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[fahye]

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I want to do a creative/meta meme but there is nothing going around, and it's not like I have that much fic to be asked about*. But ask me writing questions anyway?

*I had to remove that part, it is a dirty dirty lie where I am concerned.

'Writing questions' can mean pretty much anything you want it to mean, my sweets. I have a lot of work to do tonight and I'm going to need something to do in my breaks.

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[fahye.livejournal.com]

I don't think in terms of plot either, usually. Quickening Days is probably the ONLY fic of mine where the idea that kickstarted it was 'I want to try a Groundhog Day fic'. So the plot was obviously the first thing that needed to be hammered out. The only other long plotty thing I've ever written developed its plot by accident, and I made it up entirely as I went along. It was fun! But terrifying.

Seriously, 'So Great & Beautiful' just needs a sticker saying Here Are Fahye's Opinions About Narnia.

And thanks :) I love it when characters come along and you identify so strongly with one aspect of them that writing them becomes easy and joyful.

[lilith-lessfair.livejournal.com]

And who doesn't have opinions about Narnia? Good or bad or otherwise? I always found myself disconcerted by stories in which the characters fall into the rabbit hole and then return, having learned their lesson and become the better for it. And then they pretend that they hadn't been gone but the lesson is there to see in their behavior. I thought you hit the nail on the head that the Pevensies age (but don't fall in love or have sex) and then are made young again with their memories intact. How very, very odd that was.