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thefroggMy apologies for the recent rapid changes in format; I've been trying to find a way to put links to all the important posts for Of Innocence & Empathy on the main page (the timeline, series notes, etc.). I'm not quite pleased yet - the current layout scrunches up the table in the timeline.
Since it became apparent that the series was going to be more complicated than just breaking Morgan and Reid up and getting them back together, I've been looking at options for allowing you, the readers, more input into the process. Most seriously considered was starting a yahoogroup; while it's not out of the question, I felt this would be a decent compromise.
Exactly what, then, is this?
This is a general discussions board-leader post. You can reply to this post and talk about whatever's on your mind about the series, whether it be questions of motivation, questions about characterization in one or more chapters, things you'd like to see in upcoming chapters, 'missing scenes' that you think would help the series integrate canon better, mistakes I've made, etc, ad nauseam. If it turns out that there needs to be more than one post, for different subjects, I will certainly make more with subcategories. And if not, and this one gets to be too long, I'll make a new one.
Have fun!
Edit: Due to popular confusion, there are now links connecting the stories in OI&E. They are at the end of each story, after the ~~~the end~~~ line, and offer previous and next links, and optional crack!fic links at appropriate places.
Since it became apparent that the series was going to be more complicated than just breaking Morgan and Reid up and getting them back together, I've been looking at options for allowing you, the readers, more input into the process. Most seriously considered was starting a yahoogroup; while it's not out of the question, I felt this would be a decent compromise.
Exactly what, then, is this?
This is a general discussions board-leader post. You can reply to this post and talk about whatever's on your mind about the series, whether it be questions of motivation, questions about characterization in one or more chapters, things you'd like to see in upcoming chapters, 'missing scenes' that you think would help the series integrate canon better, mistakes I've made, etc, ad nauseam. If it turns out that there needs to be more than one post, for different subjects, I will certainly make more with subcategories. And if not, and this one gets to be too long, I'll make a new one.
Have fun!
Edit: Due to popular confusion, there are now links connecting the stories in OI&E. They are at the end of each story, after the ~~~the end~~~ line, and offer previous and next links, and optional crack!fic links at appropriate places.
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Date: 2007-06-27 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-27 01:14 pm (UTC)I'll have to see if my muse can come up with something.
Thanks for the idea!
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Date: 2007-07-03 06:10 am (UTC)Probably isn't anywhere near what you were going for, though.God's Will in Earnest (http://thefrogg.livejournal.com/20277.html)
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Date: 2007-06-28 02:31 pm (UTC)I, for one, have become a bit confused with your storyline. I went back to the table the other day, but was still not completely sure I could follow the timeline. The beauty of your fics is that, for the most part, they can stand alone. So I've taken to reading some of the pieces as one-shots (the ones where the connections aren't obvious). So I have a suggestion that would easily help all of us. Go back into the stories and edit in links from one part to the next. That way, I (and any new readers of the series) can go to the beginning and read the stories in order. Trying to jump into that chart is a bit daunting.
What do you think?
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Date: 2007-06-28 02:57 pm (UTC)Feedback - particularly concrit - is what makes my muse tick. It keeps my interest, it feeds bunnies, it makes me want to put more fic out there so I get more feedback and run the cycle.
I'm really enjoying this run with OI&E. I'm getting not just "WHEN'S THE NEXT ONE?!", but reasons why people liked it, and why people didn't like it, and justifications why someone did something out of character. I even get to argue points with my readers! It's something I really haven't had much experience with, and it's one of the reasons why OI&E now has...uh...36? stories in it including the crack. My last record for finished works in a comparable period of time was 5 short stories (~30 pages' worth) in two months.
I've found that, for those of us who do appreciate concrit, in a constructive manner and try and incorporate the audience's viewpoints into their fic (I've run across a few in the handful of fandoms I've worked in), finding a good betareader is a godsend. And about as difficult as finding hen's teeth.::sniff::
As for the timeline - you aren't the only one confused. I've had several people comment on it, and a few more email me directly. It's one of the reasons why I've written the fics the way I have, so they can be read as standalones and make sense, and why I've been putting the author's notes : This happens before/between/after [Fic Title]. The links from one fic to the next and back are a good suggestion, and one I've been trying to figure out how to handle - while there are several sections that occur back-to-back, they are separated by weeks or months and have unwritten fic between them. What I may end up doing is linking the connected runs, like the original 11, the trilogy post-Revelations, the four starting with To Let the World Rest, the first six, etc., and list 'dead links' for the ones in between I haven't written, then to the next one that is. So at the end of Intiution In Sight, you'd see:
Intentional Innocence *
A Private World *
Intimate Knowledge *
Love in the World (http://thefrogg.livejournal.com/17239.html)
Back to A World Awakening (http://thefrogg.livejournal.com/14693.html)
Would that work for you? Or anyone else want to comment on it?
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Date: 2007-06-28 03:11 pm (UTC)And, btw, I know you didnt' ask for this, but I don't care for your new look. I like the format but this theme doesn't show my pretty icons and I don't like the color scheme. :P
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Date: 2007-06-28 03:15 pm (UTC)Bleh. I finally figured out how to change stuff so I like it and someone else doesn't. I *am* kinda squicky about the blue and green...I was trying to copy the green/brown/black color scheme of the one I had shortly before this, but I started looking at the hexadecimal color chart and went OOOOH, BLUE!::flee:: I'll see what I can do about getting icons back in and such.
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Date: 2007-06-28 03:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-28 03:43 pm (UTC)Sweet!
I sometimes write whole sections of stories out of sequence. I write what comes to me and if I put something off until later I could lose it. But I've never posted a story that way. Of course, I write rather complicated, detailed stories where a plot unravels over a long stretch of time.
You follow your muses. I wrestle mine into submission and sit on them. :)
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Date: 2007-06-28 04:02 pm (UTC)How's the color scheme?
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Date: 2007-06-29 01:51 am (UTC)I also write in several fandoms. I generally have more than one story in progress at a time. Sometimes I write in one, focusing on a particular story. At other times I'll juggle stories, depending on my mood. But getting back to the point--regarding your series--now that I've convinced you to organize your links, I have another question.
I've noticed that you have solicited requests and have altered or amended your storyline as you collect new ideas. Wouldn't it be easier for you to write if you focused on YOUR timeline and added ideas in after you do what you set out to accomplish? You're obviously having fun giving your muses free reign--have you considered writing within tougher parameters?
Have you seen the
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Date: 2007-06-29 02:06 am (UTC)Yes, I've seen the summerofcm ficathon challenge. I'm debating whether or not I want to sign up. I'm sure by then I'd appreciate writing something else, as much fun as OI&E, but I'm dismal with deadlines, and if I get an assignment my muse isn't happy with, I won't be able to hold up my end of the bargain.
The thing is, I already did what I set out to accomplish. That was to write Knowledge and Innocence. The rest just bashed me over the head.
No, seriously. I mean it.
I'm not really 'collecting ideas', as you put it. I'm really asking for anything that might trip my muses' on button - I have an idea for the Reid-and-Emily-talk suggestion, that is probably about as far from what was asked for as I could imagine.
I have another Mom!Hotch idea from the comments for Unlocking the World that doesn't involve the team, really.
They're my ideas, they're just inspired by other people's comments. And since this wasn't supposed to be a series, well, I didn't really *have* a timeline, and those ideas are helping me fill in some rather huge gaps in it.
One other thing I have to take into account: From my experiences with writing OI&E, it's much easier to get my muse to cooperate if it has a fairly wide selection of plot ideas to choose from. So if I don't add new ones for a while, and I'm down to a handful of unwritten stories, when I sit down to write, it's a lot harder to pick up one of the remaining few and run with it. I don't seem to have that problem if I have ten or fifteen stories to run with.
I actually try not to work on more than one story at a time. Otherwise I end up confusing characterization, details, etc., or I lose interest in one or the other or both.
Yay for easy on the eyes.
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Date: 2007-06-29 01:01 am (UTC)