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Fan Fiction - Popularity Contest or Formula for Orthodoxy?
louisev:
I read a recent commentary suggesting that authors should go further than the rating systems established in the communities (pairing, rating, etc.) and give a summary of potentially controversial subjects so that readers can go in "forearmed." But this is Brokeback Mountain fan fiction... isnt there enough heartache in the original story we have all survived, without trying to dodge the fan fic heartbreak we might suffer by reading something too sad?
notBastet:
--- 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.
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
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Hi Beatrice,
My name is Kelly - I don't think we've met.... I don't have anything to add really, just sitting here nodding my head in agreement. I really like some canons and I really like some AUs, and there is plenty of stuff in between that doesn't hit home with me, for whatever reason. What I like most of all, is being able to discuss strengths and weaknesses of stories I follow in a calm, civilized fashion... To me, it's not about bashing whatever it is you don't like, it's about trying to learn something and build something on whatever it is you have chosen to read.
:)
Thanks for the commentary,
Kelly
PS - Jeff, we haven't met either, but I'm nodding my head in agreement with you as well. :)
Beatrice:
Hi, Kelly!
I agree completely.
Somewhere along the way, some folks have forgotten why we are all here. Jack and Ennis, Brokeback Mountain and a devotion to the written word.
B
midwest-girl:
--- Quote from: Beatrice on September 05, 2006, 11:39:41 am ---Hi, Kelly!
I agree completely.
Somewhere along the way, some folks have forgotten why we are all here. Jack and Ennis, Brokeback Mountain and a devotion to the written word.
B
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I agree with you both. There is plenty of room for all kinds of stories and different interpretations of the characters.
Helen:
Maybe we could ALL start being brutally honest about the fics we think are crap. It'd cut down the amount posted for sure, 'cos I bet some of the folk dishing it out would be buying shares in Kleenex for the forseeable...
Or perhaps we could all pick apart and stomp on the ones we consider to be less than absolutely perfect. Hey! Who needs a fandom anyway? ::)
These people who are so vehement in their hatred for some fics are no different to other fundamentalists. Well, maybe they haven't got any current plans to blow up planes, yet, but I expect they'd be burning the books given half a chance.
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