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[aphrodite_mine]

Pick a paragraph (or any passage between... let's say 200 and 600 words) from anything I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

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[evewithanapple.livejournal.com]

She dreams of a giant who has no hair on the top of his head. His arms grow and grow and grow. He doesn’t smile but she likes him. She listens to what he has to say. He tells her that this is only the beginning and she says I know.

*

Laura comes but it is Wednesday so she doesn’t know if it is a good day. The man is here, looking. Johnny is dead. Maybe it is a good day, if Laura holds her hand and helps her make words on paper. She tells Laura about the small machine and Laura smiles.

She won’t tell Laura about the giant or that Agent Cooper has a first name and it is Dale. These are secrets, and Audrey likes secrets. Almost as much as Tuesdays.

*

She taps his shoulder and holds out her hand.

He frowns for a moment, and then flips open the machine and places it there. She reads slowly The owls are not what they seem.

from here (http://community.livejournal.com/obscureddark/96651.html).

[aphrodite-mine.livejournal.com]

Ah. Yes. I'm surprised I haven't gotten more (any) comments of "Kindly, WTF?"

I feel like, in some ways, this story is really about an approach to the series itself. (Bear with me.) The version of Audrey in the story does not understand the things that are happening - death, disappearance, visions, etc - but she doesn't try to discover their meaning. Things are true because they are.

Audrey was my touchstone for the series, so most of my forays into Twin Peaks fiction involve her. I also work somewhat frequently with the arrested narrator, grammatical style that I used here (I can think of two examples off the top of my head, an X-Men story I'm not sure I have posted on this blog, and an original.)

As for the particular images in this story, I was mid-season 1 while writing this (early, even) and overwhelmed with the new world I found myself in. I know I had something specific in mind for Cooper's 'machine' but I have forgotten it now. Maybe his voice recorder?

I wanted to keep the characters boiled down to their essentials, still recognizable for who they are in the series. I remember writing it in a kind of haze, needing to put these images down, needing to work through some of what I was seeing.