So it was this story; I was wondering what had become of it since you first mentioned it.
You did two supremely risky things here: in the first place, bringing an almost-too-good-to-be-true real life person's story as an OC into a fanfic, and secondly rather than simply slotting it into interstices in the existing universe, actually arranging things to make her story central to the foundations of the main narrative.
However, I think if you had not attempted both at once, failure would have been inevitable. As it is, I feel a bit like I've just watched you successfully jump the Grand Canyon on a moped, except the story isn't a gimmick.
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Date: 2009-06-15 03:21 am (UTC)You did two supremely risky things here: in the first place, bringing an almost-too-good-to-be-true real life person's story as an OC into a fanfic, and secondly rather than simply slotting it into interstices in the existing universe, actually arranging things to make her story central to the foundations of the main narrative.
However, I think if you had not attempted both at once, failure would have been inevitable. As it is, I feel a bit like I've just watched you successfully jump the Grand Canyon on a moped, except the story isn't a gimmick.