Write Fan Fic!
The screen glows white on the laptop tonight
Not a sentence to be seen
A story of animation
So it looks like I'm thirteen
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My brain is straining like this straining thing inside
Couldn't keep me sane
Mind's completely fried
.
Now I've chosen
to rewatch Frozen…
Write the good fic you always want to write
Reveal, don't tell
Don't force the plot...
Elsanna's hot!
.
Get it down, get it down!
Lest I lose my nerve and freeze
.
Write fanfic, write fanfic!
Open Word and hit some keys
I don't know
what I'm going to say
Let the words write on
Mary Sue never bothered me anyway….
.
It's funny how a pen name
Makes everyone seem fake
And the fears that all would know me
I leave swirling in my wake
.
It's time to show I love drama,
To test the limits of bad grammar!
No Strunk, no White, no rules for me,
I'm free!
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Write it now, write it now!
I am one with the story craft.
Write it down, write it down!
You'll never see my draft!
Here I type
Hope no one laughed
As the plot goes on
.
My writing flows right through the keys into the screen
My words are spiralling in sentence fragments unforeseen
And one fear licks me like an ice cold frozen tongue
I'm way too old for this: fanfic is for the young!
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It is done! It is done!
And I'll sleep past the midday sun!
Put it out, on the net
That perfect fic is done!
Here I sleep
Through the light of dawn
Let readers rage on…
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Reviews never bothered me anyway!
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NOTES and THANKS
A lot of the fanfic writers here are, it appears, pretty young. But there are those of us who are adults as well. I was sitting one night, wondering how to carry on with my Living Flower story, and was reading the song lyrics, when I decided to have to fun with them.
Strunk and White is a reference to the famous style guide. Apart from that there aren't any obscure references. You should all know what a Mary Sue is. For what it's worth, by the way, I write my stories on a desktop, not a laptop…. (It's hard to make out at this scale, but Elsa's not using a VAIO, but a CRYO...)
And last but by no means least, many thanks to the ever-generous Loridhhp for help with some of the lyrics. It was quite fun, getting more and more outrageous...