sga rec (includes butterflies)

[lobelia321]

simonesimone's A Thin for Blondes and Butterflies. This is a great example of a fic that breaks all the so-called 'rules' (I have put this in quotation marks just in case you didn't yet know how much I dislike prescription in writing) and pulls it off triumphantly. This fic was a delight, a surprise, a lovely thing! I learned about how one can veer from pov to pov, how one can break tense, how to handle elisions, how not to quail before mooshy words, and how to make arthropods things of beauty.

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[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to figure out what 'rules' you think this story breaks.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Here is the comment I posted in response to her fic:

Absolutely gorgeous. I was spellbound from start to finish, and often surprised. And I liked the suprise, especially. It seems to me you have broken many 'rules' of fic-writing, and I dislike prescription in ficwriting intensely and was so grateful and delighted that this fic veers all over the place and works because of it. I was also very moved. Here are some things that some mavens would caution you against:

- changing pov abruptly (yet you did and it was breathtaking)

- changing tense abruptly (yet you did and the shift to present tense in the butterfly scene was so sharp, I had to read it twice)

- hopping unmotivatedly from one situation to another (suddenly we are in Lepti land and I thought, wow, this is the way to handle elisions)

- doing a lot of telling (if there's one thing I hate and have ranted against for ever and a day it is the stupid 'show not tell' prescription bandied about left, right and centre; the first half of this fic is a wonderful example of tell, all those inner musings of Rodney's, no direct speech at all, a meandering meditative voice -- and I was charmed and glued to the screen)

And then you end up with a section that is mostly dialogue: what a wonderful symmetry.

I am very, very impressed, and will print out and re-read and try to learn from this. Gorgeous and so very, very lovely.

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What I am trying to figure out is who simonesimone is. She is very mysterious! This is her first and only post in her journal, she has no userinfo, she has no userpic, she has no Friends. Mysterious! I only just discovered this, trying to dig up other fics she's written. Is she possibly a complete newbie? Or someone with a sekrit identity, ooh.