[fic] Autobot Angels

[dragoness_e]

[G1,TF:TM] A novella of the Autobot dead who did not go gently into that good night, nor rested quietly while their friends fought so desperately for Autobot City.

Autobot Angels

Multi-chaptered fic (11 chapters), but complete, done, finished! You won't be left hanging waiting for the end of an incomplete story. Thank you to beckyh2112 and ravynfyre for beta-reading! May you enjoy it!

I started writing this story over six months ago and it was a beast to finish; it kept developing weird structural problems that I had to sort out and fix. I learned a lot about recognizing issues with a longer story while writing it, though. I posted about my travails with it back when I first started:
Progress Report - first mentioned 6/5/2006
The joys of editing.. - structural problems 6/5/2006
More joy of editing - more structural problems 6/8/2006
Another fic ready for Beta... - boy was I premature! 6/11/2006
A meme I like - dropped a snippet from it as a WIP. 8/30/2006

Comments

re

[dunmurderin.livejournal.com]

I told you on AIM what lines did it for me. They reminded me of a scene from Joel Rosenberg's Guardians of the Flame series in that they captured the same down to earth, we're doing this first because this is more important than the more personal thing we have the impulse to do first.

And I love that you kept Huffer as a complainer but didn't turn him into a wimp or a crybaby, particularly about ending up dead.

Very nicely realized vision of the effects of the battle outside Autobot City as well.

Re: re

[dragoness-e.livejournal.com]

Your Huffer fics helped me flesh out his characterization bits; if you hadn't written them and made Huffer interesting, he probably wouldn't have been in this fic. As it was, I almost overlooked him, but realized he belonged when I was looking to give the mini-bots more scene time.

((Ratchet is a scene hog. If he's in a scene, he dominates it, if he's not in a scene, he contrives a way to get in it. ))