On fanfiction.

Well, the Les Mis section of fanfiction.net has actually been interesting lately... usually it's the same old mediocre stuff by people with decent ideas who aren't very adept at storytelling. But of late there's been an influx of Mary Sues, unfunny sugar-high parody fic, Eponine death poetry(!), and other flat-out badfic that I thought had been stamped out of the fandom years ago by a crack squad of humorless Brick-picking reviewers--counterbalanced by a spate of delightfully nerdy, offbeat bookfic. It's been so damn long since a piece of fanfiction actually made me sit there squeeing.

I should wriiiite. But I'm so close to being done with the website update that it seems silly to run off and do something else.

That, and I'm terrified of being one of those people with the good ideas who couldn't sit down and pull a crackling good tale out of them if my life depended on it. I almost feel like I was a better writer when I was twelve--when I was yoinking my style off professional authors instead of fanfiction. I'm sick of writing drabbles and plotless vignettes and character studies; I want to tell a story, and I feel like I couldn't do it if I tried.

On fanfiction.

Well, the Les Mis section of fanfiction.net has actually been interesting lately... usually it's the same old mediocre stuff by people with decent ideas who aren't very adept at storytelling. But of late there's been an influx of Mary Sues, unfunny sugar-high parody fic, Eponine death poetry(!), and other flat-out badfic that I thought had been stamped out of the fandom years ago by a crack squad of humorless Brick-picking reviewers--counterbalanced by a spate of delightfully nerdy, offbeat bookfic. It's been so damn long since a piece of fanfiction actually made me sit there squeeing.

I should wriiiite. But I'm so close to being done with the website update that it seems silly to run off and do something else.

That, and I'm terrified of being one of those people with the good ideas who couldn't sit down and pull a crackling good tale out of them if my life depended on it. I almost feel like I was a better writer when I was twelve--when I was yoinking my style off professional authors instead of fanfiction. I'm sick of writing drabbles and plotless vignettes and character studies; I want to tell a story, and I feel like I couldn't do it if I tried.