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[quinara]

I wrote a post-Gift semi-apocalyptic AU one shot for sb_fag_ends, which I tried to keep Spuffy enough for the comm but is mostly about Dawn, set seven years after the stuff with Glory goes down. It seems to have fallen into the genre of things I do where it's actually just an extract from a novel, but I quite like it on its own! Maybe there'll be more one day.

It takes seven years before Dawn stops being a sacrifice.

Pawn Promotes
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(I much preferred the title of this before I realised how much 'pawn' rhymes with 'Dawn', but let's pretend that's not important.)

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I much preferred the title of this before I realised how much 'pawn' rhymes with 'Dawn'

Ha! That was the first thing I thought of. But yes, I definitely think this should be a novel. :) Spuffy + Dawn + apocalyptic = ♥

I'm always impressed by people who manage to tell a whole story with just an extract like this. I can never seem to make an excerpt work on its own, the way you just hint at all the backstory but it fills the reader in enough that we're curious rather than confused.

[quinara]

But I already have a novel in mind (for when the Spikeid's finished)! Maybe I'll see what happens with a short story (ie. what I always plan to write, which'll end up whatever length it needs to)... I do need to work out how the world gets saved first, though.

Anyway, cheers! I never really think of my excerpts being excerpts (so I tend to think they fail when they won't stand on their own), so I include as much stuff as possible as I go along. Of course, then you usually end up with some very blunt exposition that you have to smooth away into dialogue/a slimmed down version with the key points, but it usually goes OK-ish. (I don't know how well I do it, really, because I usually verge on the side of caution against over-exposition, which tends to leave every reader with a different impression of what's going on, but I can live with that.)