You know...

[leethet]

...something just occurred to me in light of the flood of vignettes that seem to be out there ... is it going to become the preferred style of online fic-writing, and are the longer stories I must assume someone's writing somewhere all reserved for zines?
That would be a bummer. I like long stuff, and I liked it being free. :)

Comments

[cousinnat.livejournal.com]

I do have a longer story in the works, but it's been in those works for a LONG time, and I don't feel inclined to finish it right now even though I occasionally add a paragraph or two. (Real Life is too busy.) On the other hand, I LOVE to write vignettes. I think they come out of an emotional need to connect with Napoleon and Illya for a couple of hours (and the need to get them to connect with each other). Vignettes are cathartic. I force them on my friends with "what do you think of this?" and they're polite and say "very nice" and then I put them in a file and that's that. Describing them as junk food is quite appropriate.

Nat

Italics

[tgabrielle.livejournal.com]

How did our comments become italics? I will be interested to see how this turns out and it is not emphatic by any stretch. Someone teased me long ago that all of my stories were exactly thirty pages long, like I had a timer for them. So, I decided to go longer and I have. HOWEVER, I suppose it is a good exercise to be consise at times. Part of me has never enjoyed short stories in any form and I'm not even talking about vinyettes. I just don't know what to do with my stories. I'm not going to go the zine route anymore. But, at least for me, I'm not sure what works. There are many options to be sure, but I can't come up with what is the best.

Re: Italics

[tgabrielle.livejournal.com]

Hey, and Nat's comments are no longer in italics. I swear they were. I must be quite nuts.

Re: Italics

[tgabrielle.livejournal.com]

And it's vignettes and concise and I'm going for good now!

Re: Italics

[leethet.livejournal.com]

I believe you. It happened to me once on Clare's LJ. I think I typed start-ital and end-ital backward in a reply, and EVERYTHING after that, including others' responses, was in italics. Then the next time I went back to the site, it was OK. I thought I had broken her LJ and italicized it all forever. :)

Re: Italics

[tgabrielle.livejournal.com]

The are in italics again now.

Re: Italics

[tgabrielle.livejournal.com]

uh, they