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May. 23rd, 2013 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotessememe from, like, everybody:
I currently have 75 works at AO3. Pick a number between 1 and 75 and I'll tell you three things I currently like about that story.
eta: so that this entry contains more than a meme - the more I hear about the Amazon Kindle Worlds mess, the more it reminds me of what I've read about the early days of the Pocket Books Star Trek tie-in novels, which I gather fans were initially excited about as a way to professionalize/monetize but later pretty much abandoned once the level of creative bankruptcy necessary for participation became clear. Plus ca change, neh?
I currently have 75 works at AO3. Pick a number between 1 and 75 and I'll tell you three things I currently like about that story.
eta: so that this entry contains more than a meme - the more I hear about the Amazon Kindle Worlds mess, the more it reminds me of what I've read about the early days of the Pocket Books Star Trek tie-in novels, which I gather fans were initially excited about as a way to professionalize/monetize but later pretty much abandoned once the level of creative bankruptcy necessary for participation became clear. Plus ca change, neh?
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Date: 2013-05-26 12:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-26 01:49 am (UTC)-I like the way I kept the power dynamics of the survivors' group loose and shifting, and kept them from settling back into any configuration of a nuclear or patriarchal family. The Baker is never going to hold much authority over Red, no matter how you slice it :)
-I like the babyfic aspect. I really enjoy writing this kind of babyfic, about the adults' experiences of infant chatter and baby things, and in a way I got to do it more purely here, because the baby-loving isn't contextualized as the apex of a ship.
-I like the abstraction of a lot of imagery. Fairy tales are traditionally a very psychologically flat form, and while I did psychological realism here I tried to balance that out with metaphoric flatness, so Cinderella's mouth tastes like babies and the Baker talks to Jack about love, trust, and biology. Really straight-up, but also both nondescript and summary. I think it's a cool effect.