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I mean, it's not crazy. But it's kind of stupid when you think about it. Zack's networking skills paying off for him in the afterlife? Or is it just because he felt like he had something left to do? If the former, fucking ridiculous. If the latter, then it'd make sense for Angeal to be "alive"...

Can I second this? The only two people who should still retain consciousness in the Lifestream are Aerith and Sephiroth. I highly dislike the implication that Zack is "alive" in ACC as well, but thankfully you can more or less handwave both Angeal and Zack as projections from Zack and Cloud...

Bastion. Devastating. Also, pretty much all my narrative kinks rolled up into one game.

Guys, caramelsilver's hosting her annual three sentence ficathon! Stop in to leave prompts and/or do some low-stress writing. :) --- I tend to accumulate a lot of floating scenes due to my writing process. Sometimes they aren't even attached to a story, so I don't even consider them "cut"...

I keep various "shorts" and "dump file" docs in my folders. The things I've written over, I throw into the dump file, the scenes I haven't, I chuck into shorts. Sometimes I will just write shorts to get scenes or lines of dialogue out of my head and throw them in there for future use. I haven't...

Quick question: So I bet a lot of you guys, like every other writer, end up writing a lot of scenes/snippets that don't make it into the final version of a story. Or you just write a lot of short snippets for fun. Most of them are shit, which is why they get tossed, but some of them are pretty...

If it's anything like the film: A good fun romp, but, as you put it, monumentally stupid. It felt very much like a YA story set in a dystopian world. I am not a fan of either YA stories or dystopian stories, so I can't recommend it in good faith. But if you turn off your brain, it might be...

*cough*Genesis&Angeal*cough* But most writing is masturbatory by nature! Most writing is about the author or the author's interests at some level; you wouldn't be writing if you weren't personally invested in the story, and you wouldn't be posting your stories unless you wanted someone else to...

See, best friend or romantic interest OCs actually ping as "OC-centric" fics to me. Because they're not about the canon character or the world -- not really -- they're about the OC and the OC's relationship with the canon characters. Whereas a story like ShinRa's Sword is totally down my alley...

I'm not really interested in OC-centric stories. That doesn't mean I'm not interested in stories told from the POV of an OC, though. I am fine with stories where OCs and canon characters are interacting in a way that sheds light on the world and/or the canon characters; I also like stories where...

Another grab bag: For me, shipfic = any story where a pairing is the main focus. Genfic is anything where the main focus is not on the ship. Genfic can have shipping elements in it though, and the ship can even be indispensable to the understanding of the story (see Freedom's Just Another Word...

Just gonna leave this here because it's recent and relevant. Try not to step into the 50 Shades wank, but the thread highlights something I think writers should probably be more aware of, and it's that badfic is actually more interesting to people than blandfic. People can stomach a lot of bad...

Absolutely. And yeah, it's totally your prerogative if you don't like to read pairing fic. I'm not saying you have to; I just gnash my teeth when people imply they're substandard by default. Pairings don't have to be your thing, but that doesn't mean they're bad. At their worst, they're crutches...

You're getting hung up on "shipping" and are completely missing my point now. >_> Let me rephrase this: "I mean, this isn't even about popularity, right? It's about inducing response so that you don't feel like you're chucking stones into an empty well, 'cause that feels awful for a writer...

I think people are vastly underestimating how many hits people get for their stories? The thing is, unless you are truly awful at summary writing, you're gonna get 10+ hits. Out of the "unpopular" pairing/character fics I've posted recently, my lowest is ~50 hits on FFN and AO3 combined, and...

Something I've wanted to talk about for a while, 'cause there's so much discussion lately about lack of reviews and lack of readers and how to promote fanfiction. I'm speaking generally, of course: "you" = general you. Okay, so ultimately, I think there are lots of things you can do for your...

If you're talking about original stuff: you might wanna check out workshops like Critters. Also, summer workshops like what you get at Clarion West are good for fantasy/sci-fi speculative fiction and will come with an audience. Problem is you need to apply. (Also you need to have the time/money...

Sorry, OT: I've always been a bit fuzzy about the relationship between Loveless the poem and Loveless the-stuff-written-on-the-stones-in-Banora-underground. I could throw around a couple of theories, but they're just theories, and I wonder if there's anything official on how they relate. And...

She actually just updated her dA page last month. From the comments on her page, it seems maybe her dog got sick? I can't imagine her ever giving up on writing. She is waaaaaaaaaay too prolific for that.

I didn't read everything, but ... To be entirely fair, I would mock it too if it were a scientific paper. It's not suitable for that field, considering she more or less just threw out a theory and didn't bother trying to prove it scientifically. Well, that's not entirely her fault; she couldn't...