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Cold Hands
Dec. 1st, 2010 01:13 amI just got a review notice on something I wrote a billion years ago. New movie out, new fans reading old old old fanfiction. I suppose that's how it works.
But I didn't recognize the title of the fic, so I went to see what it was. And I didn't recognize the first few paragraphs either. So I read it.
It's clearly mine, I can tell I wrote it, I can see my own tricks, but I have no memory of it at all. So I read my own fic not knowing what the heck was going to happen. Which was an interesting experience. Probably helpful, I think I use the same tricks now. As a writer I clearly can't walk in a straight line to save my life. I'm trying to do better in this new fandom, actually keep to a linear timeline instead of jumping all over the place.
With a few modifications it would probably work just as well as a Sherlock fic, sad to say. I guess in the end we all have a single story to tell (or, say, a single set of archetypal characters we return to), and we just find ways to keep telling that story over and over.
That's okay; lots of stories get told over and over in different ways. I accept that. Still. Not an experience I expected to have!
But I didn't recognize the title of the fic, so I went to see what it was. And I didn't recognize the first few paragraphs either. So I read it.
It's clearly mine, I can tell I wrote it, I can see my own tricks, but I have no memory of it at all. So I read my own fic not knowing what the heck was going to happen. Which was an interesting experience. Probably helpful, I think I use the same tricks now. As a writer I clearly can't walk in a straight line to save my life. I'm trying to do better in this new fandom, actually keep to a linear timeline instead of jumping all over the place.
With a few modifications it would probably work just as well as a Sherlock fic, sad to say. I guess in the end we all have a single story to tell (or, say, a single set of archetypal characters we return to), and we just find ways to keep telling that story over and over.
That's okay; lots of stories get told over and over in different ways. I accept that. Still. Not an experience I expected to have!
