Author Topic: "Nightfall" by "Living in Transcendence"  (Read 17344 times)

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Re: "Nightfall" by "Living in Transcendence"
« Reply #30 on: October 11, 2006, 08:36:22 pm »
http://trascedenza.livejournal.com/33030.html#cutid1

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3017065/8/

Sorry about that, just barely got the chapter posted before I had to be out the door. :)

Well, the conflict with Ennis won't be solely be about Alma.  But we'll see more of that in the next few chapters... and definitely there does need to be openness between them, they're just creating problems for themselves.  Silly boys. :P

Re: The Draft
Does it say whether there was a need to draft in 1963?  Because from what my co-author says, they were not actively drafting in 1963/4.

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Re: "Nightfall" by "Living in Transcendence"
« Reply #31 on: October 13, 2006, 02:08:28 am »
In peacetime (after WW2), they drafted to keep a certain sized standing army intact...whether they were actively increasing ther wsize of the army (I believe they were sendsing guys to Vietnam as erarly as 1963!) or nopt, I don't know. Plenty on Google under "the draft."  Interesting ythat one of the two changes proulx made in the story after the puiblication in the New Yorker was to switch "miliytary serviuce" to "the draft..."

Ennis's description of Jack is so beautiful..I've been going around all day looking for people I knew, or even didn't know, with ears like butterfly wings...
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Re: "Nightfall" by "Living in Transcendence"
« Reply #32 on: October 19, 2006, 04:16:46 am »
There were men in Vietnam as early as '64, but I don't know about '63.  Like I told Sarah when we started writing the story, I didn't want to have to do any research for it since I do plenty of that for Nightfall :)  I PMed her the plot bunny because it was one I'd been tossing around in my head for awhile but didn't have the energy to pursue, at least not alone.  So she handles all that end of it.  And she's a PoliSci major so she's quite a bit more knowledgeable than me :)

Oh, and I've got about 1200 words for the next Nightfall chapter so I think it will be ready to post soon. :)

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Re: "Nightfall" by "Living in Transcendence"
« Reply #33 on: October 19, 2006, 09:15:08 am »
There were men in Vietnam as early as '64, but I don't know about '63.  Like I told Sarah when we started writing the story, I didn't want to have to do any research for it since I do plenty of that for Nightfall :)  I PMed her the plot bunny because it was one I'd been tossing around in my head for awhile but didn't have the energy to pursue, at least not alone.  So she handles all that end of it.  And she's a PoliSci major so she's quite a bit more knowledgeable than me :)

Oh, and I've got about 1200 words for the next Nightfall chapter so I think it will be ready to post soon. :)

Hi Sheera!

Wonderful! Really looking forward to the next chapter, didn't like the way the last one ended  :(

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Re: "Nightfall" by "Living in Transcendence"
« Reply #34 on: October 23, 2006, 05:11:54 am »
I've been lurking for quite a long time, looking into threads and what not.  I find this fic so intriguing because it feels so poetic, yet its set in such an unpoetic time period, that is, the part when the Nazi's come in.  Not so good.

We had an update a few weeks ago, but its been a drought for a while.  Sheera?  How's about an update?

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Re: "Nightfall" by "Living in Transcendence"
« Reply #35 on: October 23, 2006, 11:51:30 pm »
Sheera?  How's about an update?

http://trascedenza.livejournal.com/35932.html#cutid1

Since you asked so nicely. ;D

Not really my most inspired chapter, but I'm hoping but as all these parts I'm trying to weave start coming together it will make more sense.  Plot and I aren't always the best of friends...

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Re: "Nightfall" by "Living in Transcendence"
« Reply #36 on: October 26, 2006, 02:54:20 am »
Chapter 9 is up---you just go to chapter 1 and march (if you'll pardon the exprerssion) down the list...how can a scene between Loreen and Jack be so sexy?
I was telling Sheera that under Mao (China, 1949-1976) some of the conscripted painters got themselves a classical education in art by being allowed into the locked museums "to practice my work" for the great Cultural Revolution...but of course Mao wasn't quite as  bad as The House Painter (as the Italians--those in their right minds)--called him.

Alma looms as more and more of a problem, because it's Jack who needs taking care of, and Ennis doesn't (as yet) even seem to be able to take care of himself...

More....s'il vous plait...
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Re: "Nightfall" by "Living in Transcendence"
« Reply #37 on: October 26, 2006, 09:15:31 pm »
I've been a huge fan of Nightfall for a while. Its very unique and its very well written. I take german in HS so i know the words that aren't translated. Very good, and some parts feel so sensual, and romantic. I think the author (name is too long to type) is my favorite FF writer. I also loved The Words Would Not Come. Another favorite of mine that ends sweetly.
"He was very afraid of being hurt. He was afraid of opening up in case it was turned around and used against him."


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Re: "Nightfall" by "Living in Transcendence"
« Reply #38 on: October 27, 2006, 01:31:35 am »
...how can a scene between Loreen and Jack be so sexy?
LOL!  I hadn't even been thinking that while writing it.  But she's most certainly on the women side of the orientation spectrum and he's on the man's, so nothing will be developing there unless they decide to surprise me ;)

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...got themselves a classical education in art by being allowed into the locked museums "to practice my work" for the great Cultural Revolution...
It's fascinating to see how the same practices of indoctrination are used again and again throughout history (what you were saying about how Mao also got a lot of portraiture commissioned).  Interesting that in this case the artists actually benefitted, though!

Very good, and some parts feel so sensual, and romantic. I think the author (name is too long to type) is my favorite FF writer.
Wow, thank you so much!  Brokeback is my first foray into fanfiction and it's been so rewarding, it's truly an honor that you would say that :)

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I also loved The Words Would Not Come. Another favorite of mine that ends sweetly.
Ahhh, interestingly enough I'm doing a re-write of that story.  It looks like I'll be adding in a lot more content and just re-posting the whole thing once I'm done--the editing bug bit me pretty badly!  I'm a little afraid of messing it up but I'm having it beta'd this time to make sure I don't :)

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Re: "Nightfall" by "Living in Transcendence"
« Reply #39 on: October 30, 2006, 03:19:35 pm »
Sheera: I didn't mean "sexy" as in man-woman sex, I meant sexy in Jack's communication of his feelings about Ennis...sorry for the mixup!

Between yoiu and Jess (marakeshsparrow), I am kept so in awe of the writing springing from Brokeback. I think, in addition to a great shiort story, we owe Proulx a debt of gratitude for a  few budding great writers that might never have existed if it weren't for hers.

You guys make me ashamed to put words on paper...but I keep plugging along anyway!~
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