On Writing Fanfic Part 2 - Your Audience and You

[tsukinofaerii]

Last time, I harangued you endlessly about researching your canon. Rejoice, for that is the last you'll hear about research (for a while, mwahahaha). This time, I'm going to touch on something I don't really think that I've seen much meta on: the audience

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[tsukinofaerii]

LJ is not giving me notifications. -.-*

Technobabble is amazingly useful, just as long as it's not too obviously made up. All the technobabble in the world will not make me believe water boils at 100 degrees Fahrenheit, for example.

[muccamukk]

All the technobabble in the world will not make me believe water boils at 100 degrees Fahrenheit, for example.

Actually, at the right air pressure, it will. -g-

[tsukinofaerii]

You just had to break my example, didn't you? (crosses arms and looks stern)

It was a silly analogy anyway, written by a silly person.

[muccamukk]

I only brought it up because, when I was fifteen, I spent six months pissed at Arthur C Clark for basing his novel Ghost of the Grand Banks on an incorrect temperature-pressure-freezing point equation. My father was very proud.

It's possible that my parents are nerds