Pretties!

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Lookee lookee! Seraph won Best Gen and - get this - Best Plot over at the Sunnydale Fanfiction Memorial Awards. (Considering my ongoing mystification by the mysterious process of Plot, this latter award kind of cracks me up.

Have I ever mentioned my theory of plot? At least, my plot? It is this: plot is like a bonsai tree. It is an organic process that you can adjust somewhat by watering or failing to water, by adjusting soil or adjusting light, but which you ought never to presume that you control. Also, it is very slow.)

Anyway,




Also, congrats to all the other winners, including flist folk dampersnspoons, brutti_ma_buoni, elisi, nwhepcat, deird1, rebcake, penny_lane_42, and shapinglight.

Comments

[dampersnspoons.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your awards!

[deird1]

Congrats!

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Most super awesome! Though not exactly surprising or undeserved. You rock the fic, m'dear!

Also, your theory of plot ... I can't really come up with anything better. I don't think I have plots, per se, although things happen. Organically and slowly. Things happening to people (or their demony equivalents: that's the best I can do.

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

COngrats! Well deserved.

[rahirah]

Yay you!

[seapealsh.livejournal.com]

Great job! Well deserved.

[rahirah]

Things happening to people for a reason. Cause otherwise all you have is real life. *g*

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Well-deserved.
Plot is highly overrated. The characters are going to do what they damn well please, no matter what you think you've planned.

[snickfic]

Thank you. And you for yours!

[snickfic]

Thank you. And to you, too!

[snickfic]

Thank you. :)

What about your new SS fic? Does it have a plot? Hmm? *wheedles*

[snickfic]

Thank you. :)

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Thanks. :)

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Thanks. :)

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... with demons. Yep. Darned real life. *g*

[snickfic]

Thank you!

You speak the truth. But sometimes, the characters are so slow in deciding what they damn well please.

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Congrats!

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Maaaaaybe.

[2maggie2.livejournal.com]

Yay! Seraph is my favorite fanfic of the last few years. So Yay!!!!! (And any time you want to post dribs and drabs from that 'verse, I'll be right there smiling from ear to ear. Just saying...)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

YAY! Seriously, whenever people recognize the awesome that is "Seraph" and it wins stuff, I get so excited, I can't even tell you.

Your theory is adorable. I love it.

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Congrats (and thank you). I think you're underestimating your plotting abilites, possibly because you don't have some kind of masterplan worked out in advance. But Spike has an emotional journey that also involves lots of other people, moving from place to place, considerably more than just dialogue. That, I would say, is plot.

[shapinglight]

Congratulations! So well deserved. Such a terrific story.

[louise39.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

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Hah! I am totally amused that you're using that icon for the same purpose I do.

And, thank you. :)

[snickfic]

Heh. Thank you! *is embarrassed yet gratified by the cheerleading*

[snickfic]

Thank you so, so much. I have a great deal of respect for your sensibilities when it comes to characterization and such, so hearing this from you means a whole lot. :)

[snickfic]

Thank you! :)

[snickfic]

Well, okay, then. I think of plot as being the external events, the scaffolding on which the emotional arc is hung, and the external events of this story were always a bit thin on the ground. The vamp cultists were never more than a device to put Spike and Spike-let in peril when I felt like it.

But if you say it, then I guess it is so. *g*

[snickfic]

Wow. That is... that's saying a whole lot. Thank you so very much!

(I've been thinking about it. Honest! But I haven't got the next major sequence of events worked out to my satisfaction, and until I have I suspect the 'verse will remain unvisited.)

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Where do you think I got the idea from? *g*

(In fact, I nabbed this icon from you after you explained its usefulness.)

(And by "this" I mean the Anya one, because I realize I also nabbed THIS icon from you, too, lol.)