Well, if the homosexuality seems tacked on and extraneous, I'll accept that as a flaw in my execution. There are lots of things I throw into AQ because they seem like good ideas to me, which is the license fan fiction writers have. A professional editor would no doubt chop a lot of my details and subplots if AQ were being published.
FWIW, though, I didn't sit down and say "AQ needs a message about homosexuality and diversity, so who shall I make gay?"
A professional editor would no doubt chop a lot of my details and subplots if AQ were being published.
It's so good, not much would change, and I'd be sorry for some of the material that would disappear (the descriptions in the Lands Below, for example, while tedious, really did contribute a lot to the mood that befits those scenes).
I find this discussion very interesting. I didn't feel that Inverarity tacked it on at all - while I didn't like it back when you revealed Max, it really Americanized the feel of the book to me.
I've worked with teenagers and let's face it, these are the topics that occupy their consciousness, and you do a great job describing the general craziness! My mother says - Teenagehood is the closest you get to psychosis. Alexandra's obsessions and hit and miss maturity level are a great parallel to many creative and talented kids who tend to take on too much. And I loved the scene where Alex described her dating life with Constance and Forbearance, you really got the dynamics perfectly, when there are a few "good" girls who, for whatever reason, are respected by the others and there's this urge to tempt them, but also to protect them.
Thanks for not getting too explicit, though... leave something for the meta-fanfiction.
(Tealterror - I plan to respond to your last comment on tomorrow's response thread.)
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inverarity) wrote2012-04-23 07:39 am
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FWIW, though, I didn't sit down and say "AQ needs a message about homosexuality and diversity, so who shall I make gay?"
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(Anonymous) 2012-04-26 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)It's so good, not much would change, and I'd be sorry for some of the material that would disappear (the descriptions in the Lands Below, for example, while tedious, really did contribute a lot to the mood that befits those scenes).
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I've worked with teenagers and let's face it, these are the topics that occupy their consciousness, and you do a great job describing the general craziness! My mother says - Teenagehood is the closest you get to psychosis. Alexandra's obsessions and hit and miss maturity level are a great parallel to many creative and talented kids who tend to take on too much. And I loved the scene where Alex described her dating life with Constance and Forbearance, you really got the dynamics perfectly, when there are a few "good" girls who, for whatever reason, are respected by the others and there's this urge to tempt them, but also to protect them.
Thanks for not getting too explicit, though... leave something for the meta-fanfiction.
(Tealterror - I plan to respond to your last comment on tomorrow's response thread.)
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