Fic: Grayson (Comics) (DoreyG)

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Title: The Sun Rising
Author: DoreyG
Artist: Lightning_Skies
Fandom: Grayson (Comics)
Characters/Pairings: Dick Grayson/Tiger
Rating/Category: NC17/Slash
Genre: Action/Adventure with a hefty dose of Romance
Word Count: 18861
Warnings Canon typical violence in several parts, which counts as some depictions of graphic violence considering.
Summary: "A rather unique location?" Grayson, who is apparently incapable of keeping his mouth shut even under pain of death, asks with that certain obtuse wrinkle of his forehead that inevitably means he's several steps behind, "are we supposed to guess, or...?"

"A resort for married couples," Matron answers sharply, but the roll of her eyes is fond. Too fond, "gay married couples, to be exact."

Link to fic master post: Here
Link to art master post: Here!
Link to Ficmix: Here!

Comments

[sfbbmod]

While adding this fic to the master list, I noticed that your summary is different in this announcement than it is at the fic post on AO3. Is that intentional?

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry! The summary I used on here was the one I provided for the art post, while I generally prefer to use quotes from the story when I post on AO3. Would you prefer me to change it on here, or will that be alright?

[sfbbmod]

If you mean it's the summary you provided on your rough draft for artist claims, then yes, you should change it. That summary needed to contain enough information for the artists to get a good idea of what the story was about, rather than being the sort of teaser summary you normally use when posting a story. The summary in this announcement should match the summary of your posted fic. Thanks.

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

That was not in the rules, to my knowledge, and seems a rather minor thing. But alright, I'll change it when I get back from lunch.

[sfbbmod]

It's not a "rule" - if you want to give away the plot of your fic in the summary, then leave it as is.

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Apologies if my tone seemed snippy, but such a minor point - as my summary on here doesn't give away the plot in any significant detail - just seemed on the surface to run contrary to the spirit of the challenge. This post was meant to celebrate the fic that I've written and the wonderful art that my artist provided. At present moment I don't feel so much celebrated, and instead feel rather unpleasant.

Apologies, again, if this was not your intention.

[sfbbmod]

As the mod, I am often required to comment to these announcement posts to request edits to a subject line, or that a broken link be fixed, etc. My request is in no way meant to diminish the celebration you feel at having completed the challenge.

I also apologize for my knee-jerk reaction yesterday when I read your previous comment. I’d been having a frenzied morning because our puppy was sprayed by a skunk and so I was up at 5:30 giving him a bath and starting the first of half a dozen loads of laundry related to that debacle, and therefore not being as diplomatic as I normally try to be. When I read your comment about it ‘not being in the rules’, I felt that you had set me up with what I took to be a genuine question as to whether you should change it, and I may have overreacted a bit.

The reason I brought the summary to your attention is because I thought it was an error, which is why I asked if it had been intentional. In my experience, authors generally tend to use the same summary in their announcement posts as they do in the actually story post. I thought perhaps you believed that you ~had to use the same summary as in the rough draft, which is not the case. And which is also unusual, because when I’m exhorting authors to provide a detailed summary for the rough draft, I make sure to say that the rough draft summary is not the same sort of teaser summary you’d use when posting your fic to intrigue the reader.

If you choose to use the rough draft summary in this post, you should let me know which summary you'd like me to use in the master list of fic.