it all returns to nothing, it all comes tumbling down

 Title: Down South Jukin’

Author: starling-night
Rating: PG-13
Warnings:  Language, excessive Australianness, ridiculous jokes about Australianness, barbecue shapes, US!envy, tall poppy syndrome
Length: 2,800~
Genre: Humor, gen.
Characters: Dean, Sam, Bobby
Summary: An AU in which Sam and Dean swear a lot, drive a Holden, call each other mate, hunt drop bears, and complain about America - or at least Dean does. It seems Sam’s been having trouble with the whole national pride thing lately, though that’s nothing a bit of footy won’t fix…right? Right.

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 Title: have a good life, do it for me

Author: starling-night
Rating: PG-13
Length:  ~9,500
Characters: Jess, Dean, Sam, Castiel, OFC
Summary: Jess is brought back to a world that’s moved on without her, and the only thing she can think of to do is find Sam. Still, that’s easier said than done. Takes place during s6.

 

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 And another fic! Trying to finish all this stuff before school starts...

Title: The Taste Of Flames
Fandom: Phoenix Wright - Ace Attorney
Genre: Psychological, Angst
Summary: When Nick loses his badge, Maya is determined to help him recover it. Whatever the price, she’s willing to pay it, even if that means letting an old enemy in – and by then it’s too late to turn back. Maya/Phoenix, of a sort.
Characters: Maya Fey, Phoenix Wright, Dahlia Hawthorne, Mia Fey, Pearl Fey

( Maya reflects that it must be an example of some twisted humour on the world’s part that the worst thing possible had to happen on such an absolutely perfect day... )

In terms of writing, of course.

So here on the internets I've noticed that many literary analysis people severely dislike writing done in first person present tense. I can see why this would be a problem - it can be severely misused.
So then of course I wondered if I was doing it wrong. So I go to my ff.net page, and...well, let's look at the figures.

First person: 7
Third person: 10

Not bad, but...

Present tense: 13
Past tense: 4

First person present: 6
Third person past: 2

(The rest are third person present or first person past.)

I don't know, but the FPPS style is just so easy and natural for me that it's difficult to make myself write in other styles. This is likely to be a problem, because 'easy and natural' does not equal 'actual good writing'. It just means I don't get writers' block as much with that style, or have problems imagining what I'm going to say.

So. I've been vaguely trying to wean myself off first person. My more recent stories are all in third person. But I'm currently writing a fic about Rena's perspective of Onikakushi-hen, and I tried so hard, but I couldn't imagine it in anything but first person, and so I went 'OK but it has to be past tense', but then it was crap and I changed it, and now I'm justifying it being FPPS with the fact that the visual novels are like that...eh. It's gotta stop sometime, but I don't even know. I'm not even concretely sure what the problems with FPPS are, so not enough motivation to change, either.

Title – Faith, Hope, Love
Author – Starling-Night
Genre - Psychological, Drama
Rating – 16+
Status - Oneshot
Pairing – Phoenix/Maya...or not.
Spoilers – All games
Summary - First, he lost his badge. Then he lost Maya. And now Phoenix Wright will do anything at all to get her back, because he has faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love. Darkfic.

Title: Not Yet
Fandom: Ace Attorney
Character: Godot, Mia, Phoenix
Pairing: Onesided (kind of) Godot/Mia
Genre: Angst, etc
Summary: When he learns that Mia Fey is dead, Godot refuses to cry. After all, a lawyer can only cry when it's all over, right? But maybe, just maybe, Diego Armando hasn't been completely burnt away into ash. Not yet.

( Diego Armando lived on for a short while after he came back from the dead... )

A Citie Watche Fanfic, set in the Discworlde.

 

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