I can has groovy box

[hobgoblinn]

I came home to a super obscurely groovy surprise tonight. willowgreen sent me a box of stuff from her stash of "obscure grooviness." Wee Hob and I were both delighted, he even though he's been under the weather for a couple of days with an odd spring fever (with actual fever. He had to come home from school yesterday, and he came in today and mostly slept tonight, with brief stints of soup eating and a shower.)

Anyway, thanks to willowgreen for your generosity. Now I have to come up with something equally groovy for snarkysneak.

But at the moment, bedtime I think. For those of you staying up later, I highly recommend the next chapter in Malora's continuing epic, Never Say Remember. Her dialogue is perfect, understated but full of meaning, and damned funny when it needs to be. She is the poster child for why people should finish a draft before posting anything-- this story is so tightly crafted and beautifully done, so unlike mine. Don't get me wrong, mine has its moments. But it wanders a lot, and I am seeing, reading it to Wee Hob the past couple of nights, how much could and should be cut. Ah well. Information for next time.

Comments

[snarkysneak.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I hope Wee Hob feels better soon!

On fic writing, I think for some people having a draft complete is helpful. My partner in crime and I have problems even if we have a draft because we have all sorts of epiphanies as we are polishing and fanged plot bunnies of doom attack from the ether conspiring to change the story so radically that the draft is useless. That, however, is our writing style. That is the drawback of having two abstract thinkers working together. In any case, I love your story as it is. I haven't noticed it wandering too terribly badly (if at all IMHO). It is sometimes in those wanderings that you get some of the best character development and sometimes some of the best dialogue.

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know what you mean about stories changing radically from draft to final as new ideas present. Lost Boys did that, and it's a much better story for it. But you really have to have the groundwork in place before that works.

In this case, the parts posted up to now were drafted in some form beforehand and so have benefited from revision. From about this point on, not so much-- it's more working in bits of fragments I really liked into whatever story seems to be unfolding now.

Thanks for the kind words, though, and the kind wishes to wee hob, who is indeed better.