Okay, I am going to argue with you over your own issues. XD
But ... the thing is, I really dislike emotional manipulation. Don't like experiencing it, don't like doing it, and yet I felt like that was what I was up to in this story
See, no. There's no way to avoid emotional 'manipulation' with deathfic or impending-deathfic. It's a topic that is emotional to everybody. If we didn't feel emotional about this, then we don't love the characters (which is a given, considering that this is a FANDOM) or we are robots. I demand that you don't feel guilty about writing an emotional topic well, dammit.
And, as I tried to say in my first comment, one of the things that I did glom onto was how much Kowalski had changed, and that it was being with Fraser that had changed him, and with Fraser gone what would happen to him? So while you think you have 10,000 words of that story to tell and didn't get to tell any of it, I disagree. I got what you were trying to do there, and I don't know if you *need* to write 10,000 words on that. Maybe 2,000 or 5,000, but tomes the size of War and Peace are out of fashion. ;) (In seriousnes, write however much you need to write, but don't beat yourself up about it.)
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Date: 2007-11-17 08:08 pm (UTC)But ... the thing is, I really dislike emotional manipulation. Don't like experiencing it, don't like doing it, and yet I felt like that was what I was up to in this story
See, no. There's no way to avoid emotional 'manipulation' with deathfic or impending-deathfic. It's a topic that is emotional to everybody. If we didn't feel emotional about this, then we don't love the characters (which is a given, considering that this is a FANDOM) or we are robots. I demand that you don't feel guilty about writing an emotional topic well, dammit.
And, as I tried to say in my first comment, one of the things that I did glom onto was how much Kowalski had changed, and that it was being with Fraser that had changed him, and with Fraser gone what would happen to him? So while you think you have 10,000 words of that story to tell and didn't get to tell any of it, I disagree. I got what you were trying to do there, and I don't know if you *need* to write 10,000 words on that. Maybe 2,000 or 5,000, but tomes the size of War and Peace are out of fashion. ;) (In seriousnes, write however much you need to write, but don't beat yourself up about it.)