And more, more, still more!

Yes, yes!

Oh yeah. Richard and Alec are lovely!

And complex. There aren't enough complex characters out there.

Seconded!

seconded.

seconded.

Second.

Preferably some more formative years, where she gets the chip on her shoulder re: Katherine.

Also, something about Michael Godwin between where he is left in Swordspoint and where we pick him up in TPOTS. Perhaps something about that duel?

He was a bit late in the season, owing to a storm or two at sea . . . but yes, he did arrive eventually, and partnered her once, twice . . . maybe even three times. Indeed, I think it was probably three. And then - and then - but dear me, will you look at the time!

Re-ally? Why? And what? It's a big damn universe, as I understand it.

You interest me strangely......

No, no - Tamara de Lempicka is fantastic!! What a cool idea!

Seconded!

That's a very, very interesting question which I don't think I can answer without first asking another question: What impels a person to write a particular fanfiction?

Is it loving an author's work (or characters) so much that you want there to be more of it (or them) and the only way you can get it is to write it yourself? Or is it finding a certain style just comes easily to your pen? Or what?

I'm not being disingenuous here; I haven't written anything anyone could consider fanfiction since I was about 15 (and tried to write myself into some Earthsea stuff because I desired it with a great and burning desire - oh, and there was that starship full of teenage girls who regularly kicked the Enterprise's butt that my friends & I all wrote in Junior High for each other) - I consider that sort of fic to be an Apprentice stage that many young writers go through - kind of like they used to make art students go to the Louvre and copying paintings to pick up technique (and soak in the Good Stuff) until you're ready to create your own Masterwork. And I certainly can understand just loving to play in someone else's world. Like, a lot. In my actressy way, there are books I'd gladly spend an evening live roleplaying. Writing, though....?

Unlike, say, Mme. Astolat, who seems to have the creative power of ten, I can barely manage to get my own made-up stuff down on paper, much less squeeze in playing with someone else's - and, control freak that I am, I just like owning it all and making my own rules.

Thank you for giving me the chance to think about this and write it all down. I do suspect I have an answer to your question, and will reply at greater length when I hear back from those more wise in the ways of fanfic, and willing to instruct me.

Oh, you dog! It's not like I don't have scads of pages of this that never went anywhere - someday I should pull them out and see if 20 - no, 30 - more years of writing experience have finally readied me to pull them all into some palpable shape. Because you ask.

Yes. Well put.

I'd also like the Jessica novel that comes between TPOTS and FOTK.