sustaining a story - with, you know, an actual plot - is so much harder than doing ficlets and drabbles.
Oooooh yes. Hence all the ficlets and very few multi-part stories on my list. (Though having said that, I'm about to start posting a multi-part fic, though that's mostly because I'm running out of time for a deadline...)
Her/It works so beautifully in both comedic and dramatic stories.
And that's another problem in writing her. I don't feel entirely right using any pronoun at all for Illyria. (Especially after the Angel comics reduced her to kissing male characters and wanting babies.)
Btw- I'm not a fan of horror or zombie movies either so I wasn't aware of the specific references here in that regard, but that didn't stop me from enjoying the story. I always appreciate those sorts of things in stories - if I recognize the layers, then great; if not, no worries, it's still a good story.
Heh. This isn't really much of a crossover, I'm just calling it that so I don't have to call the backstory a blatant theft. :) Aside from the idea of the military dealing with a localized outbreak in Kentucky by nuking Louisville, which spreads the zombie apocalypse across the entire country via acid rain, there's really not much of Return Of The Living Dead in here.
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Oooooh yes. Hence all the ficlets and very few multi-part stories on my list. (Though having said that, I'm about to start posting a multi-part fic, though that's mostly because I'm running out of time for a deadline...)
Her/It works so beautifully in both comedic and dramatic stories.
And that's another problem in writing her. I don't feel entirely right using any pronoun at all for Illyria. (Especially after the Angel comics reduced her to kissing male characters and wanting babies.)
Btw- I'm not a fan of horror or zombie movies either so I wasn't aware of the specific references here in that regard, but that didn't stop me from enjoying the story. I always appreciate those sorts of things in stories - if I recognize the layers, then great; if not, no worries, it's still a good story.
Heh. This isn't really much of a crossover, I'm just calling it that so I don't have to call the backstory a blatant theft. :) Aside from the idea of the military dealing with a localized outbreak in Kentucky by nuking Louisville, which spreads the zombie apocalypse across the entire country via acid rain, there's really not much of Return Of The Living Dead in here.