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Fan Fiction - Popularity Contest or Formula for Orthodoxy?
RouxB:
Welcome Lori and thank you for giving us your perspective-I echo many of your sentiments.
roux
Beatrice:
Perhaps I'm a crazy person, but I look at the skill of the writer first. Is the prose compelling, well crafted and interesting? Does the plot move forward, is it original? Is there a connection made betweeen characters and reader? If the answer to any of those questions is no, then I move on.
Granted, I really don't have much spare time to read, but I do try. Most are dropped because of the amatuerish style of writing, or the total lack of plot.
Any writer, if he/she is good enough can make the reader believe, move them outside their comfort zone and take them on a journey that they never knew they wished to embark upon. Those writers in this fandom are few and far between. And the loyal readers of these fics stay not because of high schoolesque cliches, (which abound in this fandom) but because the writer is a storyteller in the true sense of the word.
I applaud any writer who can touch someone else with their vision.
B
Jeff Wrangler:
It makes me sad to read that, apparently, some people are (figuratively) turning up their noses at certain types of fanfic. :-\ :(
I mean, "Hunh?" Doesn't it just come down to a matter of taste? And to each of us bringing our own life experiences to the fanfic, just as we bring our own life experiences to Annie Proulx's story and to the film?
I've written a couple of canon stories (short, stand-alone) because something in me compelled me to write them. Then I turned, almost with a sense of embarrassment, to writing a couple of AU stories, and for much the same reason--something in me compelled me to write them. If I don't read "moving on Ennis" stories, it's only because for a complex combination of reasons I can't emotionally deal with the idea of Ennis moving on. Someone who's judgment I trust and respect tells me the "Laramie Saga" is wonderful. Have I read it? No. Will I read it? I don't expect to. Do I disdain it? Heck no. It's just not for me--for reasons that I mentioned above.
Ol' Brokeback is a pretty big mountain. There ought to be room for everybody.
mvansand76:
--- Quote from: Beatrice on September 04, 2006, 11:31:20 am ---Perhaps I'm a crazy person, but I look at the skill of the writer first. Is the prose compelling, well crafted and interesting? Does the plot move forward, is it original? Is there a connection made betweeen characters and reader? If the answer to any of those questions is no, then I move on.
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Nah, you are not crazy! I look at it the same way, if the style or dialogue or storyline does not appeal to me, I simply stop reading and move on to something else.
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: mvansand76 on September 04, 2006, 05:00:46 pm --- I look at it the same way, if the style or dialogue or storyline does not appeal to me, I simply stop reading and move on to something else.
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That's a much better yardstick than "is this a type that I've decided I don't read? It is? Then screw the quality - I'm not reading it." Unfortunately, the latter seems to be the norm.
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