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[catslash]

Oh, hey! A meme. I don't do these often, but this one caught my interest. Swiped from caruso, whose new SN I had to think about to remember even though I was JUST looking at the entry:

Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you something I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing it that didn't make it onto the page.

Everything fic-related on my journal is under the fic tag. My memories also have a couple older things that only got posted to comms or what-have-you, though I warn you that the older a fic, the less likely I am to remember writing it. You can ask about prompt challenges or whatever, too - if it's a bit of fic, and I wrote it, it's eligible.

Comments

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Excellent meme, which I am definitely stealing.

Torchwood/Jeeves crossover. (http://catslash.livejournal.com/384487.html#cutid1)

[catslash.livejournal.com]

I could definitely never write from Bertie's perspective. Never in a trillion years. His voice and my style do not match at all. So instead, I was pondering this potential crossover from Jack's point of view, and started thinking about how Bertie would look to a total outsider, who not only didn't know him but didn't have the perspective of being part of that canon. So I found out that, when given a chance and an interested audience, he's a storyteller. There's a reason he wrote all those books!

(Also, Jack likes being told stories. I imagine it's a nice change from being the one doing the telling.)

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the insight. I wrote a wank!fic in Bertie's voice for mmom two years ago and I have a megafic (over 10,000 words) out to beta that I did in Jeeve's voice even though MOST of canon is in Bertie's. I think it's the hardest fandom to write just because the language is so specific and so hard and if you do it WRONG it really stinks up the room.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

YES. Bertie is terrifyingly easy to get wrong. You need a thorough grasp of the slang, and to handle Bertie's narrative with a delicate touch to straddle the fine line between too exaggerated and too flat. Eep. I'll stick with writing Jeeves (or silly crossovers) any day of the week, thanks.