You might be reading one of my stories if...

[springgreen]

Whoo! First draft of the Yuletide fic has gone in to beta, and it is well over word count.

Anyway, from vee_fic and etothey:

You might be reading one of my stories if:

1. There are loving descriptions of food, especially of Asian food. Sometimes I attempt to squeeze in characterization with the food, but sometimes it's just gratuitous food porn.

2. Very little actually happens. Even if there actually is plot, the bits that I write will be the moments right before or right after the action, or they'll be the small character moments in the cracks.

3. I will attempt to squash in as many references to Chinese culture as I possibly can. This will include but will not be limited to: poetry, holidays, food, poetry, significant landmarks, and more poetry.

4. At least one thing in there is taken from personal experience, because my imagination sucks.

5. The story will be built around themes or images intended to illuminate character. If there is actually some plot, it probably managed to sneak past me. Also, if you find it, please tell me and let me know, as I would like to capture it and enshrine it forever.

6. Aforementioned themes or images will probably only be connected together in my brain, leading to fic composed of many snippets that are linked together only by structure or imagery.

7. Everything will be very, very quiet, and very, very happy. If I cannot achieve happiness, I will at least go for peaceful joy. Or I will go right past that to the dark sucker punch.

8. I try to layer as many images as possible. I like to tell myself that this is actually crafting symbolism or constant repetition for greater effect, but part of it is because I am lazy.

Does that sound about right?

Comments

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

I live to serve! (http://smillaraaq.livejournal.com/19506.html) I just checked the download link and it's still good; the lyrics link is offline at the moment but I can dig a copy out of my archives if you're curious. There's only four different Native artists on that one -- Kashtin, Robbie Robertson, Ulali, and Joanne Shenandoah, but multiple songs by most as I tend to structure my mixes with at least one or two artists who are repeated throughout the thing to lend it a more unified feel.

(If you're looking for more music I've got two other mixes that you can find via the tags -- the other A:TLA one is for a crackship fic, but the Saiyuki mix I did a couple months ago is my most ambitious mix to date, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. Now that I'm a little less hopelessly inept with my graphics programs, I'm planning on eventually going back to the Sokka/Yue mix and tarting it up with lyrics/graphic pages like I did for the 10K/585 piece.)

[springgreen.livejournal.com]

Eeeee! Thank you so much! Will check out when I get home. Yay yay music yay!