#Author: Betweensceneswriter

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Fanfic

I’ve just re-read “Lovers in a Dangerous Time,” multiply that “re” by three or four, have fallen in love again, with this version of Jamie and Claire and with the writing. Is the scene at the close of chapter 9 the most irresistible? The scene: Claire, married to control-freak Frank, is charmed by the two little girls who move in next door, and by their father, the widower with the finest parenting skills ever. And the most seductive voice, as he proves (here comes the scene) when he and Claire are drinking after finishing cleaning up after his open house, the guest gone, his daughters put to bed, the two of them sitting close on a sofa, well into a bottle of whisky. Imagine the Scots’ burr when Jamie says, “Dance wi’ me?”  

            Another salute, to fellow-commenter reader83, for her excellent choice of “best of” in fan fics. I couldn’t agree more about LIADT and “Conversations in the Dark,” want to say thank you for the nudge toward “Practice,” my current comfort-read (only 7 chapters in, I hope it will be comforting). I’d like to add another trio to “best of” in fanfics: “Saorsa,” @scapegrace74; “Jimjeran,” @betweensceneswriter; “The Stars Will Sing for Us” @fallofrain. 

I wish I could send the author of LIADT a bouquet as meaningful as the one Jamie chooses for Claire, made of whatever flowers signify, “Good writing!” 

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4, 8, 12 👾

bonI don’t know what 12 means. I meant 13. Good lord.

@missclairebelle, you always ask and send me questions. I appreciate it and you so much ❤ also, i didn’t understand what question 13 meant too, haha!

4. What a fic that changed the way the way you write? 

I’ve been reading fanfics for a long, long time even before I fell down the rabbit hole that is Outlander - but I would say that the writers in this fandom are just the best of the best in all the fandoms I am in. 

I always say I am in awe of other authors’ writing because I really am and do. I’ve written fanfic for other fandoms before just because I wanted to share my own one-shot and fluffs. However, it’s only here in the Outlander that I tried my hand in multi-fic and different themes because there are just too many great stories here and I wanted to see if I can contribute to it in any way, shape or form. (Hopefully, I am) 

And to answer the question, I do have a couple of fics that inspired me and changed the way I write: 

1. Modern Glasgow by @gotham-ruaidh2. Flood My Mornings by @bonnie-wee-swordsman3. Written in the Stones by @lenny99874. This is Us by @abbydebeaupreposts5. Jimjeran by @betweensceneswriter6. A Wild Night in Vegas by @takemeawaytocamelot7. Loss, Act I and II by @missclairebelle

I know this is lot to list (and I have many more faves and all) but these are the fics (and authors!) that inspired me, challenged me and changed the way I write because they are just so dang good and I am amazed by what they do and create (Hopefully, they know it cause I message them when I read their fics and just fangirl about how I loved their stories, haha!). 

These are the fics that I read on the constant and still feel all the feels, the fics that I take either when I’m hiking the mountains or up in the air, etc.

So, yeah. I hope I am writing better with all the inspiration I am getting but most of the time, I find myself on the other side of the threshold and I just fan and feel with the rest of the readers ❤

8. google docs, microsoft word or other?

If I am co-writing with someone or beta-ing a fic, I usually use google docs. If I am writing my fics, I use microsoft word. :)  

13. past tense or present tense? 

I tend to write in the past tense mostly but I think it’s both sometimes depending on the situation/story. I haven’t tried nor I think I have ever read a fic that is on full present tense - if there is, send me a link because I would love to read it! 

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If loving you Sarong, I don't want to be right...

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If you've read and enjoyed the book, reviews are appreciated!

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Hello, you have been identified as An Awesome Writer™! Congrats, you rock! So that all of your readers can shower you with some extra love today, please tell us your favorite five (or as many as you want) stories of yours and why you like them and then send this to another five fic authors you think deserve this title!

HOLY SHITBALLS. THIS IS AMAZINGLY FLATTERING. ALRIGHTY THEN. 

I only have one story, “The Time Before,” and you can read the first three parts on AO3 or on Tumblr starting here. It’s a fun, screwball-comedy style romp through London on the night Claire meets Frank (let me assure you, hijinks ensue).

So, in lieu of a larger library of my own work, let me tell you what I’m obsessively reading right now:

1. “Jimjeran” by @betweensceneswriter is fueling all of my “run away and join the Peace Corps” fantasies (it’s real bad, guys).

2. “Broken Crown” by @kalendraashtar is so great. Spies! I love Spies!

3. “Faith Restored” by @lenny9987 has been a roller coaster. I AM SO WORRIED ABOUT FAITH. SHE NEEDS HER MOTHER.

4. “The Last All-Clear” by @bonnie-wee-swordsman was absolutely enthralling. I was screaming at my computer screen the entire time. 

5. “Clair(e)voyance” by @notevenjokingrightnowfic makes my Fridays, when it’s being updated. I did not know I wanted Claire and Jamie to solve modern murders until this fic showed up. 

6. And, to be crass, between “A Good Lover” by @outlandergeekery and  the latest update to “Queen’s Gambit” by @abbydebeaupreposts all I want to read about is Jamie’s fingers up and around Claire’s vajayjay. HOT.

So, thank you @gotham-ruaidh for sending me this lovely message. :)

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Fan Fic Appreciation: Jamie and Claire on an Island in the Pacific

During the pandemic summer, I discovered Jimerjan: Island Fever by BetweenSceneswriter/ Sarah Carrell. Jamie and Claire are Peace Corps volunteers in Melanesia ca. 2005. The author includes the iconic tropes and invents witty variants that are often moving as well. The turning point in Dragonfly in Amber when Claire is undone by Jamie’s keeping track of her “courses, in the midst of this bloody war” emerges in a calmer version during the island honeymoon when, Claire marvels, Jamie isn’t fazed by the inconvenient arrival of her “courses” (the chapter’s title “The Visitor,” is endearingly sly, because the reader is nervous about Frank-the-bad-ex showing up). Practical as always, Jamie rummages in his duffle and cuts up an old T-shirt for Claire to use for sanitary pads. Sarah also recasts the infamous spanking scene in the tropical honeymoon chapter. Jamie and Claire’s boat drifts away during a storm and they’re stranded on the no-longer-romantic deserted island. Practical again, Jamie figures that they can walk and wade back to the larger, inhabited, island if they catch the low tide. Claire balks when she’s bitten by a jellyfish. When she freezes, unmoving, Jamie swats her “fine arse” as he usually calls it, and she’s so angry, she starts moving, cursing while she follows him to dry land.

Sarah twerks the virginity theme as well. She improves on Diana G’s trope of the male virgin by combining it with island tradition. On the Marshall Islands it’s not so different from Europe in the Middle Ages when the blood-stained sheet was hung out to prove the woman’s virginity. In Melanesia, it’s the nuknuk, the cloth with virgin blood. Sarah’s ingenious variant is to have Jamie slice his thigh to draw blood on the wedding night. Everyone knows that Claire is not a virgin; she had been living with passive-aggressive Frank for six years back in Boston. After she and Jamie say their vows at sunset on the beach, they retreat to their cabin to do the deed with the guests all waiting outside, just as in the Highlands in the 18th century. Jamie transfers his blood to Claire and she sits on the nuknuk. The commenters unleash a flood of flame emojis, and they’re right about that. As Claire’s father, the Air Force chaplain who performed the wedding ceremony, says, “There’s something about this boy—Jamie has a pure heart, and he loves you.  I truly trust you with him.” He sounded choked up.  “What he did for you tonight was just more evidence of his character.”” I’m in floods—doesn’t everyone cry at weddings?

Postscript: Far as I know, this was first published on Archive of Our Own, the story of Jamie and Claire as Peace Corps volunteers, teacher and nurse, in the Marshall Islands. Then the author changed the names and a few story details, et voilà, a non-Outlander version. Her move is completely justified, seems to me. “Jimerjan” is “inspired by,” in a good way. Hey, Shakespeare adapted Holinshed’s chronicles for the history plays, right? Not getting carried away. This is not Shakespeare. Nonetheless, the Outlander story fits an archetype and this author ran with it, straight to the goal line. Claire is the independent woman who could make her way alone in a strange new world (Melanesia is as “other” in the 21st century as the Highlands in the 18th) but she meets her soul mate whose qualities turn out to define “what women want.” Jamie is beautiful and brave, kind and faithful and strong, empathetic and sensitive and thoroughly masculine all at once, and not coincidentally a great lover who is funny and cute and a good storyteller. No wonder he’s the world’s book boyfriend.

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Ta-da!  Now in Paperback!

Link to Island Fever on Amazon

If US buyers are interested in a signed paperback copy, I’ve ordered some author copies that will get to me on Monday.  Because I get them for the printing cost plus shipping I can sign & ship them via media mail at the list price, and I actually make 50 cents more.  US buyers can PayPal $12.25 to betweensceneswriter@gmail.com OR request a PayPal invoice by emailing me at the same address.  

Sadly, shipping a book overseas is so expensive it’s not worth it to you.  The paperback is available from Amazon in a variety of countries that will be shipped locally instead.

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Fan fic asks 3, 4 & 20!

#3: Do you remember the first Outlander (OL) fan fiction you ever read?

Yes! Faith Restored by @lenny9987​ is the first one I read. I remember it well because I messaged and thanked the wrong author first before I realised it then messaged her. It was super embarrassing but they were cool about it (cause they were friends too!) so it was all good! :)

#4: Which Outlander (OL) fan fiction you have re-read the most times?

Modern Glasgow by @gotham-ruaidh​Jimjeran Book 1&2 by @betweensceneswriter​Flood My Mornings by @bonnie-wee-swordsmanA Wild Night in Vegas by @takemeawaytocamelot​Collision Course by @lenny9987This is Us by @abbydebeaupreposts​Loving Jamie by JillianK

I probably missed some more but these are the current ones on my list. ;)

#20: All-time favorite thing about Outlander (OL) Fanfiction?

The writers and the endless creativity and originality of their stories. Droughtlander is one of the longest ever so to continue reading new stories, the updates to the old ones, and re-reading these fantastic stories are the best way to kill the time. I am inspired by these creatives on the daily and they are just amazing!! Thank you all for what you write. I greatly love and appreciate them all! 

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Jamie and Claire on a Pacific island : a super fan fic

During the pandemic summer, I discovered Jimerjan: Island Fever by BetweenSceneswriter/ Sarah Carrell. Jamie and Claire are Peace Corps volunteers in Melanesia ca. 2005. The author includes the iconic tropes and invents witty variants that are often moving as well. The turning point in Dragonfly in Amber when Claire is undone by Jamie’s keeping track of her “courses, in the midst of this bloody war” emerges in a calmer version during the island honeymoon when, Claire marvels, Jamie isn’t fazed by the inconvenient arrival of her “courses” (the chapter’s title “The Visitor,” is endearingly sly, because the reader is nervous about Frank-the-bad-ex showing up). Practical as always, Jamie rummages in his duffle and cuts up an old T-shirt for Claire to use for sanitary pads. Sarah also recasts the infamous spanking scene in the tropical honeymoon chapter. Jamie and Claire’s boat drifts away during a storm and they’re stranded on the no-longer-romantic deserted island. Practical again, Jamie figures that they can walk and wade back to the larger, inhabited, island if they catch the low tide. Claire balks when she’s bitten by a jellyfish. When she freezes, unmoving, Jamie swats her “fine arse” as he usually calls it, and she’s so angry, she starts moving, cursing while she follows him to dry land.

Sarah twerks the virginity theme as well. She improves on Diana G’s trope of the male virgin by combining it with island tradition. On the Marshall Islands it’s not so different from Europe in the Middle Ages when the blood-stained sheet was hung out to prove the woman’s virginity. In Melanesia, it’s the nuknuk, the cloth with virgin blood. Sarah’s ingenious variant is to have Jamie slice his thigh to draw blood on the wedding night. Everyone knows that Claire is not a virgin; she had been living with passive-aggressive Frank for six years back in Boston. After she and Jamie say their vows at sunset on the beach, they retreat to their cabin to do the deed with the guests all waiting outside, just as in the Highlands in the 18th century. Jamie transfers his blood to Claire and she sits on the nuknuk. The commenters unleash a flood of flame emojis, and they’re right about that. As Claire’s father, the Air Force chaplain who performed the wedding ceremony, says, “There’s something about this boy—Jamie has a pure heart, and he loves you.  I truly trust you with him.” He sounded choked up.  “What he did for you tonight was just more evidence of his character.”” I’m in floods—doesn’t everyone cry at weddings?

Postscript: Far as I know, this was first published on Archive of Our Own, the story of Jamie and Claire as Peace Corps volunteers, teacher and nurse, in the Marshall Islands. Then the author changed the names and a few story details, et voilà, a non-Outlander version. Her move is completely justified, seems to me. “Jimerjan” is “inspired by,” in a good way. Hey, Shakespeare adapted Holinshed’s chronicles for the history plays, right? Not getting carried away. This is not Shakespeare. Nonetheless, the Outlander story fits an archetype and this author ran with it, straight to the goal line. Claire is the independent woman who could make her way alone in a strange new world (Melanesia is as “other” in the 21st century as the Highlands in the 18th) but she meets her soul mate whose qualities turn out to define “what women want.” Jamie is beautiful and brave, kind and faithful and strong, empathetic and sensitive and thoroughly masculine all at once, and not coincidentally a great lover who is funny and cute and a good storyteller. No wonder he’s the world’s book boyfriend.

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Miss Manners Told Me to Write This

Newbie at Tumblr, I’m sending the same letter to my top-whatever-number of writers of Outlander fan fics, prompted by a lovely nod from a writer whose books are more available in hardcover, in ye olde conventional bookstores. Outlander blogs and fan fic make the best meals during social starvation time, thrashing through U.S. election angst, pandemic staying-in-place. Bye, Miss Manners, hoping to learn how to do this group-messaging in Tumblr’s way soon

Thanks writers,

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Yesterday in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/13/helen-macdonald-am-i-refusing-to-read-bleak-house-out-of-sheer-contrariness-possibly    Helen MacDonald, the author of H Is for Hawk said, “The last writing that made me cry wasn’t technically a book at all, but a work of fan-fiction, a genre that includes some of the most moving works I’ve read over the last few years. It infuriates me how often people sneer at it.” I want to send this affirmation to missclairebell who wrote the breathless banter of “One Summer”; and to CrossingInStyle who wrote the Tarzan story with the inexplicable title “You’ll Be in Mo Chridhe,”[why Crossing, why? nevermind, Jamie-raised-by-gorillas is irresistible]; and to BetweenScenesWriter who came up with the counterintuitive marvel of Peace Corps-volunteers Jamie and Claire, “Jimjeran” in Melanesia; and to PrairieFarmGirl, currently writing an R-Rated “Little House on the Prairie” called “The Proposal”; and to bonnie_wee_swordsman whose “Flood My Mornings” pulled many provocative threads out of the contrast between 1746 and 1945, showing that Jamie is wise enough to know that hot showers are not everything; and to wickedgoodbooks  who gave Willie to Jamie and Claire in ”Downhill” on “the Puffin trip” to the outer isles beyond Inverness, leaving behind the most genuine parent-child scenes ever, without neglecting the parents in their private time. Then there’s the foodie universe with endearingly sassy-yet-vulnerable Jamie and Claire in “Market Price” by desperationandgin, and the Charleston SC socialites who behave as though Scarlett O’Hara may waltz into their yacht-club-party in “Lovers in a Dangerous Time” by SassenachThroughTime. Scratch Scarlett, it would be mewling Melanie Wilkes who’d waltz onto the social scene that ThroughTime nails with a silver hammer in “LIADT.” Melanie would make friends with meddlesome Aunt Jocasta—enough! Also, where have you gone, hardblazesong, with “Noir Nocturne”?

 Outlander, fan fic, love these writers and so does a bestselling author according to The Guardian