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[bedlamsbard]

I feel I should say that the end of last night's episode of Numb3rs has made me start writing another CSI:NY AU. This is fun!

...in a, uh, depressing sort of way. Everything's tilted a few degrees to the left.

Okay, but I mean, seriously? That was a cop. That was the way to pay tribute to a dead friend. I mean, most of the ep was just okay, but the end? Oh God. Except for Don getting lucky, but oh, God. That is it. Jesus Christ.

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[limmenel.livejournal.com]

And I hit [enter] before I finished that, oops!

There's just not enough good novel-length fic in the CSI universe, especially in Miami and NY.

I used to write a lot more fic, and sorta stopped writing for a while, though I'm starting to get back into it now. Why don't you usually write a lot of fic?

Oh, I'm so not going to have time to write that V-Day AU with Danny as a chem grad student TA and Flack as a sullenly returning to New York math major.

Arg, you tease ;D

I write a lot of original work, novels and short stories, but I enjoy working with fic so much sometimes.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I will admit that I almost never read CSI:NY fic. I read stellaluna_; that's it. Which is something that's weird about me.

It's only really recently that I started being able to write short pieces of fic; usually I think in novel arcs (like the bardverse), and I don't have the energy or the time to commit to writing something like that if it's fic. At this point in my career I'd really rather concentrate on original fic for various reasons, one of which is that I don't really like what's going on in the CSI:NY verse right now. As for non-CSI:NY fic, it's one of those -- well, I do think in novel arcs, and I actually would really like to write a "season three" for Dark Angel, but it's not going to happen because I don't have the time or the energy. And I always feel like someone else knows the characters better, or just...I write a lot of AU, so it's relatively easy to transpose into originals (see: spaceforce).

Arg, you tease ;D

I know. I'm evil. I don't know enough about college to write it, anyway.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

I'm a giant fic ho, I'll admit it. I adore reading fic, plain and simple. I like original stuff more, mind you, but fic has a totally different purpose behind it, which is why I like it so much.

I always want to write longer stuff, but I usually lose interest in whatever I'm writing after a couple of days, so it's usually best for me to write a 5k word fic in a day or two, or something shorter. I do the NaNoWriMo for the same reason (www.nanowrimo.org).

Hey, hey, I KNOW ABOUT COLLEGE. *hint hint?*

:)

Yeah, it's always nice when you can write fic and then shift it over to OC if you decide to.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

The interesting thing is that with a lot of fic, I don't know the original canon too well, and with originals, I tend to read series, so they kind of blur together in my head. Er, yes, I'm aware I probably have issues.

I do NaNo! This year was my fourth one, I think -- I wrote my original, Dangerous Heroes, which I need to make less of a rip-off of the fic I'd like to write.

Er. But I don't know what I need to know!

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

I try not to read fic unless I know the canon that it's based on well enough to understand the entire thing.

I adore NaNo... I'm the ML here in Ottawa. Someday, I'll get something good enough to publish out of it, I hope.

I was kidding... you have school and stuff to focus on :D.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

So I'm just weird then. *nods* I have actually read whole fandoms where I've never seen the source material at all (Buffy). Yay for the Internet! Usually I just doublecheck the characters, enough of the canon to figure out what's happening -- the basics of what you need to know.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

If a fic is going to be good enough to make me want to read it without knowing the canon behind it, I'll download some of the eps to watch, so I can understand :)