As to SF – personally, if I would have to describe the writing, I would describe it as simple, aggressive and "in your face", which, seems to suit this story just fine, but, again.. just my 2 cents worth.
It's an interesting question – what makes a story well-written and stand apart from the rest.. Certainly, in SF, its' not the style of writing (e.g. - there are writers who can paint beautiful pictures with their prose. Quite a few in the Pros fandom, such as M. Fae Glasgo, Angelfish ( I know she's not everybody's cup of tea, but I think she's fabulous ), or the one who wrote "The high up and alive fruit". Can remember who it is at the moment. There are many others, of course). That's not the case with SF.
In SF - IMVHO - it's the way the characters become (to me, at least) "actual people" after a while . And I think that, if a writer can make you care deeply about a fictional character, be it love them or hate them with a passion , they are doing something right…
As yes, I can assure you, that to Vadim's great discomfort, Dan will certainly be reappearing.. :-)
Also, I'm always looking for good original slash fics (there aren't that many I could find), and am going to try the other recced fic, if it's online
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Re: special forces
Date: 2009-04-24 09:53 am (UTC)As to SF – personally, if I would have to describe the writing, I would describe it as simple, aggressive and "in your face", which, seems to suit this story just fine, but, again.. just my 2 cents worth.
It's an interesting question – what makes a story well-written and stand apart from the rest.. Certainly, in SF, its' not the style of writing (e.g. - there are writers who can paint beautiful pictures with their prose. Quite a few in the Pros fandom, such as M. Fae Glasgo, Angelfish ( I know she's not everybody's cup of tea, but I think she's fabulous ), or the one who wrote "The high up and alive fruit". Can remember who it is at the moment. There are many others, of course). That's not the case with SF.
In SF - IMVHO - it's the way the characters become (to me, at least) "actual people" after a while . And I think that, if a writer can make you care deeply about a fictional character, be it love them or hate them with a passion , they are doing something right…
As yes, I can assure you, that to Vadim's great discomfort, Dan will certainly be reappearing.. :-)
Also, I'm always looking for good original slash fics (there aren't that many I could find), and am going to try the other recced fic, if it's online