to just sit down one day and start writing fanfic - start writing anything - and to be this good at it? there are moments while i'm reading where i literally stop and think to myself, "i couldn't possibly have just read that, because it would be too clever for anyone to have written." and then i'll read it again, just to be sure.
She is extraordinarily gifted, and I'm sure she could have written novels for a living should that have been her career choice. Maybe I'm wrong, but this is an individual who has been practicing her craft for a long time, writing since childhood I would bet, and maybe in another fandom, too. Maybe original fic, too?
so far i feel like Mulder's characterization is more spot on than Scully's. but then the focus is really on Scully, or at least she's the person whose character we're seeing most of the story through, so she's bound to be more difficult to write. and anyway, i think her characterization is excellent. it's just not quite exactly as i see her myself, is all. i'm sure not complaining; i like her this way too, a lot.
This is in-a-relationship-with-Ethan-Scully, not our Scully, not exactly. It is by observing those subtle differences that Syntax6 makes this story work so well. Like all of the best writers, she is also a fine psychologist.
her fic feels like getting to have my cake and eat it too, which is one of my favorite things about fanfic in general - that it delivers the fantasy, but lets you keep your canon pristine.
Yeah, she lucked out a bit by taking advantage of the ending to One Breath. Thank goodness for canon mind wipes. In this, in its sequel, and in "Isometry" as well, she fits her own complicated storyline into canon better than anyone before or since. It's practically seamless. She makes it look easy, too, and it's not, not in the least.
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Date: 2010-12-01 04:15 pm (UTC)She is extraordinarily gifted, and I'm sure she could have written novels for a living should that have been her career choice. Maybe I'm wrong, but this is an individual who has been practicing her craft for a long time, writing since childhood I would bet, and maybe in another fandom, too. Maybe original fic, too?
so far i feel like Mulder's characterization is more spot on than Scully's. but then the focus is really on Scully, or at least she's the person whose character we're seeing most of the story through, so she's bound to be more difficult to write. and anyway, i think her characterization is excellent. it's just not quite exactly as i see her myself, is all. i'm sure not complaining; i like her this way too, a lot.
This is in-a-relationship-with-Ethan-Scully, not our Scully, not exactly. It is by observing those subtle differences that Syntax6 makes this story work so well. Like all of the best writers, she is also a fine psychologist.
her fic feels like getting to have my cake and eat it too, which is one of my favorite things about fanfic in general - that it delivers the fantasy, but lets you keep your canon pristine.
Yeah, she lucked out a bit by taking advantage of the ending to One Breath. Thank goodness for canon mind wipes. In this, in its sequel, and in "Isometry" as well, she fits her own complicated storyline into canon better than anyone before or since. It's practically seamless. She makes it look easy, too, and it's not, not in the least.