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Aug. 5th, 2010 01:48 pmI forgot to mention in Tuesday's trivia post that the song running through my head during Buttercup's monster ownage scene is Nat King Cole's "Aquellos Ojos Verdes." Love it in context, especially with Butch getting all mentally invested in the fight.
Transition to today's tfr post! We'll make it a Greens one, kids :D
There's the tiniest bit of significance to this one. I wrote it back in 2007 after I hadn't written for a long while and sent it off to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mathkid to beta. I got a very important e-mail back. It's hard for me to go into detail about why it was so important... but it just got me really thinking about character motivation and making that a key part of even the smallest little fic. You can be technically decent and stylistically competent, but those things alone do not a great story make. History and meaning count for a lot. Neither of those things have to be explicit, but at the very least they should be present if you really want to set your stuff apart.
Anyway, there's my vague history behind today's tfr post. I had plans for the better part of a year to flesh this out, but had a lot of trouble coming up with something that didn't feel contrived/tacked on. Plus, I was getting more and more sucked into writing TEF, at which point most everything else that I could've been working on became much less compelling to write.
( I still really like the title, though - Force of Habit. )
The double "***" lines in between some sections were supposed to be flashbacks to that history between them that I couldn't get to work. The history I was trying to work with was basically Butch becoming conscious of their sexual tension when fighting, waiting for Buttercup to come around to recognizing it as well, and then getting frustrated and leaving when it became clear that that wasn't going to happen anytime soon. Man, he sounds OOC, doesn't he? No wonder I couldn't get this to work.
Transition to today's tfr post! We'll make it a Greens one, kids :D
There's the tiniest bit of significance to this one. I wrote it back in 2007 after I hadn't written for a long while and sent it off to
mathkid to beta. I got a very important e-mail back. It's hard for me to go into detail about why it was so important... but it just got me really thinking about character motivation and making that a key part of even the smallest little fic. You can be technically decent and stylistically competent, but those things alone do not a great story make. History and meaning count for a lot. Neither of those things have to be explicit, but at the very least they should be present if you really want to set your stuff apart.Anyway, there's my vague history behind today's tfr post. I had plans for the better part of a year to flesh this out, but had a lot of trouble coming up with something that didn't feel contrived/tacked on. Plus, I was getting more and more sucked into writing TEF, at which point most everything else that I could've been working on became much less compelling to write.
( I still really like the title, though - Force of Habit. )
The double "***" lines in between some sections were supposed to be flashbacks to that history between them that I couldn't get to work. The history I was trying to work with was basically Butch becoming conscious of their sexual tension when fighting, waiting for Buttercup to come around to recognizing it as well, and then getting frustrated and leaving when it became clear that that wasn't going to happen anytime soon. Man, he sounds OOC, doesn't he? No wonder I couldn't get this to work.
