I first found your story linked from Mad Martha's homepage, but that link has been broken for a couple of months. I'd almost given up on ever getting to see it again, so I was ridiculously happy to find it here on LJ. Admittedly, happy in the nerdy kind of way, but I don't really mind the nerdy bit. Not as long as it brings me fan fiction like this.
I think the most basic and prominent thing about your fan fiction is that it makes sense . I realize that it sound boring, but it's quite essential, and you can immediately tell when it's not. It doesn't matter how interesting a plot outline you've got it it doesn't make sense and correlates with canon. When writing an AU, this is even more important, and granted more important than most people realize. (sigh)
It's all too easy to just set the story in a different time period, throw in a certain what-if, or a gender-bender without considering it's consequences other than how it would affect the clothing of the characters. I think almost all AU:s could be really good, even Taco Shows or Super Harrys, if the author considers how the characters would react to the certain stimuli. How would it affect other things, such as relations to characters that in canon are only minor? What would have happened to the time line? what incidents would not have taken place, and in what way would they have in altered?
So, what I'm trying to say in an extremely roundabout manner, is: major kudos to you for bothering to pay attention to all this. I can't tell you how happy I am that you're still writing this piece, and I hope to see many more from you eventually.
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I think the most basic and prominent thing about your fan fiction is that it makes sense . I realize that it sound boring, but it's quite essential, and you can immediately tell when it's not. It doesn't matter how interesting a plot outline you've got it it doesn't make sense and correlates with canon. When writing an AU, this is even more important, and granted more important than most people realize. (sigh)
It's all too easy to just set the story in a different time period, throw in a certain what-if, or a gender-bender without considering it's consequences other than how it would affect the clothing of the characters. I think almost all AU:s could be really good, even Taco Shows or Super Harrys, if the author considers how the characters would react to the certain stimuli. How would it affect other things, such as relations to characters that in canon are only minor? What would have happened to the time line? what incidents would not have taken place, and in what way would they have in altered?
So, what I'm trying to say in an extremely roundabout manner, is: major kudos to you for bothering to pay attention to all this. I can't tell you how happy I am that you're still writing this piece, and I hope to see many more from you eventually.