My favorite fan

[icarus]

SQUEE! wildernessguru is reading SNAFU! The story he helped do 90% of the research for. The one he said I couldn't write, because no way could I do a gritty battle scene. The one that took ten months of work.

Beg Me For It he thought was hot.

Sex, Drugs and Death Eater Rock he took a loooooong time to finish, but he keeps going back and rereading certain sections, laughing. "That is so Draco."

Hey You brought him up short. "Now this is good." Oh yeah, the boy likes suspense. He started giving a running commentary. "Percy's a real pussy."

Now he's started SNAFU!

I glanced over at him. He went from casually reading to crouched over the book, frowning intensely, unmoving as he devoured page after page. Taking a break now

"This is a good story, honey," he says, sounding both surprised and impressed. "That scene with the [edited for spoilers] was really gritty."

Did I say SQUEE?

Comments

[balfrog.livejournal.com]

you let your (mostly) heterosexual male partner read your slashy goodness?
you are so brave.

mine supports with the "i'm sure it's fine/well, if it makes you happy", mutual don't ask/don't tell policy.

btw.
Yup, Yup, Yup, and Yup with his verdicts.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Well, he's beta'd some of my most graphic slash in the past, so that was a non-issue. I explain to Amanuensis here that WG was dead certain I couldn't write action (http://www.livejournal.com/users/icarusancalion/334808.html?thread=3913176#t3913176). This is why SNAFU took almost a year to write.

Icarus

[tartanshell.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I am so pleased. I've been prodding him to read it for months. (I think he was afraid.)

Icarus

[tboy.livejournal.com]

'Course it's a good story, honey.

;-D

*smooch*

[jetis.livejournal.com]

That's so cool. I'd love to have an "other" who cared enough/ was open minded enough to read anything I wrote :)

[presently.livejournal.com]

This is really making me want to reread this entire thing. I do believe on my first day off next week, I shall totally be rereading. *happy sigh*

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

CoOlNesS!

I am glad you got a good reaction from your honey.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

That is so fabulous. My non-slash-oriented guy friend has been a marvel of support throughout my obsession, and I remind myself all the time how lucky I am--he's read pretty much everything I've written and fed my feedback-needing ego each time, even if it isn't his thing.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

The hardest (but now best) part is that WG told me in 2003 when I first started writing SNAFU that he didn't think I could do it. "Oh sure, you can do Harry Potter 'magic' and stuff, but you can't write a battle scene that, say, I would read. I mean, it's just not your thing."

I was terribly hurt and we had a blow-the-roof-off fight. I was outraged and in tears, swearing at him that this is what research was for, and he stood his ground: nope. Ain't gonna happen. You can't do this.

I asked him why, and he listed off factors: I was a peaceful Buddhist, I didn't like war movies, I wasn't a fan of action/suspense writers, I turned away from the gory stuff in films, I knew nothing about military strategy and weapons. "You can't do this."

I pointed out that I wrote drug use and alcoholism and gambling and gay sex, and I hadn't done any of these things either. I just did my homework. He doubted me. Because of the Buddhist thing.

I set my jaw to write an action story to meet his standards: gritty, ruthless, fast-paced, well-planned in terms of strategy, and real. It took me ten months of research (http://www.livejournal.com/users/icarusancalion/149285.html).

And although he's beta'd some of my most graphic slash (Unexpected Guest (http://www.icarus.slashcity.net/stories/unexpectedguest.html), anyone?), he's refused to read SNAFU until now.

He likes it. Omigod, he likes it.

Icarus

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Ah ha ha ha! You need to do the Dance of Effortless F**king Superiority right now. Yay!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Ah ha ha ha! You need to do the Dance of Effortless F**king Superiority right now. Yay!

I don't know that one, but I can do - King Tut.

*does Steve Martin's King Tut dance*

Icarus