01.19
I need to spend some time revamping/revising my list of recommended/favorite fics and fic writers. Not today, but soon.
I was just rereading Mhalachai’s crossover fic Agent Afloat Atlantis (A Stargate Atlantis/NCIS crossover centered around Ziva) — which is only better than my favorite Mhalachai fic Physics of the Spin (Rory Gilmore goes to Atlantis) because it is finished.
And as I was reading it, I tried to figure out why I like it so much and why is her writing so much better than mine?
And I think I figured it out. Her characters (Okay – borrowed characters) move/float inside of lyrical descriptions of movement and scenery. (Couldn’t find an example, now that I want one.) The characters in her stories don’t just talk. They live in worlds that have color and movement and sound.
Reading one of her stories? It isn’t reading in the pedestrian sense of slogging through piles of words. It’s reading like listening to the music of the words. Or something like that.
