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This Writer's Fine Abilities
Jan. 14th, 2020 08:57 pmChallenge #7
Promote/Rec/Sing the Praises* of Yourself!
All right, here’s a panegyric praising PaulaMcG.
I haven’t always believed it, but it’s turned out that I’m bright and kind and creative and strong enough. It’s always been particularly important to me that I’m good at writing and getting better at it. I’m also faithful, and I care deeply about my characters and their story and all the words I choose for conveying it.
I’ve been dedicated and persistent, completing my very first fanfic, a chaptered post-OotP story from Remus Lupin’s perspective in seven years. The novel Remus Lupin and the Revolt of the Creatures depicts Remus’s personal and social development – and PaulaMcG’s development as a writer of fiction.
Some readers have told me,
it is truly amazing. … Your Remus … is completely real. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him, or any other character in fanfiction, written so deeply and extensively, with such multifaceted approach.
I’m good at world-building and extrapolating from canon (the canon I’ve chosen or been bound to limit myself to, because I started in 2003: Rowling’s first five novels) without contradicting it or anything in my earlier fic (or even real-world things like calendar or weather or other conditions in 1970s London or in 1980s and 1990s Mediterranean). Each of my fics works separately but also complements the story I’ve published before.
( readers’ praise for my writing style )
I also care about my readers, always reply to feedback in detail, and am eager to read and review their fiction. In 2010 I was nominated for the Kindest Author category at The Deathly Hallows Awards, while my novel was nominated in the Best Multi-Chapter category.
On the other hand, having returned to fandom last February, I proved that I was able to write without any feedback or even hope for any. I completed 17 out of the year’s total 24 short stories in my isolation on LJ , before mid October and HP Halloween.
I’ve written some exceptionally good pieces of fiction, and these are just two examples:
(in 2006) Anywhere And Back Again (set in Remus’s drifting years, often called the lost years in fandom)
and (in 2019) Truly Travelling Towards Someone (set in the summer when Sirius leaves Hogwarts).
Promote/Rec/Sing the Praises* of Yourself!
All right, here’s a panegyric praising PaulaMcG.
I haven’t always believed it, but it’s turned out that I’m bright and kind and creative and strong enough. It’s always been particularly important to me that I’m good at writing and getting better at it. I’m also faithful, and I care deeply about my characters and their story and all the words I choose for conveying it.
I’ve been dedicated and persistent, completing my very first fanfic, a chaptered post-OotP story from Remus Lupin’s perspective in seven years. The novel Remus Lupin and the Revolt of the Creatures depicts Remus’s personal and social development – and PaulaMcG’s development as a writer of fiction.
Some readers have told me,
it is truly amazing. … Your Remus … is completely real. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him, or any other character in fanfiction, written so deeply and extensively, with such multifaceted approach.
I’m good at world-building and extrapolating from canon (the canon I’ve chosen or been bound to limit myself to, because I started in 2003: Rowling’s first five novels) without contradicting it or anything in my earlier fic (or even real-world things like calendar or weather or other conditions in 1970s London or in 1980s and 1990s Mediterranean). Each of my fics works separately but also complements the story I’ve published before.
( readers’ praise for my writing style )
I also care about my readers, always reply to feedback in detail, and am eager to read and review their fiction. In 2010 I was nominated for the Kindest Author category at The Deathly Hallows Awards, while my novel was nominated in the Best Multi-Chapter category.
On the other hand, having returned to fandom last February, I proved that I was able to write without any feedback or even hope for any. I completed 17 out of the year’s total 24 short stories in my isolation on LJ , before mid October and HP Halloween.
I’ve written some exceptionally good pieces of fiction, and these are just two examples:
(in 2006) Anywhere And Back Again (set in Remus’s drifting years, often called the lost years in fandom)
and (in 2019) Truly Travelling Towards Someone (set in the summer when Sirius leaves Hogwarts).
