Hee

[desoto_hia873]

Jim's known about the fandom side of me pretty much since Day 1 of our relationship. I used it as a bit of a litmus test, actually--I figured if he was going to react negatively to the slightly obsessive, nerdy side of me, I might as well know from the get-go and not waste my time. He's also known about the fanfic for about as long, but I'm not sure that he's ever actually read anything that I've written. The earliest that any of my few fics are set is mid-Season 3 of BtVS (and that one was my first and it's not terribly good), and it took him a while to get that far in the watching of it.

However, he's closing in on the end of Season 4 now. We watched New Moon Rising last night and said goodbye to Oz for the last time. And then I made him read Waiting For You because the Istanbul reference was fresh in his mind and because I'm rather fond of that one. For some reason, he didn't twig to the fact that he was reading a post on my LJ, so the conversation after he finished it went like this:

Jim: (looking impressed) Who wrote this?

Me: (slightly indignant) Me!

Jim: Holy shit!

:-)

Then he told me I could be a 'professional writer', by which he meant a writer of novels, which I'd be willing to take a crack at if I could actually think of, y'know, a plot.

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[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

You know, an ex-boyfriend of mine did the same thing the first time he read something I wrote. Men. ::tsks::

You know, get over the plot thing. If you have a story for a character, you have a story. Go for it. That's what I'm doing.

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

Well, he knew I could write well in a scientific context, because that's what I do. Also, he's an engineer, and *anyone* writes better than engineers. :-D

I have a couple of short WIPs on the go, and a longer one that I really want to tackle; maybe I'll try original fiction after that.

Go you for your novel!

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Jim: (looking impressed) Who wrote this?

Me: (slightly indignant) Me!

Jim: Holy shit!

See Jim! Not only beauty but brains as well!

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

And the ability to research Istanbul on the web. :-)

[yourlibrarian]

*g* So did that whet his appetite for any more fic or not?

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

He's not a big reader--I think he's actually dyslexic--so probably not a whole lot more. He does like the series, though. We often watch an episode over dinner. He obliges my obsessions very nicely. :-)

[archbishopm.livejournal.com]

The only person who's ever looked at something I wrote, not known who wrote it, and been impressed was, um, me.

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

Hee!

Too much aluminum that day? :-)

[ponders-life.livejournal.com]

Cool! Hey, instead of novels, try short stories... they don't necessarily need plot :).

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

This is true, they don't. Will have to ponder that. :-)

[drusplace.livejournal.com]

This post is just so sweet!

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

Sometimes even engineers get it right. :-)

Pretty icon! ::drools::