DVD Commentary Meme
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kethniStolen! From approximately half my flist :D
Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.
Probably not the puns, I'm not a very pun person.
Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.
Probably not the puns, I'm not a very pun person.
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Re: Spoons
Date: 2009-11-08 09:07 am (UTC)I normally do a lot of first person narrators but for some reason when I write third person I don't tend to focalise a lot. It's all or nothing! So for this story I tried something different; it's pretty much exclusively focalised on Matt, what he sees, what he thinks. It's slightly more subtle than 1st person so a bit of a stretch for me, LOL!
Matt's perspective colours the narrative, because Mohinder flirts with *him* he assumes Mohinder flirts with lots of people. Because Matt is gawping a little at the 'strong and handsome' firefighters we do too.
I haven't done the 'would-be-lovers-sharing-a-bed' trope much, just twice I think so I was happy to try something new. The scorch mark on the ceiling comes from me accidentally burning a kitchen cupboard by putting a lit candle inside. I have no idea why, I'm sure it made sense at the time!
Grubby Mohinder was there both to show that he had tried to deal with the fire himself, and failed miserably, and because grubby Mohinder doesn't pop up much and I thought it might tick a box for someone, LOL!