Thank you, this is extremely sweet of you to say! I get pretty self-conscious with the dialogue sect
Thank you, this is extremely sweet of you to say! I get pretty self-conscious with the dialogue sections because whereas I love writing dialogue a lot – it goes so quickly! I don’t have to throttle WordHippo to try to figure out what word is eluding my grasp! – I’m also worried about losing control over it and having it slide too far into the territory of facile banter. What if they just end up talking like an episode of Seinfeld, I think to myself. What if Connor’s in a great mood and gets carried away while greeting Gavin in the morning and just, like, gives him a hug, and then I accidentally write this:Nines: So then what did you do?Gavin: Nothing! I did nothing!Nines: You did nothing?Gavin: Absolutely nothing.Nines: You just stood there and you let it happen to you.Gavin: Yes, I can’t believe it! I just stood there!Nines: You stood there and he embraced you.Gavin: I was embraced by him!Nines: An embracing was done.Gavin: And I did nothing about it. I just stood there.So I’m very happy to hear that I have, thus far, managed to pull myself back somewhat from the brink of this sort of debacle. I’m doing my best! I hope you stick around for more!WHAT A JOY TO SEE YOU, AN ANON FROM INCEPTION FANDOM! I think about Volta as a story of two people who genuinely aggravate each other for reasons that are too deep-rooted to be simple misunderstanding, and that bit as the first display of Eames being aggravating in the particular festering way that he is in that fic. In every fandom, I find myself following something of the emotional course that the Linklater Before trilogy does; the early fics start out with “we’re perfect for each other” (Before Sunrise), then they move into “if we try hard enough, we can be perfect for each other” (Before Sunset), then they settle into “well actually we’re kind of shitty together but everything is shitty anyway, let’s make something together even if what we make together is complete shit” (Before Midnight). For a lot of reasons, Volta both is and reads like a late-fandom fic (in the sense that it was near the end of my time in the fandom, not that it was near the end of the fandom!)– it’s aggravating and unhappy in that way, but still, maybe because of all of that, I hope that whatever kernel of the future can be found in it can seem at least a little truthful. v v v -- source link
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