Fanwriting: Weekend 2 Word Counts

Friday's Word Count:

202 (c. 1, draft, plus 1 page of backbone [not counted] for the dream sequence from c. 2)

Saturday's Word Count:

0 (c. 1, draft, plus two pages of backbone [not counted] for c. 1, sc. 3 and a complete dialogue backbone [not counted] for a Legend of Korra shortfic, tentatively titled "Keeping Up Appearances")

Sunday's Word Count:

1255 (c. 1, draft); 100 (draft of a Dark Oracle drabble, tentatively titled "Disprized Love")

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This weekend's work brings me to the end of scene three of four in chapter one. Backboning things out first does seem to help me keep the exposition down -- I've pushed a lot of stuff off into future chapters rather than dump it all here, which can only help.

Fanfiction: Disprized Love (Dark Oracle)

Title: Drabble: Disprized Love
Fandom: Dark Oracle
Character(s): Cally, Lance
Pairing(s): Cally/OC as background
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Warnings: Set post-series.
A/N: This is a character drabble, developed as I worked out some post-series headcanon for the characters as part of writing True Callings, my season 3 novel. Concrit welcomed with a subscription to said developing novel (if you dare ...).

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      Cally hates it when Lance pretends to forget her dates' names and says "Emmett" instead: How's, um, Emmett? and Emmett visiting again? and Emmett -- I mean Allan -- left another message; give him your cell number already!

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Fandom: In defense of superheroes

Tom Hiddleston, of all people, has a piece in The Guardian's film blog defending the blockbuster superhero film as art, quoting Harold Pinter and displaying a not-inconsiderable understanding of the western literary tradition:

Superhero movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned

(Headline provided by the blog editor, obviously.) Hiddleston preaches to the choir of my f-list, of course, but the piece is worth reading. (Can you tell this man took a double first in classics from Cambridge? I think I'm in love ...)