FAE number two!

[kasche]

In the end, yesterday I lacked the time for everything, not just the entry. I have to learn my way around the schedule. :P

So.

Today, it's Liz Time. :D (Also Known As mrsronweasley.) I found her by chance, when I was already beginning to abandon the Azkaban Lair... The vast majority of the stories I read there had more or less the same plot (with the due changes in relation to the period, of course), the same style, sometimes the same words. Then, I found Mint, and I started gaining more faith in the world. (I'm only half joking, here.) The story had personality, verve, featured one of the funnies (and crankiest, too... :D) Remus ever and had me glued to the screen from start to the end. I reread it I don't know how many times. From then to reading everything else she wrote, it was only a matter of when I would have been able to get online.

And then, she goes and writes Go Down Laughing. I think I still have the ending of that story as signature on Fiction Alley. There are only two James' pov stories I liked, and this is one.

Even if, I have to say, her best ending is in ...how at my sheet..., the story she wrote for the first wave of celticmoonstar. Ok, here I wanted to explain why it struck me so much, but I don't know how I could do it without spoilering you the story. (It's still the ending, after all.) I guess you'll have to take my opinion at face value and believe me, when I tell you that it's amazing. And very musical, too.

At this point in time, I made the mistake of reading her entry and, well, she said everything better than I could. So I'm quoting her and no, I feel absolutely no shame about it. Because "what's really impressive about Liz is that she keeps challenging herself as a writer. Some people--present company very definitely included--get into the habit of writing the same story over and over again; Liz has never done that. Whether she's writing a first-time story with a delightfully drunken Sirius ("Mint") or one in which Remus and Sirius tease each other with a series of increasingly hilarious letters ("Revenge by Any Other Name"), her light-hearted stories explore different aspects of the characters' relationship. Fandom tends to take angsty pieces (which Liz has also written masterfully, most notably in the Remus post-1981 story "A Prayer to Unbelief") more seriously, but it is really challenging to write the so-called "lighter" stories. Liz always nails the right mixture of humor, emotion and, erm, sex."

I hope I'll get around to do at least another one, today, somehow... you know, I sort of fell behind before I started. ^^;

Comments

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

Awwww, thank you! That's...really, really sweet, and I feel honored and giggly and happy. Thank you for making my day like that - and on Remus's birthday, no less! Yay. :)

Honestly, this means so much. And I'm especially happy to hear you liked "..how at my sheet..." That story does hold a special place in my heart.

THANK YOU!

*HUGS*

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're welcome! :D I'd just be glad if this meme was actually useful to something. ^^; Even if I honestly can't imagine S/R shippers who don't know your work. Hmm, what was Ni saying about boats and drowning people? :P

And I'm especially happy to hear you liked "..how at my sheet..."
Now I'm having a doubt. You did receive my email about that story, right? Right...?

*HUGS!*

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

Oh, believe me, it's useful. :P Sure made my day! (And Ni is hysterical...simply hysterical.)

Oh, and yes, I did! It's just nice to hear all over again, and know that my stories still matter a bit. I've been out of it for a while now. :P

*HUGS!*

(I. LOVE. THOSE. MONKEYS.)