art in the blood

For the writing commentary meme, lovecatcadillac asked for this passage from "When You Get Older."

I know this is kind of a weird thing for a writer to say, but I'm actually really proud of the way this fic turned out. I'd never written anything longer than 2k up to this point, and I was terrified that I'd wimp out or that it would be terrible overall. I ended up pouring a lot of what I was going through and what I had gone through- college anxiety, personal identification, crises of sexuality and what it meant about me- into the writing of this story, and it shows through in this section in particular.

( quench the fire or burn alive? )

DVD commentary the first! I've planned to do one for both my Yuletide stories, but chose this one first because a) it was my assignment, and b) it lets me babble endlessly about the period detail, which I love. Onward!

( just wants to close his eyes and go )