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Taking Chances, by E. L. Van Hine and L.H. Nicoll
MaineWriter:
After a day like that, Louise, I would be sipping something stronger than cold mineral water.
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Helen:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on July 14, 2006, 11:58:10 am ---Given the story I wrote, some might assume (incorrectly) that I belong to that club. I don't. For me, each story is its own separate experience and stands (or falls) on its own merits. Reading a story about movingon!Ennis does not negate a very good story that has Jack & Ennis 4ever.
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I'm with you there Leslie. I loved Somebody New and that was most definitely a JE4EVA story. I love Divergent Dreams where Ennis has a bit of a blip with Tyler. The stories I don't like are the ones where the author is obviously making Ennis suffer because s/he believes he has to be punished. I find them to be somewhat disturbing.
Not only do I think that each story stands on its own merits...but I also think that each Jack and Ennis in these stories is a seperate entity to the Jack and Ennis of the movie (who, in turn, weren't quite llike the J and E of the short story).
In my series Some Sweet Life a few people have commented that Ennis is a bit less noncomunicative than they imagined him to be. Which is fine because he is. But then if he was totally canon with Movie!Ennis he wouldn't have got in Jack's truck after they came down from the mountain. And that's always been my argument - NONE of the stories us fanfic authors tell will ever have either Ennis or Jack as totally canon because in order to write our stories some kind of change in character is needed. Some are closer than others, of course, but they are all a little fantasy on our part.
And that is fine with me. Real life is full of enough shit for me to want to depress myself further.
MaineWriter:
Will people just view and refresh, view and refresh a few times? We are about to pass the person below me game in number of views....my competitive streak is showing, isn't it?
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Lumière:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on July 14, 2006, 01:15:36 pm ---Will people just view and refresh, view and refresh a few times? We are about to pass the person below me game in number of views....my competitive streak is showing, isn't it?
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tsk tsk tsk Leslie ... ;D
I am sure we don't need to resort to those means ...LOL
I just realised that our last gallery post was almost 30 pages back.. :o (ok, about 25 pages back)
So I am about to do another update...
Any last minute props to add? :) ( I got the plugs and butter already ... :P )
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Lucise on July 14, 2006, 01:18:07 pm ---
tsk tsk tsk Leslie ... ;D
I am sure we don't need to resort to those means ...LOL
I just realised that our last gallery post was almost 30 pages back.. :o (ok, about 25 pages back)
So I am about to do another update...
Any last minute props to add? :)
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Give me a second, yes....
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