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Kiri ☂ ([personal profile] taotrooper) wrote2008-02-04 01:04 pm
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A break of that Kit-Kat bar

Feliz cumpleaños atrasado, [livejournal.com profile] sha_chan!


Also, my thread at the Feedback Meme.

1. Comment in the post with your username. (If you are not a writer, skip ahead to step 3.)

2. People will reply to your comment with positive feedback about your fic. It could just be one of your fics, it could be all of your fics. Whatever they feel like feedbacking.

3. You go through the other comments and leave feedback for other people.

4. Everyone basks in the glow of fandom love.

I wish I had the time to comment on other people's, and that 36 questions meme floating around, but I'm so tied up until next Monday... ;_;

ETA: also this one.

1.) What is your overall impression of my writing?
2.) Is there something you think I do well?
3.) What do you think I could improve on?
4.) Which of my fics did you like best, and why?
5.) What would you like to see me write more of? (ship/genre/whatever)

[identity profile] laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com 2008-02-04 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
1.) It's funny and quirky, and it shows well your interpretation of the canon without being infodump-y.

2.) You get the characters so right, especially their voices. It shows that you put a lot of thought into characterization.

3.) I think some of your fics need a bit more description/action apart from the dialogue.

4.) Do I have to choose just one? D: Right now my favourite is the one when Yue explains Touya all about the Cards and Clow gets compared to a starficsh.

5.) Howl's Moving Castle! I love your Howl/Sophie (especially your Sophie) and I'd love to see more.
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2008-02-04 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Damn, because I had to drop my H/S claim at [livejournal.com profile] 30vicios recently; it was too much pressure D: But yeah, I should try to do some drabbles of them for fun, even though all the goodfic for the ship I've seen so far intimidates me.

I wonder if there's a way to practice description and action. The thing about my plotbunnies is they're mostly people talking to each other or character introspection, so they're no good for pushing imagery unto them. Also, I'm fearing to go purple-prosey when describing stuff, or sounding redundant because we all know how the characters look like. Actions, though, I've never been able to know how to write them...
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[identity profile] laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com 2008-02-04 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Stuff like [livejournal.com profile] 30vicios can be very inspiring or very depressing depending the time/mood/real life/etc. But it'd be awesome if you wrote a one-shot or something once in a while. \o/

The only way that worked for me was practicing. And I still think some of my fics need more setting because they sound like "A and B talking inside of a bubble". One suggestion I got about how not to go into purple prose (and that worked for me) was to write a lot of description and then take out the purple later, when the fic was finished and I was editing it. For many people it's easier to do it that way than trying to add description/actions during the editing.

But yeah, not all fics need it, anyway. Introspection can work really well without it.

[identity profile] sha-chan.livejournal.com 2008-02-04 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
¡GRACIAS! ♥

Y espero que te haya ido bien en ese examen(?) que tenias hoy!!! Suerte con las clases!!!
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2008-02-04 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
...No es hoy, es pasado ^^U Y otro el lunes.

[identity profile] sha-chan.livejournal.com 2008-02-05 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Oops ^^;; Lo siento.. pero entonces, aun queda tiempo para seguir estudiando!! Dale duro!!! x33 Exitos!!!!!
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[personal profile] solesakuma 2008-02-04 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
1.) It's both fun and funny and very... meta. I like meta.
2.) Humour!!! I actually LOL with some of your fics.
3.) Hmmmmm... more action and description, as laurus said.
4.) Las Cartas Sobre La Mesa, because it's exactly the kind of Touya/Yue I like and there's very little of it. And I lurved Button Smashin too.
5.) Maybe... more plot-ish fics? I'm intrigued to see you do that.
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2008-02-04 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad you liked those two! The Duklyon one was an experience, not knowing if it was IC/good enough for the recipient, but amusing. The Touya/Yue was fun as well.

...I am writing some plot-ish fics, but it's either for the Okami fandom or um, it's an Eriol/Kaho so...
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[personal profile] solesakuma 2008-02-04 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I actually don't dislike the pairing (but no smut...). I really like Kaho, even if it took me time to grown used to her and so, she balances Eriol.
And I'll give them a try if you write them. XP
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[identity profile] rainmage.livejournal.com 2008-02-04 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, there are three chapters posted already. I just haven't written anything from one year and so ago. And since it's from Kaho's POV, maybe it won't be that bad... maybe.
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[personal profile] solesakuma 2008-02-04 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
OK! I'll read it when my brain is actually functioning and when 'OMG! I have a wedding in five days!' crazyness calms down.