Dude! I just wrote 396 words of totally spontaneous fic!

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In less than an hour and a half!

It's kinda crap, but hey, writing is writing, and writing is good. Even if it's crap. And spontaneous outbreaks of fic are particularly good.

It's LoM (unsurprisingly), and it doesn't look like fic. It looks kind of like a poem. Partly. Again. WTF is it with me and LoM and spontaneous eruptions of poetry!fic?

It also contains some standing around on roofs. That seems to be a staple of all my LoM fic lately.

Oh, and also, it's Sam/Annie-shippy, something I haven't really done before. Yay for new challenges!

It was initially meant for space_oddity_75, who's recently had a rough time, but as per usual, it turned depressing pretty soon, so I'm not sure it's the right thing to give away to someone who isn't feeling good in the first place. Also, as I already stated, at the moment it's still kind of crap. And kind of abstract. And kind of just-plain-weird. And possibly somewhat AU in its interpretation of the relationship, I dunno. And possibly really, really, really bad.

But I'm still thrilled.

Oh hell, here's an excerpt. I may hate this tomorrow, but who cares.

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Watching

his face, knotted with concentration,

suspicion,

obsession,

as he figures out riddles

that exist only for him,

figures out the world

that exists

only as a riddle to him. Your world,

and you just a piece of the puzzle.

What is your meaning?


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Gah. I can already see bits that are crap. See? This is why I don't do fast fic.

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Another thing...

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I don't know, maybe you will find this helpful - I know it's helping *me*: Somehow, I seem to have different standards for fanfic and pro writing. In fanfic, I tend to be most impressed by people who are capable of really striking turns of phrase. In pro writing, I like that, too, but I also honestly and deeply love a lot of writers who write in a much less 'visible', less striking way, whose style is a lot more 'normal'. When I realised that I became a lot more at peace with my own writing skills - because I think I'm perfectly capable of being a good writer of that second sort, even if I may never be one of the first sort.

So, basically - maybe we shouldn't try to compare ourselves to a type of writer we can't be, and try instead to be a good writer of the kind we *can* be. Because there are many different kinds of good writing.