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NFE Letter 2015
Jul. 4th, 2015 08:58 pmOh, this is a joyous thought - that somewhere out there someone will be writing a story for me. :D Thank you! and thank you for coming here to look, to see further than the prompts into what sort of stories I like. Well...
Good old Lewis! He left the Narnian world beautifully unfinished, open to all sorts of conjecture and wonderings - and I love stories which take advantage of those openings to explore the unknowns (or unexplained anomalies) of Narnia, including Spare Oom and everywhere else - which can include the stories of "minor", barely-known characters (but no-one is a minor character in their own story), but could also be stories of events in the gaps in the known canon, or of unmapped lands, or worlds, or ideas - what things mean, how they work...
I prefer book-world to movie-world - illogically, since I'm happy with AU stories and canon-divergence, and the movies are just a kind of canon-divergence. Oh well, abandoning logic, and continuing...
I like world-building; I like stories of enchantment and wonder (including the wonders of our own world, of "ordinary" life). I like character-driven stories, plotty stories, socio-political-economic stories, stories for actual grown-ups (meaning with more complexities than just how to organise breathless sex), fairytales, stories that make me smile (or laugh!), stories of cultural exploration, stories of encounters with things rich and strange, outsider POV, conflict (including internal conflict) and -if it fits in the story - resolution, hope...
Crossovers are fine (but I'm woefully un-au fait with many fandoms); if you know and enjoy rthstewart's TSG-verse, I would very much like to hear more about Asim, or what Asim and Lucy encounter together.
I'm not keen on OCs brought in primarily for romance, generally speaking - nor especially on shipping as the sole point of the story. Oh, and not keen to have a story actually set in Aslan's Country.
More strongly, I'd rather not have incest or abusive sex, including dubcon. Or gratuitous abuse of any kind, come to that - nothing that dwells ghoulishly on cruelty for the sake of it.
But apart from that, go wild! Have fun writing whatever seems good to you to write, and I'll be waiting most eagerly to read! and thanks again for being in NFE, and for reading all this and for writing your story! :)
Good old Lewis! He left the Narnian world beautifully unfinished, open to all sorts of conjecture and wonderings - and I love stories which take advantage of those openings to explore the unknowns (or unexplained anomalies) of Narnia, including Spare Oom and everywhere else - which can include the stories of "minor", barely-known characters (but no-one is a minor character in their own story), but could also be stories of events in the gaps in the known canon, or of unmapped lands, or worlds, or ideas - what things mean, how they work...
I prefer book-world to movie-world - illogically, since I'm happy with AU stories and canon-divergence, and the movies are just a kind of canon-divergence. Oh well, abandoning logic, and continuing...
I like world-building; I like stories of enchantment and wonder (including the wonders of our own world, of "ordinary" life). I like character-driven stories, plotty stories, socio-political-economic stories, stories for actual grown-ups (meaning with more complexities than just how to organise breathless sex), fairytales, stories that make me smile (or laugh!), stories of cultural exploration, stories of encounters with things rich and strange, outsider POV, conflict (including internal conflict) and -if it fits in the story - resolution, hope...
Crossovers are fine (but I'm woefully un-au fait with many fandoms); if you know and enjoy rthstewart's TSG-verse, I would very much like to hear more about Asim, or what Asim and Lucy encounter together.
I'm not keen on OCs brought in primarily for romance, generally speaking - nor especially on shipping as the sole point of the story. Oh, and not keen to have a story actually set in Aslan's Country.
More strongly, I'd rather not have incest or abusive sex, including dubcon. Or gratuitous abuse of any kind, come to that - nothing that dwells ghoulishly on cruelty for the sake of it.
But apart from that, go wild! Have fun writing whatever seems good to you to write, and I'll be waiting most eagerly to read! and thanks again for being in NFE, and for reading all this and for writing your story! :)
