February festival, Day 6
Feb. 6th, 2012 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pensnestA fic with great dialogue.
Trouble is, great dialogue crops up in so many popslash stories, and I cannot for the life of me remember all the fabulous conversations that have made me laugh aloud, or smile and nod and say yes, or even rage at the characters.
However. I'm sticking with yesterday's author, Jae, because The Earl of Rothinghamtonfordshire has some of the best dialogue *ever*. Those Backstreet group meetings in which everyone gets sidetracked into discussing Nick's book, Kevin's eyebrows and the fact that "they're not real monkeys"... Much of the story happens in dialogue, and it is brilliant. (When I recorded the story I kept having to stop the recording, announce to the cat that this was the best story *ever*, and sober myself before I could get on with it.)
Nothing I've written is on a level with TEoR, which is no surprise. And really, deciding that I've written "great dialogue" is a bit, well, I dunno, it isn't really my call. However, I'm nominating The White Room, because I remember wanting to keep things fairly stark when I was writing it, and cutting back on frills and such as best I could. I'm a frilly writer. But I'm particularly fond of the scene where Chris is bandaged and the five of them are eating together.
Trouble is, great dialogue crops up in so many popslash stories, and I cannot for the life of me remember all the fabulous conversations that have made me laugh aloud, or smile and nod and say yes, or even rage at the characters.
However. I'm sticking with yesterday's author, Jae, because The Earl of Rothinghamtonfordshire has some of the best dialogue *ever*. Those Backstreet group meetings in which everyone gets sidetracked into discussing Nick's book, Kevin's eyebrows and the fact that "they're not real monkeys"... Much of the story happens in dialogue, and it is brilliant. (When I recorded the story I kept having to stop the recording, announce to the cat that this was the best story *ever*, and sober myself before I could get on with it.)
Nothing I've written is on a level with TEoR, which is no surprise. And really, deciding that I've written "great dialogue" is a bit, well, I dunno, it isn't really my call. However, I'm nominating The White Room, because I remember wanting to keep things fairly stark when I was writing it, and cutting back on frills and such as best I could. I'm a frilly writer. But I'm particularly fond of the scene where Chris is bandaged and the five of them are eating together.
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Date: 2012-02-06 11:37 am (UTC)Clearly, this is all part of your plot to make reccers stay on track (I'm only, er, three days behind at this point), because you have again recced one of my planned stories. I was going to rec your marvellous reading, too.
Now I guess I'll have to come up with something else. And perhaps pout a little. In a cheerful kind of way.
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Date: 2012-02-07 10:41 am (UTC)