRASH of the fanfic on the meta-fic ending tree. all sorts of badstuff.
hi.

scoradh July 26 2008, 17:47:26 UTC

the levels of hate directed at poor little books

Poor little books my ass! The one thing they all have in common is huge amounts of adulation from the literary world. I am a lone warrior fighting against this! I am a LEAF IN THE WIND, dude.

Ha, is it bad that I had to think which fic that was? But chill, plenty of my stories have happy endings. Most of them do, actually. (Just maybe not the Harry/Draco?)

Welcome, anyway. :D

frantic_mice July 26 2008, 21:32:42 UTC

Hmm, adulation? I guess it's not Vonnegut's hot fudge sunday-full armor thing then, is it? More like give me your Sacred Cows NOMNOMNOM hamburgerz!

Yeah, don't mind sad endings as long as IMO the sad wasn't PASTID ON YAY! but okey dokey. I'll just stick to the un-H/D ones. THANKS FOR THE WELCOMES! :)))))

emo_spicy July 26 2008, 03:36:07 UTC

i ruv yo fics. and continue to friend me please.

scoradh July 26 2008, 17:48:50 UTC

EVEN MY BANDOM ONES OF MORAL-LESSNESS?

emo_spicy July 26 2008, 22:28:54 UTC

especially those.

scoradh July 26 2008, 23:12:39 UTC

SWEEEEEEEET.

pir8fancier July 26 2008, 03:46:07 UTC

I'm commenting on THIS HERE POST!

scoradh July 26 2008, 17:50:55 UTC

HA, that ship has sailed, me love.

But OT, I read Atonement! Now I really want to know your take on it. (Probably, preferably, without reading my notes on same, because ... let's just say we didn't gel, me and that book.)

pir8fancier July 26 2008, 18:06:42 UTC

I saw your comments on Atonement, and all I can say is that I understand your objections, but I adore that sort of writing. This is one of those cases where a style clicks or it doesn't. I liked Atonement, but I adored Saturday, and I also adored On Chesil Beach for the opposite reason. In Saturday, he takes one day and makes it into a 150,000 word novel. In On Chesil Beach, he takes fifty years and parses it down to 60,000 words. I like his style. I like how he takes chances. Could parts of Saturday have been cut? Yes. He has a fascination with the mechanics of things and tends to overwhelm the reader with its minutia. Except that it fits into the character's mindset so well. And I think he's one of the few authors who really is NOT afraid to take chances with his characters. You could call it melodramatic, I look at it as not pandering to the romantic in all of us (something I'm always guilty of). When you play god (which is what writing is), I think there is this tendency to provide the reader with the "happy," as much for yourself ( ... )

scoradh July 26 2008, 19:25:41 UTC

He has a fascination with the mechanics of things and tends to overwhelm the reader with its minutia.

He totally does. Only, I've seen it done better by Woolf. There's two problems for me with this style, the biggest and most obvious being that I hate being overwhelmed with minutia, and the second being that even done well it's tiresome. And I don't think he does it well. The reason I don't like it in the first place is because it's too easy to slip into this analysis of every second thought, going off into tangents. I've written like this. You end up doubling back, repeating yourself, contradicting yourself. It would take a million years of editing to ensure that it's consistent, and these books haven't had one minute, apparently. It's never coherent enough for me. Of course, coherency isn't a prerequisite - I just think it should be, because it's difficult.

And I think he's one of the few authors who really is NOT afraid to take chances with his charactersI really didn't see that. The 'non-happy' part is a common trait among this ( ... )

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scoradh July 26 2008, 17:52:05 UTC

Sure thing babe!