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[indri]

My life is extremely hectic at the moment and I'm still reviewing the comments that people made on Descent. Two points raised concerned the emotionally distancing effect of the voice and tone used in the piece, and the lack of drama in the fight scenes.

So I'd be very grateful if people on my Flist would link to stories (fanfic or commercial fic) which

are extremely emotionally affecting (especially if it's not shipperfic), and/or

have exciting fight scenes.

I'll study them and see how I can improve.

My thanks again to everyone who took part in the Concritathon and for peasant_ for running it.

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[indri]

Carlos, for all his ornateness of speech, is very circumspect about his feelings

You know, that hadn't occurred to me at all, so thank you very much for that observation. Looks like I can't manage "gushy" even when I try.

He talks about passion, but not about how passion feels

See, I'm not sure I know how it feels. Usually emotions hit me almost in retrospect: I'm doing this so I must have feel like this. So that follows through in my writing.

just so long as you don't decide to try writing crap!fic

No fear there :)

There are days when I wish I could learn to write immensly popular shipperfic which would garner me infinite feedback and many awards. (Which is not crap!fic but another very specialised skill. There are shipperfic writers whom I very much admire.) But I think if I tried it would sound like a dreadful parody.

you wouldn't suggest to Chekhov or Ishiguro that they might try their hand at something a little more gushy

Well no, but only because they already make me burst into tears, on cue, every time...