![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
A few days ago, I was agreeing with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
melusinahp's point that concrit you didn't know about and just stumble upon was a very good thing to have (in a flocked post, about other stuff as well). As the saying has it, Imagine My Surprise Then to stumble shortly thereafter upon a couple of episodes of the FictionAlley podcast SpellCast that featured my stories, and which I'd had absolutely no clue about (never having listened to it before). The basic format seems to be to start and finish with short news and recs segments, with the bulk of the show being the reading of a fic followed by discussion by the panel and guest.
The two stories featured were Repercussions (fic, podcast with guest Rachael of Snapecast), a Snape story from before Hogwarts to the day after the Worst Memory, and The Wolf Covers Its Tracks (fic, podcast with guest Alex Carpenter of the Remus Lupins), the one where Remus is hunting down Greyback in Canada post-war (written pre-DH, of course).
I did kind of wish initially that they'd mentioned it to me, partly because it's generally considered good etiquette and all that, and partly because you naturally want to know what kind of reaction the story gets in this sort of thing! But now, having listened to them, perhaps it's better for the podcasters to not expect the author to be looking over their shoulder, as it were. It's hard enough to write comments on a story, having to come up with them on the spot in conversation has to be difficult. Reactions to the fics were generally OK, although the panel homed in on the weak spots like homing things. Some of those were perforce -- Repercussions is actually a remix that assumed the pre-HBP original and reinterpreted it. Framing that led to a number of elements -- such as Severus's half-blood status being known from early on, and a strong(ish) Eileen Snape -- that don't necessarily fit too well with canon when properly dissected in discussion. (And they didn't mention what it was, so I'd better ask them to briefly do so -- as about 10% came directly fromrynne's original, which deserves crediting.) But in general, this sort of reality check was well worth getting.
It's an interesting experience hearing a fic read out, and the results weren't quite what I expected. Repercussions actually sounded better that way, but as for The Wolf Covers Its Tracks -- well, to be blunt, when I first wrote it I had an uneasy feeling that it was quite horrendously corny purple prose, and that was exactly how it sounded when read out (at least until the latter stages). A fic more suited to the written than the spoken word, I think.
Also, apparently I write like a girl. :) (*snerk* I've been meaning to put in a link to that column for a while, just out of interest.) Both podcasts assumed I was a 'she', amusingly enough -- but then that is the standard assumption for fandom, one I've mistakenly made about other fic authors on occasion. On the whole, I think I'm quite pleased that the stories can pass on that score and hence not elicit references to dogs walking on their hind legs. :)
melusinahp's point that concrit you didn't know about and just stumble upon was a very good thing to have (in a flocked post, about other stuff as well). As the saying has it, Imagine My Surprise Then to stumble shortly thereafter upon a couple of episodes of the FictionAlley podcast SpellCast that featured my stories, and which I'd had absolutely no clue about (never having listened to it before). The basic format seems to be to start and finish with short news and recs segments, with the bulk of the show being the reading of a fic followed by discussion by the panel and guest.The two stories featured were Repercussions (fic, podcast with guest Rachael of Snapecast), a Snape story from before Hogwarts to the day after the Worst Memory, and The Wolf Covers Its Tracks (fic, podcast with guest Alex Carpenter of the Remus Lupins), the one where Remus is hunting down Greyback in Canada post-war (written pre-DH, of course).
I did kind of wish initially that they'd mentioned it to me, partly because it's generally considered good etiquette and all that, and partly because you naturally want to know what kind of reaction the story gets in this sort of thing! But now, having listened to them, perhaps it's better for the podcasters to not expect the author to be looking over their shoulder, as it were. It's hard enough to write comments on a story, having to come up with them on the spot in conversation has to be difficult. Reactions to the fics were generally OK, although the panel homed in on the weak spots like homing things. Some of those were perforce -- Repercussions is actually a remix that assumed the pre-HBP original and reinterpreted it. Framing that led to a number of elements -- such as Severus's half-blood status being known from early on, and a strong(ish) Eileen Snape -- that don't necessarily fit too well with canon when properly dissected in discussion. (And they didn't mention what it was, so I'd better ask them to briefly do so -- as about 10% came directly from
rynne's original, which deserves crediting.) But in general, this sort of reality check was well worth getting.It's an interesting experience hearing a fic read out, and the results weren't quite what I expected. Repercussions actually sounded better that way, but as for The Wolf Covers Its Tracks -- well, to be blunt, when I first wrote it I had an uneasy feeling that it was quite horrendously corny purple prose, and that was exactly how it sounded when read out (at least until the latter stages). A fic more suited to the written than the spoken word, I think.
Also, apparently I write like a girl. :) (*snerk* I've been meaning to put in a link to that column for a while, just out of interest.) Both podcasts assumed I was a 'she', amusingly enough -- but then that is the standard assumption for fandom, one I've mistakenly made about other fic authors on occasion. On the whole, I think I'm quite pleased that the stories can pass on that score and hence not elicit references to dogs walking on their hind legs. :)
