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A quick rant before I flee back to that other computer with my workload and no internet connection.
Why are there so many authors out there *cough ffnet cough* who think it's a good idea to put an Authors Note in the middle of their fic?!? Don't they get that it breaks the story even worse then their crappy spelling and characterization ever could?
I can understand how tempting it can be sometimes to explain a certain choice you've made in a fic, or add that little joke you couldn't get to fit.
I too have been scourging the reviews in the hope that someone asks about a certain point, just so you can explain and feel all smug about all that plotting you've been doing! (in the rare instances that I post fic that is... Ooh has a decade past already?)
Really I get it.
I even get that in all likely hood those authors are the younger members of the fandom and we all remember the horrors we put out there when we were kids, don't we *cough Britney Spears the vampire slayer cough*
But honestly. Don't do that! Just. Don't.
Why are there so many authors out there *cough ffnet cough* who think it's a good idea to put an Authors Note in the middle of their fic?!? Don't they get that it breaks the story even worse then their crappy spelling and characterization ever could?
I can understand how tempting it can be sometimes to explain a certain choice you've made in a fic, or add that little joke you couldn't get to fit.
I too have been scourging the reviews in the hope that someone asks about a certain point, just so you can explain and feel all smug about all that plotting you've been doing! (in the rare instances that I post fic that is... Ooh has a decade past already?)
Really I get it.
I even get that in all likely hood those authors are the younger members of the fandom and we all remember the horrors we put out there when we were kids, don't we *cough Britney Spears the vampire slayer cough*
But honestly. Don't do that! Just. Don't.