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[mercyrobot]

Totally stolen from blackletter, because you know how much I love blathering about ficcing!

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

All my stuff is on this tag and anything is fair game. C'mon, you know you want to.

Comments

[hazeltea.livejournal.com]

I was a bit slow on reading this to figure out if it was WWI or AU. http://thirstyrobot.livejournal.com/52517.html#cutid1 But it was excellent. I am just dense.

[thirstyrobot.livejournal.com]

Oh my lord, writing this fic was like amateur dentistry with nothing but a fork and some tweezers. I was in an awful funk, which was why I asked for the prompts in the first place, and then here I was with not only the "action" directive, but also a historical setting I knew almost nothing about. Cue a bunch of emergency research and absolutely squat coming out the way I wanted. Rather than military-movie-action-sequence-splodey, I got stuck on the image of a dying soldier bleeding out in Bertie's arms croaking out "It's a Long Way to Tipperary." It was successful in its own way, I think, but not exactly action, and definitely taught me that my writing muscles are just not built for big fast-paced stuff-go-boom scenes.

It really is almost AU-- I had to do some fuzzy math and just throw out some bits of the canon timeline I've worked up in my head. But it's conceivable that Bertie could have been there, and been there with Jeeves, which is why I set it towards the end of the war with Bertie basically fresh from the Eton trainee corps and Jeeves having been in a bit longer. The only way I could rationalize it having happened and still have canon exist was that Bertie sort of blocks it out. So yeah, a little suspension of disbelief is required.

[hazeltea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just can't imagine Bertie living through this and not being more mature than he was when the stories started, so I was thinking first WWII, then that didn't make sense, so I thought AU. It was so lovely though :)