Ask "why?"

[veronica_rich]

For a friend in POTC fandom who has been asking me of late, "Why can't we ask why anymore?" - here's a chance to ask "why?" At least about fanfic. For anyone seeing this.

If you have any questions about any story I've written, go ahead and ask me. It can be "where'd you get that idea?" or "why the hell did you do that?" Or any variation thereof. If you don't like something and are curious, ask. To be honest, I can't promise I'll be able to answer - if it's been long enough, I may just not remember - but I'll try. All I ask is that you be civil.

(My stories are among Memories here and here. These are all ratings, including NC-17/M, so please be of age to read these.)

Comments

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

The fics? Holy cow, that's kind of a compliment - I think of a lot of people as The Writers of this fandom from way back, who set a standard, but they seemed more complex than me and somewhat darker. I'm pretty simple and I stick to simple things, even though I do like reading the dark and the complex.

So maybe that's my answer: There's no plot point I'd want to shoehorn in, or characters, but I wish I could do "dark" like some really good writers of the fandom - I just can't stand to make them hurt TOO much, but someone who does it well is really talented. I also think there were times in the series that I made Jack a little more "wibbly" than I would now, over Will *G* - but, it's romance and pr0n, so what the hell, eh?

[pigeongirl99.livejournal.com]

Oh definitely one of The fics for me. I can count the others on one hand that have made it to The status.

Personally I found Contradictions to have a lot of dark & complex- but unlike many of us you didn't go down the route of melodrama and fandom cliches.

Personally I'd love to be able to write something that wasn't so blessedly dark! :)

- nb- with reference to your comment below about others doing this meme? I thought about it, but I've done ones like this before and only had my best friend reply (who already, scarily enough, knew the inner workings of my mind) just to humour me, so I don't tend to do these anymore. I just get embarrassed after a while!