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Next door's cat is sitting on my windowsill making noises. WTF? I mean how I am supposed to sleep now? STFU, Stumpy. Just because I sat on the driveway at 3am and patted you for fifteen minutes when I came home drunk on Friday doesn't give you the right to invade my life. Stop clawing at my flyscreen, and go find some cat to kick out of my cats' yard for them. Kthnx.

Anyway. This is not the reason I am posting. I have written fic (waits for the chorus of "OMG we never expected this"). But it is not your normal fic. It is not even written for all the same ficcish reasons. Nano starts in less than twenty four hours. I've written this 'Shipping News' fanfic partly becuse I love the character of the Aunt, partly because I love Annie Proulx's style, partly because I'm procrastinating uni work, but mostly because I wanted play around with this style for myself. I'm testing my ability to capture a character like this - an older woman, a lesbian, with a life and a history and many emotional scars. I would love for those of you who have read the book/seen the film (this fic is a bit of a bastardisation of both, I think, in terms fo what is hinted at in the novel but not said, and what is shown openly in the film). If you haven't read the book or seen the film, I'd love your opinion on the style, and what you think of the character as she would exist in your mind. How well do you understand her?

I'm going to start my attempt to write 50 000 words in one month in less than 24 hours. Would 50 000 words of a style like this work for you? Do I pull it off? Since one of my character's is an artist, I'm thinkinf of the way she might see the world in colours and shades and the way light hits things, etc, and whether I can capture that point of view in words. As for the other two characters, well, I haven't really thought about that yet.

Anway, on with the ficlet. Not even a page on word, won't take up much of your time. I would really love some feedback on this. Hope this doesn't sound like begging. But thanks, anyway, for those of you who take the time.


Happy Ending
Rating: PG?
Character: Agnis Hamm, 'The Shipping News'

( She’s lived too long in this world where stories have happy endings. Started to wonder where her own is. )

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tetleybag tagged me with interview questions! Here are my answers!

1. What are you going to see/do while you're in the UK?

Well, I haven't qute figured that out yet, entirely. I know I definitely want to see Judi Dench in the theatre (because she'd doing a show in April) and I would very much love to catch the ferry to Amsterdam one weekend, and also go to Paris while I'm so close. On the list of things to 'do' - I very much look forward to cities full of British men and women to admire ;) I'll be dead of the accent within a few days *loves*.

2. What's more fun: making icons or writing fanfic?

I really would have to say fic, even though it makes me wildly happy to see people using and enjoying my icons. I think my writing is better than my image-making skills, really, and while I think my icons have progressed to 'good', I put everything I have into each piece of writing and I hope that shows when people read it.

3. If you could go on a holiday for a month with all expenses paid for, where would it be?

Europe, most definitely. I'd do everything with all expenses paid - stay in the most decadent hotels, eat at all the expensive places - but I'd stay off the coach tours and explore on my own. I have this image of riding around back alleys on bicycles ;)

4. Career opportunities: junior upholsterer in Hamm's Yacht Upholstery or junior secret service agent reporting directly to M?

Oh, secret service, please, sign me up now!! As much as I adore the image of Newfoundland as it is painted in The Shipping News, I really don't think it would be a place I could live. I'd be the young assistant trying to get out of the town and make a life elsewhere, if I were there. It would be somewhere I'd love to go on holidays, to sit and trink tea and whiskey and smile secretly about what Mavis and Agnis are trying to hide that I see right through. But secret service in a James Bond-like universe? Yes please! Slinking around being a spy, playing with gadgets and interacting with suave villains - very tasty. And unlike Bond, who is quite the fool, I think I'd use the oppourtuity to ADORE M completely. After all, to be Bond's boss means she's done everything he has, and then some. I'd know what was REALLY going on between her and Miss Moneypenny, and I'd slink in there too and join them.


If you want to play, comment and I'll ask you some!