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nineveh_ukFanfiction doesn’t have to be practice for ‘professional’ writing in order to be of worth. On the other hand, thinking of it as such can help justify having spent the evening writing 1200 words of Hilary/Bunter when you really ought to be doing something else.
It is not in fact easier to write badfic, or even spoof-fic, than it is to try to produce something good. It is easier to write short excerpts of almost anything. No doubt if I tried to sustain badfic over a thousand words that would present its own challenges. Fantasy!Bunter is at least proving not too grim so far. Mind you, he still has most of his clothes on.
I have not been managing to write the Wimsey/Potterverse crossover, but I have at least been thinking about it and it is developing reasonably well. I now have the “they meet at a party” scene so beloved of Potterfic (not least me. The percentage of my Potterfic involving parties is embarrassingly high), and a bit of jokey RPF has turned into plot. It is always pleasing when a random idea becomes thematic. I still need to work on the purpose of the Corsican bandits, though.
It is not in fact easier to write badfic, or even spoof-fic, than it is to try to produce something good. It is easier to write short excerpts of almost anything. No doubt if I tried to sustain badfic over a thousand words that would present its own challenges. Fantasy!Bunter is at least proving not too grim so far. Mind you, he still has most of his clothes on.
I have not been managing to write the Wimsey/Potterverse crossover, but I have at least been thinking about it and it is developing reasonably well. I now have the “they meet at a party” scene so beloved of Potterfic (not least me. The percentage of my Potterfic involving parties is embarrassingly high), and a bit of jokey RPF has turned into plot. It is always pleasing when a random idea becomes thematic. I still need to work on the purpose of the Corsican bandits, though.
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Date: 2011-01-27 01:36 pm (UTC)My complete ignorance about what is going to happen in S2 of Downton Abbey has not stopped me from speculating about High Life Above and Below Stairs involving LPW and Bunter Apres-Guerre.
ION, I have acquired the Other Source I needed for That Fic I'm Dropping Hints About.
cheers everyone else on
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Date: 2011-01-27 04:48 pm (UTC)WWI does have a habit of doing that. But I doubt the scriptwriters think we want a series based around the elderly and infirm. Perhaps the setting will move to a foreign field and there will be lots of class barrier defying bonding in the trenches... And all the women will turn into Vera Brittain and go and be nurses (but that has rather been done before).
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Date: 2011-01-27 03:16 pm (UTC)You mean the ones where the belt is well above the navel?
Perhaps he could be standing tummy-deep in blue mediterranean water at the time...
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Date: 2011-01-27 04:17 pm (UTC)Well, yes, but still below the nipples.
I am not sure what he will be doing. Possibly walking up the beach in the manner of the subject of "You're So Vain", beds of water dropping from his tousled hair to slide down his manly chest. I feel that the inadvertant discovery of him skinny-dipping ought to be reserved for Harriet, for maximum embarrassment potential.
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Date: 2011-01-27 05:32 pm (UTC)This raises a very important issue, which I feel needs to be cleared up before I can allow my imagination to proceed any further - this tousled hair, is it on his chest, or is it only Charles who has a rug there?
I feel that the inadvertant discovery of him skinny-dipping ought to be reserved for Harriet, for maximum embarrassment potential.
I can only concur. And having made this inadvertent discovery, perhaps she is then able to confirm that Hilary's description is only slightly exaggerated.
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Date: 2011-01-27 06:45 pm (UTC)This particularly tousled hair is on his head, being thus distinguished from it's usually neatly brilliantined quality. As for his chest, I think that Bunter's will be moderately hairy, being more obviously symbolically masculine than Peter's, but less animal than gorilla-rugged Charles.
perhaps she is then able to confirm that Hilary's description is only slightly exaggerated
I was going to say that you'd think Peter would have picked this information up in 20 years, but the handing of the towel to the chap in the bath is only a one-way service.
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Date: 2011-01-28 04:45 am (UTC)Fine. I can cope with that. I don't mind Charles looking like a gorilla because I never fancied him anyway.
the handing of the towel to the chap in the bath is only a one-way service.
Ditto scrubbing under pumps. I'm sure there was a fair amount of non-hierarchical widdling in the trenches, giving plenty of opportunity for a noticing man to notice things ("will the neighbours say/'He was a man who used to notice such things'?"), but that was more than twenty years ago and Peter may have doubted that his memory was still accurate.
Hail, Blithe Spirit, Bird Thou Never Wert
Date: 2011-01-28 01:59 pm (UTC)Yes, but anybody named Charlie Parker can improvise...
bada-bing!
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Date: 2011-01-28 03:58 pm (UTC)Re: cheers everyone else on
Date: 2011-01-28 03:15 pm (UTC)Or perhaps he trained himself out of that specific noticing at school very quickly after the first time he got his head flushed in the bogs.
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Date: 2011-01-27 03:02 pm (UTC)Definitely not! But it is probably easier to write him being upright and fully-dressed in a garden than his fantasy persona initiating the young heroine into the Art of Lurve.
A Downton Abbey crossover - fantastic! I expect S2 to bear about the same resemblance to reality as S1, so I am sure you can do anything you like to bring us Bunter and LPW.
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Date: 2011-01-27 03:05 pm (UTC)Hmm. The legal problems should be even worse in S2, so perhaps Sir Impey and Murbles can also drop in.
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Date: 2011-01-27 06:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-27 08:29 pm (UTC)You'll Find Us All, Doing the Lambeth Wand. Oi!
Date: 2011-01-27 09:06 pm (UTC)and almost as upset if it's Kipps or Bill Snibson (Me and My Girl).
The Dursleys will be JOLLY upset if it's Harry.