FIC: Any Given Tuesday (AB/BtVS) completed

[mhalachai]

After more than a year's hiatus, Any Given Tuesday is completed.
Chapter 12 and 13 are now up, and that story is closed.

Thoughts on why I chose not to go back and rewrite the story:

Over this last year, I have been writing a lot of stuff in the AB universe. Inevitable, Mind the Gap, Switchback... my writing style has changed, as has the direction I take my characters. As I have moved on as a writer, my characters no longer explain everything all the time to everyone, and my use of colloquial language moved more to the dialogue side than as narrative, as some examples. Basically, I grew over the last year, away from what I was as a writer when I wrote the first 11 chapters of AGT.

So why not rewrite? What would I change? I'm not going to mention that, as it's not really relevant any longer. I could have spent weeks redoing AGT to fit where I am now as a writer, but that's all time reviewing the past. As a writer, I've got other projects on the go, and will spend the time on those. That is why I ended AGT as I did, with the ending envisioned when I began the story. Moving forward.

Another thing I noticed, that trying to juxtapose my current writing style with the Zerbrowski voice in AGT with my current Anita voice in Inevitable made my brain explode. I need to go read Inevitable all over again.

In other news, and if it's any consolation, I've got the first line of the next Inevitable chapter ready, and it's a doozy :P

Please feel free to comment, review, criticize, anything you'd like with the story. I do enjoy talking about fic, as you will all no doubt have noticed.

Comments

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed my first foray (well, following up from Hubris) into AB fic. I tried to keep the style the same, but didn't go too overboard on that. I reread AGT to get a feel for Zerbrowski again, but now I'm all uncertain fr my Anita voice in IN. Poor me, right?

[eavling.livejournal.com]

I'm also left wondering how the lycanthrope community is going to deal with the repercussions of Noah's trial. How are they going to keep all manner of bones from coming out from under their beds?

I don't think it will be too hard for you to get into the swing of writing Anita again. In some respects, Zerbroski (what is his first name again?), as how you wrote him, and Inevitable's Anita are extremely similar. They're just trying to get along and live right day to day, and maybe save someone in the process.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I'm also left wondering how the lycanthrope community is going to deal with the repercussions of Noah's trial.

Yeah, we're, uh, not going to deal with that.

We have never been told Zerbrowski's first name. I made up Tom for the story, because the man's wife isn't going to call him by his last name at home.

Hrm, I think IN needs more Zerbrowski.