Ragweed

[mhalachai]

I'm off to the coffee shop to write in a few minutes, but I'm at a complete and utter loss of what to write. I have chapter 45 (*) of Inevitable running through my brain, as well as chapter 20 of Switchback III: Cathedral Mission (**) in there too... only problem is, I need to write the intervening chapters. Ugh.

I've been trying to write the next chapter of Candlelight, but Buffy is being very unhelpful. I think I need to rewatch some of season 5, damn it. Season five always pisses me off, because Buffy dies at the end. Like, come on. Joss, you killed Buffy! You bastard.

I'm been getting a lot of good reviews on this last chapter of Inevitable. Helpful stuff. Keep it up, guys :)

Time for coffee. I'll need to take a stir-stick (***)

(*) Actual chapter numbers may vary.
(**) Actual name yet to be decided.
(***) because there is no spoon.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I've been re-reading what you've written on Switchback, and this one line came out an just socked me right between the eyes. It really is a brilliant quote.

I'd still have all these bitter memories and nothing to show for it.

That would be one reason to not try and change anything if you were to go back in time. You'd think that you'd want to correct mistakes before they happened, save people, give prophecy to what ills the world will go through and how the stock market will fare in the upcomming weeks. But if you changed the world, then what happens to the world you had? What happens to you?

Despite all of the problems and caca that Anita has been slogging through, when we're left at the end of the last book, she'd finally seemed to settle down into a comfortable lifestyle that wasn't what she'd dreamed of when she was a kid, but what was perhaps what she needs. And now suddenly she's faced with supremely difficult and confusing choices. Things have changed in the intervening years; people have changed; lives have changed. The following quote really drives that point home in Switchback, really pulls the heart-strings, really make you think about the nature of change and the effects of time.

They might be alive, but...they weren't mine anymore.

These two quotes along with all the other quotes that surround it to make this wonderful story really make me see what I like about your writing so very much. You don't just have a wonderful plot. You don't just create wonderful characterizations. There's a lot of deep thoughts going into these fanfictions. There is emotion and Honest-to-God talent.

And...yeah...all of this is leading up to me saying that I can't wait for you to write more of Switchback... mumble...

E.A.V.

--And I can't remember where I read this, but is it in the books or is it in a fanfiction where Anita drives out some sort of demon that was keeping her from getting into the church and lights up all the crosses for miles around by praying?

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

And I can't remember where I read this, but is it in the books or is it in a fanfiction where Anita drives out some sort of demon that was keeping her from getting into the church and lights up all the crosses for miles around by praying?

I remember reading that scene, too, and was sure it was in a fanfic until you asked if it was in one of the books. Then I was all questioning my memory, because what I remembered about the emotions and character interactions slotted easily into canon.

So I went off to see if I could find it...

It's in mhalachai's own Mind The Gap. *blushes*
Chapter 7, if you want to read it again.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

As usual, thank you very much for your comments. They do cheer me up quite nicely on a Friday :)

That would be one reason to not try and change anything if you were to go back in time. You'd think that you'd want to correct mistakes before they happened, save people, give prophecy to what ills the world will go through and how the stock market will fare in the upcomming weeks. But if you changed the world, then what happens to the world you had? What happens to you?

This is the point I'm trying to make, that even if Anita had tried to keep things the same, they would have fallen apart, because she knew too much. And considering what her life has been, wouldn't she try and change things for the better? What if her good intentions don't work out that way?

really make you think about the nature of change and the effects of time.

The whole idea came to me a while ago, when I was waiting for the bus. I watched as a cyclist darted into traffic and narrowly missed getting hit by a car. I thought, what if he had waited a half-second longer to veer away? He'd have been hit by that car, and his whole life would have changed. All for half a second.

--And I can't remember where I read this, but is it in the books or is it in a fanfiction where Anita drives out some sort of demon that was keeping her from getting into the church and lights up all the crosses for miles around by praying?

Yeah, that's my Mind the Gap (here: http://www.tthfanfic.com/story.php?no=5606&chapter=7)

[(Anonymous)]

I just knew that the whole scenario had to be written by a good writer, I just couldn't remember which one. : )

I've been scouring Hamilton's books for the scene...now I feel like a dolt. But now that I know, I'm agoin' ta read da stor-ey!

Bai-lai-lai-lai-lai la Bamba!

E.A.V.