Well, then...
Sep. 14th, 2010 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
przedJust got an email comment on my second UNCLE slash story, written, oh, about 15 years ago. It included the following gem:
"You have a knack for plot, and your dialogue isn't bad. :) Practice makes perfect, ne?"
I am soooo tempted to send a snarky reply, but think I shall settle for amused silence.
(BTW, I'm not saying the story's a gem. Those early UNCLE stories were a bit rough. But, man, I think my dialogue is better than not bad. *g*)
"You have a knack for plot, and your dialogue isn't bad. :) Practice makes perfect, ne?"
I am soooo tempted to send a snarky reply, but think I shall settle for amused silence.
(BTW, I'm not saying the story's a gem. Those early UNCLE stories were a bit rough. But, man, I think my dialogue is better than not bad. *g*)
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Date: 2010-09-15 02:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 02:43 am (UTC)The man is a cub scout, not question about it, always willing to help Bodie with his woggle.
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Date: 2010-09-15 02:45 am (UTC)That's the weird thing, Grits, she'd already read Mikey and the PsychoSam-atic stories and she's talking about Tina.
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Date: 2010-09-15 02:46 am (UTC)Well, it certainly opened a few eyes. *g*
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Date: 2010-09-15 02:47 am (UTC)We're now rather fond of a little exposed wood...
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Date: 2010-09-15 02:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 02:48 am (UTC)I suggested she check out TGS. *g*
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Date: 2010-09-15 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 02:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 02:58 am (UTC)I recognize writers names in my fandoms that haven't been active in them in years/who have long since moved on to other fandoms but I don't think that would be common any more. My experience with the newb who thought I should be encouraged to write my second story isn't an isolated one.
Ah, I followed the name you mentioned further down and she does indeed appear to be a bit of a fandom butterfly. Her recs cover multiple fandoms.
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Date: 2010-09-15 03:07 am (UTC)Seriously, there are BNFs in the LJ NCIS comms that I avoid like the plague, and not because their ship is not my ship or some other such fanwank rot. They're just horrible writers. One cranks out five or six drabblish-length completely OOC Ducky/Gibbs fics a week, to the point where you have to skip through 25 pages of her stuff on the archive (it doesn't help that her initials are AA) should you be interested in the pairing.
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Date: 2010-09-15 03:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 03:21 am (UTC)Alas, that definitely seems to be an attitude whose time is fading, in some areas of fandom, anyway.
I think not being able to tell Sam from Gene is actually worse that not being able to tell Bodie from Doyle. Marginally, anyway.
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Date: 2010-09-15 03:32 am (UTC)I completely agree. Bodie and Doyle are almost twins in comparison to Sam and Gene. *g*
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Date: 2010-09-15 04:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 06:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 08:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 08:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 03:55 pm (UTC)Nice to know your dialogue isn't bad though, eh? Something for you to build on...it's good to have goals! *g*
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Date: 2010-09-15 05:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 07:23 pm (UTC)*shakes head* Sometimes I really wonder about people and if they think about what they write.
Still it must be nice for you to have a goal for the future *g*.
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Date: 2010-09-16 01:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-16 01:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-16 01:06 am (UTC)That's done it. I'm never reading your fic again. ;)
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Date: 2010-09-16 01:07 am (UTC)