Two fic updates...

[hmpf]

(crossing my fingers it will work this time... first two attempts were botched, somehow...)

In between typing away like crazy to reach my 4000-words-by-Monday goal (1300 down, 2700 to go) I've been doing some revising. As a result of this, revised versions of 'Together' (a thousand thanks to ballyharnon for a kick-ass beta!) and 'Zusammen' – that's 'Together' in German – are available now:

Together
Zusammen

Also, 'Endure' has mutated - again. 'Endure' is a strange beast. After two years of hard labour I thought I was done with it – not because it was 'done' by any means, but because I gave up – and then suddenly, half a year later, it starts to change, almost without my aid. Sprouts a sentence here, an image there, loses a few sentences in other places. Punctuation marks move around as if of their own accord; spaces and paragraphs appear out of thin air. And then it starts to split itself into some twenty parts or so, forcing me to reformat the whole frelling thing! Really, that story has a life of its own.

And voilà, it's much, much better than it was! Check it out in all its new, twenty-or-so-parted glory

here.

Oh, yeah: for those not familiar with that story and its long history: it's Methos fic, set after the end of the Game in a far future; it's very, *very* weird, if I say so myself. This is probably the strangest thing I've ever written. It's all about madness, amnesia, and other cheery stuff like that, and it was a long struggle to find an expression for what I wanted to say that appeared adequate. I am oddly happy with the result of yesterday's revision. I really think the splitting up of it helped a lot to make it work (or at least make it work better than it did).

So... if you like experimental fanfic, give it a try. Chances are it will bore you to tears, but it is probably my favourite out of all the things I've written. (Yeah, and I do realise that by giving a story that almost everybody will find awful the title 'Endure', I'm practically asking for snarky comments. Bring'em on. I love my baby anyway, even if it's pretentious and boring. *g*)

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ERLM: Do I have to say it?
Hmpf: No, you don't.
ERLM: I'll say it anyway: get your lazy ass...
Hmpf: ... back to work. I *know*.

Comments

[carenejeans.livejournal.com]

Wow. I went and read Endure and really enjoyed it, if that's the word I want to use for something that's all about madness and amnesia... It sent shivers and chills crawling all over me! Whew.

The 20-part format is really good; I think it would have been harder to read as one long piece, or even in longer sections. The smaller sections have an episodic feel, with just enough suspense in each ending sentence to make me want to click the next section.

This is a great story. Yes, it *is* weird, but good weird!

Hey, thanks!

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

You can't imagine how glad I am to hear that!

>It sent shivers and chills crawling all over me!

Yeah, that's what writing it did to me, too. Glad I managed to transmit the feeling, heheh.

BTW, I took a quick look at your, uhmmmm, squick fic ;-) and I do plan to read it... I just need to fight down my squick some more, and write my frelling essays, of course. From what I could see the characterisation was fine, and the dialogue frequently quite witty - I just have a problem with the basic premise. But I *am* curious what you did with it. ;-)

Re: Hey, thanks!

[carenejeans.livejournal.com]

I just have a problem with the basic premise.

Heh. Tell me about it. 8-) You know how you cover your eyes during the scary parts of a horror movie then peek through your fingers? That's how I wrote this story. Especially the (gawd help me) sex. I had to force myself not to run screaming from the room. *g* Yes, it's a squick of mine too. I just had this really horrible idea (it gets horrible for a bit, as if you didn't need enough warning *away* from the story) and couldn't resist.

I'm curious about "Endure" -- did you have this up on your website in its previous versions? (It sounds like it from what you say, but I'm not sure.) I'm always curious when people revise things they've had up on the web for a while, because I'll do that. (In fact, I might be revising "Seahorse" soon because some people seem confused about the fate of the baby. I thought I'd left enough clues, but guess not. Hm.)

I'm not one of those writers who feel that once it's public, it's done and that's it. On a HL list recently someone wrote that she had taken *all* her stories down and was revising them! They'd been up for *years*. One of the other listmembers thought it was a ridiculous thing to do, but I thought it was cool that she thought enough of her stories to work at making them better, even after so long.

Anyway, I'm rambling.

Yes, it was up on my website -

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

had been for quite a while. Same goes for 'Together' (aka 'Hmpf does Harry Potter! Hmpf does slash!! It's the end of the world!!!' *g*), but the changes there were minor. I think 'Endure' is the only story where I've really changed major things long after its publication. I try not to do it, but sometimes it just happens. And I certainly make minor modifications in published stories when something catches my eye. As someone once said: art is never finished, only abandoned.