Analysis
Some teasing ficcer thoughts on this Good Day:
* H/L ficcers:
1) suck at lying about their writing (see: authors who say they will update, never do, and have a rabid fanbase that knows and accepts that they never do and yet will persist with the nagging until the author succumbs and posts half-hearted updates simply to get said fanbase to shut the hell up).
2) do not do the long, epic fic thing.
3) are constantly looking to find a new approach to a twenty-five year old relationship that will excite someone into reading it without referencing the gold bikini or Han's old lovers, but will mention them anyway on the off-chance that someone else will feel slighted that they weren't mentioned.
4) are allowed to write many-parted, interconnected vignettes without committing to write SW fanfic until they keel over from a combination of exhaustion and near-sightedness from too much wookieepedia-ing.
5) have an annoying habit of being normal, talented, educated people with no confidence whatsoever, who cannot accept that they are good enough to be writing fanfic in the first place.
6) will write one or more of the following sometime in their fanfic career: a trip to Bespin fic, a wedding fic, a pregnancy-termination fic, an old lover fic, a fic exploring why Han feels he is not good enough for Leia -- and then switch POV's and explore why Leia is not good enough for Han.
7) Write down those sex scenes in a sometimes-misguided attempt to artistically explore the H/L dynamic and will convince themselves it's for the better of the story .... which is, after all, almost entirely about how well Han's pants fit.
Points of interest for H/L-ers: sex, dark Leia, dark Han, dark Luke, Bespin, incest, sex, stereotypical assumptions of gender and class associations, sex.
* Twilight ficcers:
1) suck at networking and will favorite many people/stories on ffn that are not good and can literally leave you confused as to why you even liked Twilight in the first place.
2) do not do the vignette thing, or, if they do, it switches POV seven times .... from only two characters' frame of reference. Also, will preface with the phrase "Nobody's POV" when writing in third person.
3) take the smallest details from canon and blow them up into great cosmic importance (see: references to Adonis, Leah Clearwater's angsty rage-o-philia, venomous body fluids -- ALL of them, the gloriousness of mushroom ravioli).
4) have no concept of 'canon' or the equivilant of 'AU' - everything can, has, and will happen eventually, if only Stephenie Meyers would hurry up and write the 484,593 volume saga she's supposed to.
5) are fascinated by Emmett. Because Emmett is GOD and is forbidden to do a great many things ... 102 of them, to be precise.
6) are ingenius at rewriting the same phrases over and over again (see: bronze-haired, icy-skinned, otherworldly, gentlemanly, human-loving vampire loves meeeee!)
7) write down those sex scenes because they assume the reader will put themselves in Bella's place. First-class voyeurism, here we go!
8) are usually extremists; very few of them take the Bella "Switzerland" approach (see: Jacob Black, werewolf extraordinaire with some "no means no" issues versus Edward Cullen, bronze-haired, icy-skilled, otherworldly, gentlemanly, human-loving vampire)
Points of interest for Twilighters: sex, beauty, blood, sex, kewl powers for the greater good!, big giant messy wars between OMG CUTENESS werewolves and vampires, sex.