In
Their Own Words
31
October 2001
This
is the section where some of our favorite authors will share with
us (and you) their favorite stories from among their own work. The
lovely and talented Pix mentioned this idea to me in an e-mail,
saying how she thought it might be an interesting contrast with
the typical recommendations lists so prevalent on fan fic websites.
I,
of course, immediately wondered the same thing, and so, here we
are. This will be a weekly feature, with past Authors' Picks being
archived on a page called "From
the Desk of..."
So,
let us begin...
This
week, we have the amazingly talented writing team of Jane St Clair
and Te, collectively known as Janete. They write amazing stuff together,
and here they talk about it a little...
Click on the name of the story within the text below if you'd like
to read it.
Jane
says...
Of
the stories I've done with Te, which are currently all my joy...
Well,
frankly I'm most fond and most proud of the story we're working
on now. I don't think you're supposed to rec stories before they're
posted, but watch for "Little
Gods," coming soon (or soon-ish) to a computer near you!
(Angst! Laughter! Sex! Hippy tattoo artists and more!) {Note:
since the time Jane wrote this, Little
Gods has been completed and is available on her website}
OK,
then. Of the stories that people can actually currently read:
I
like "Things
Have Changed." I already had a soft spot for Scott, but
I was really pleased with how we brought Gambit into the movieverse.
And that we managed to keep him from collapsing into a charicature
of need and dependence. It was hard going, writing it, and I'm extremely
grateful to Te for determining that we had to throw the entire first
ending away, backtrack, try it again so we could get it right.
And
I like "Border
Men." I like the energy we got from Constantine and Rayne
playing off each other. The story's a violent mess, but I think
it holds together. And once we thought of it, it was just one of
those places we had to go -- all degenerate English wizards should
meet at some point, and I've wondered from time to time whether
certain of the BtVS wizards had their roots in Hellblazer (punks
with spells growing up into quiet, grimly determined Englishmen).
Right,
then.
and
Te
says...
Well,
let's see... of the stories I've written with Jane, "Things
Have Changed" is my favorite. It wasn't the most fun to
write, the guys didn't do what I wanted them to do, it was *long*,
but I think it's our best. Of course, it might not be, but...
It's
in Scott Summers' POV. I *hate* pretty much every incarnation of
Scott I've ever seen. He bores me. He's dull. Too rigid. Somehow,
the story wound up in his POV, though, and in the writing of it...
well, I feel as though I understand him now.
What
makes him tick, why he is who he is, all that good shit. <g>
Plus, I think we made a credible transition of Gambit from the comics
'verse to the movieverse. I like the ways we changed him, and the
ways we didn't.
Most
of all, I love Jane's ending. God, she kicks ass at endings. All
in all, the story just felt *right*.
I
also love the _Wild
Things_ series. It pushes God knows *how* many emotional
buttons for me, and we really did a number on the sex scenes, too.
Lastly,
"Flesh
and Bone." Marrow is a character so haphazardly drawn (in
all ways), that we almost needed to create her ourselves. Again,
I loved the way we brought her into the movieverse, and Rogue wound
up pleasantly surprising me here. She'd been one of my first loves
in comic form back when I was a wee Te, and, while I adored the
movie, the Rogue there just isn't the one I *know*. She's a wholly
different person, imo.
In
"Flesh
and Bone," she became a person I truly like.
~~*~~
So there you have it — Jane
& Te, in their own words...
~~*~~
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