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Post by Yuliya on Dec 3, 2007 16:30:33 GMT -5
I would never say that it needs to come to a dead end, though I guess in the real RS Fic challenge world there'll be a limit. You can always continue on from there, if you're so inspired. I mean it's a dead-end story now because it doesn't have a story to go with. Naturally, since it's my stuff, if I ever find a way to use it, I will. The problem is, the entire story needs to be set is a particular style, and that's hard. It doesn't have to be Austen, mind, it can be a combination of styles, maybe different ones, but very recognizeable. Intersting task, but like I said, I don't have a story to go with it for now. If you feel like lending a hand, feel free. Well, personally, I love P&P, but I can understand not having the need to re-read it for decades, particularly if one read in HS - too early to enjoy. Besides, I've never re-read most of the stuff I read in HS nor do I intend to, so I'm not exactly the person to cast the first stone. If you just want to refresh the part I used, the very beginning, you can read it here - www.gutenberg.org/etext/1342 - in Adobe PDF as well as in plain text. You can also search for the other line I used; I didn't change it at all. |
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Post by Lauryn on Jan 6, 2008 21:52:39 GMT -5
YS, I enjoyed your foray into Austen and Steele even though it was brief. It would be a real challenge to write much more than a quick scene or passage in that vein. Even with human nature being a fair constant and Steele and Laura sharing qualities of wit and strong-mindedness with Darcy and Elizabeth (as well as their being often at cross-purposes), any analogues to Austen’s era and the 1980’s would require much contrivance to sustain at any length.
You have gotten me to take up P&P for the first time in decades, though, since college, when I had to keep a “reader’s journal” and analyze several Austen novels chapter by chapter (yikes!) Pat yourself on the back for prompting me to read her with real pleasure again. Did you get anywhere on the other P&P notion you mentioned on the RS Fic List?
Another scene I can't chase out of my mind is Steele
telling Laura she must allow him to tell her how
ardently he admires and loves her and Laura replying,
"It's five forty-five! You wait until five forty-five
on a *Friday* night to tell me that?! Let me guess..."
I applaud your idea of adapting Darcy’s unfortunate proposal to Lizzie to Steele asking Laura on a date in “Signed, Steele’d.” Steele might tolerate a girl with a fortune hunting mother like Abigail, but perhaps not one so vulgar that she would wish her daughter to be a dental assistant prior to marriage. <large wink>
If you decided to set it in Austen's time, later that night, to mirror the episode, (obviously minus the pizza delivery), you can easily picture Laura having a quiet, solitary evening at home until Steele shows up at her doorstep, causing her to call post haste for her carriage while her maid struggles mightily to get her out of her dressing gown and into the latest frock -- all to create the fiction that she was just on her way to a ball at a very fashionable address.
Well, it might have happened that way, LOL!
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Post by Yuliya on Mar 13, 2008 11:34:07 GMT -5
Steele might tolerate a girl with a fortune hunting mother like Abigail, but perhaps not one so vulgar that she would wish her daughter to be a dental assistant prior to marriage. <large wink> Prior to marriage? Good God, no! There are limits to how low a girl from a good family can sink! No match, no matter how advantageous, can cover up for such a flaw! But it has potential. The family must be in really stranded sitcumstances after the demise of Mr. Holt (the demise may be mysterious, but husbands do not leave in good families.) So the youngest, unmarried daughter must seek an acceptable, respectable employment that will also allow her to catch a good husband - a secreatry in a prominent detective agency. Or so Laura's mother thinks. And for Laura it's a step up after her previous job - also a secretary, but at a small, seedy agency that finally closed its doors several years previously. Or so Laura's mother thinks... Sorry I'm so late; I missed this post in January. Interesting idea. Laura will, of course, have to live with Abigail - she is not, after all, a lady of such advanced years as to allow her to live without a companion and not suffer a significant damage to her reputation. Calling for a carriage might have a whole new meaning, too...  |
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Post by Lauryn on May 7, 2008 23:41:48 GMT -5
Hello all. I've written a new Steele story, or I should say, a "Harry" story, called "Mayfair Steele" which can be found here: andrea11.t35.com/MayfairSteele.htmlA shout out to Ace for her website assistance and for her excellent feedback and suggestions. |
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Post by Lauryn on Aug 7, 2008 18:20:39 GMT -5
Hello all. Some of you who are on the RS Fic List may remember when we did the "role reversal" challenge. It didn't quite happen then, but I always had a yen to rewrite the episode "Steele Blushing" -- but with a twist. Picture, if you will, Mr. Steele between those pages, the object of desire for every slobbering Steele fan (that's us), every sex-starved marine (don't ask, don't tell!), every woman in prison who wishes to kind of --- well, you get the idea! Part One of the reversal story, "Blushing Steele" is now on my fan fiction website. To find it go to andrea11.t35.com and look for the link to "Blushing Steele." Part Two will be posted over the weekend. Enjoy. Thanks go out to Anne and Ace for editing and also to Ace for website assistance. (Kissing Ace on both cheeks -- you're magnifique!) |
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Post by Lauryn on Aug 9, 2008 12:50:35 GMT -5
Hello all. Some of you who are on the RS Fic List may remember when we did the "role reversal" challenge. It didn't quite happen then, but I always had a yen to rewrite the episode "Steele Blushing" -- but with a twist. Picture, if you will, Mr. Steele between those pages, the object of desire for every slobbering Steele fan (that's us), every sex-starved marine (don't ask, don't tell!), every woman in prison who wishes to kind of --- well, you get the idea! Part One of the reversal story, "Blushing Steele" is now on my fan fiction website. To find it go to andrea11.t35.com and look for the link to "Blushing Steele." Part Two will be posted over the weekend. Enjoy. Thanks go out to Anne and Ace for editing and also to Ace for website assistance. (Kissing Ace on both cheeks -- you're magnifique!) Part Two (Act III and IV) of Blushing Steele is now up at the website andrea11.t35.com/Thanks, Ace! |
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Post by greyowlette on Aug 9, 2008 16:38:39 GMT -5
Lauryn, your Blushing Steele is very clever and great fun! Thanks for writing it. I've read all of your RS fan fiction and look forward to more of your work.
Wilma
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Post by Lauryn on Aug 9, 2008 17:49:10 GMT -5
Lauryn, your Blushing Steele is very clever and great fun! Thanks for writing it. I've read all of your RS fan fiction and look forward to more of your work. Wilma I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed the story. The reversal concept was too good to pass up in this case and I felt like writing something that was just fast, fun, and visual -- no deep thinking required. Oh, I always meant to congratulate you on your user name. It's not everyone who would think to combine a high-minded Richard Attenborough wilderness epic with the nickname for the cheerleaders in "Steele Eligible." <wink> |
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Post by johnnytodd on Aug 10, 2008 17:52:49 GMT -5
I absolutely agree with Wilma - great story, cleverly written and an absolute joy to read!
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Post by Lauryn on Aug 11, 2008 21:41:19 GMT -5
I absolutely agree with Wilma - great story, cleverly written and an absolute joy to read! Thanks, JT and Wilma, for taking the time to let me know you enjoyed it. As Ace can attest, I have plenty of unfinished stories lying around. Maybe I can dust one off and get it to the finish line. (If I were a horse I'd be running some really slow fractions, LOL!) |
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Post by johnnytodd on Aug 29, 2008 16:47:03 GMT -5
Oh is there anything I can do to make the horse run faster? ;-)
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Post by Lauryn on Aug 2, 2009 23:17:29 GMT -5
Hi all. I've written a new story which can be found here andrea11.t35.com/SteeleDepartures.htmlThanks go out to my invaluable team of Anne and Ace for edits and web assistance. In "Steele Departures" Steele and Murphy settle some things with their fists and a heart to heart talk before Murphy leaves for Denver. |
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Post by Lauryn on Aug 8, 2009 11:10:06 GMT -5
Ace, Taipan of chewy website goodness, has helped me to add some new features to my fanfic site andrea11.t35.com/I now have a guest book so please drop me a line, or even throw me one, as Steele asks Mildred to do in "Puzzled Steele." Also, I'm starting up a feature called Hot Fan Fic Pick of the Month andrea11.t35.com/hotfic.html where I recommend, in a short blurb, a good RS read, whether it's old or new. It's probably my librarian's instinct coming to the fore, doing picks for readers, LOL! Each to his or her own taste, so you may disagree but I hope you check it out from time to time. |
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Post by Lauryn on Oct 13, 2009 20:24:29 GMT -5
Forgive me for not posting sooner but here are the latest installment(s) of the Hot Fan Fic Pick of the Month on my website. Go here for September and October's Picks andrea11.t35.com/hotfic.htmlThey've been on the back burner so long they're really scorching now, LOL! |
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Post by Lauryn on Jan 24, 2010 22:44:15 GMT -5
Hello all. I've caught up to the calendar and have the Hot Fan Fic Pick(s) of the month on my website for November, December, and January. Sorry for being so terribly late, but I've been without a home computer since early November. I hope things will stay on schedule from now on. Here's the link. (Thanks, Ace, for posting.) andrea11.t35.com/hotfic.html |
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Post by Lauryn on Aug 17, 2011 22:05:06 GMT -5
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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Aug 18, 2011 4:34:07 GMT -5
:oWOW LAURYN IT'S AWESOME.I JUST LOVE IT! ;D
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Post by Ace on Mar 6, 2012 7:45:41 GMT -5
Lauryn's Fan Fiction site has also moved (because her site was attached to my site and my bad luck) steeleastate.allalla.comSavor it! |
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 6, 2012 8:12:16 GMT -5
Ace, that link to Lauryn's page doesn't seem to be working.
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Post by Ace on Mar 6, 2012 8:31:03 GMT -5
Hmmm.... it's working for me - just tried it on Firefox and Opera. Add www in front of it if you're still having issues.
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