Just checking in: "I'm ready to listen when you're ready to tell me the rest of the story."

[brightknightie]

It's been just over a week since matches went out. How are you doing? Finding something that clicks? Scouting something new?

Stories come due on the AO3 on June 23. Stories begin releasing on June 25.

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One of our insightful players suggested that we could get more fun from our community during the game's writing phase with periodic surveys. So, this year, I'll try to buoy these dull reminders with interesting questions. For those who'd enjoy a little engagement...

Question #1: Is your personal favorite FK episode the same as the episode you'd identify as FK's best? Why?

Bonus question: What do you think of this question idea? And what questions (if any) should we ask in the future?

Thanks!

Comments

[brightknightie]

>"[Lacroix alive and present in the present-day story] allowed us to see what Nick was really fighting rather than only what he perceived in his past."

:-) Continuing the theme, of course I perceive Lacroix alive and present in the present-day story as getting in the way of us seeing what Nick's really fighting, which are the ills of mankind, inside his Everyman-self as they are in all of us. :-)

This nostalgically brings to mind the first time clueless newbie me read a fanfic by an author who turned out to be the founder of the Dark Knighties. I sincerely thought the story was a tragedy, and wrote to compliment her on such a sad story. She replied, baffled, thanking me for the compliment, but sure that the story in question was happily triumphant...

[argentum_ls]

I perceive Lacroix alive and present in the present-day story as getting in the way of us seeing what Nick's really fighting

Interesting.

I appreciate your perspective. It's some good insight should I ever be in the position to write for you again :)

This nostalgically brings to mind...

It's always fascinating how readers and writers can differ in their understanding of what a story is. I have a Teen Wolf ficlet I wrote that was meant to be an exploration of grief, but the comments I got on it are all about how cute and heartwarming it is--which, to me, is the opposite of what the reader is supposed to get. Still, if the reader liked the story and took something away from it, then I have to consider the writing a success.

[brightknightie]

I don't know about Teen Wolf, but in FK, I suspect that the more canon-like a fanfic is -- the more in-character, in-voice, on-screen-ish -- the more it's subject to these wide divergences in interpretation... just like canon. :-)