STUFF (part deux)
1. (Minor spoilers and ranting/raving for Star Ocean ahead!)
Of course, after a set of three PAs in Star Ocean: First Departure, despite all my attempts to hook up Roddick (generic blue-haired JRPG hero) with Ilia (cute blonde martial arts spacecraft lieutenant), she seems almost a stone-cold lock to end up with her obvious Designated Love ( Read more... )
Of course, after a set of three PAs in Star Ocean: First Departure, despite all my attempts to hook up Roddick (generic blue-haired JRPG hero) with Ilia (cute blonde martial arts spacecraft lieutenant), she seems almost a stone-cold lock to end up with her obvious Designated Love ( Read more... )
Fanbrats want one of two things:
1) Angst with a pasted-on happy ending
2) "Tragedy" that consists of their favorite fictional boytoy being crushed, torn, mutilated, mauled, maimed, et cetera so they can have a good cry over nothing.
And in that case, what does the reader take away from a tragic story? I mean, when I write, I'm trying to make a difference in one of my readers' lives. Does anything with a serious downer ending make a positive lasting impact on a reader?
I hope so. I know that I try to impart, when writing, a sense that "there are consequences to fucking up"-- consequences that can't be waved away with a magic happy wand. This is something far too many people don't appear to get in real life, much less fanfiction. There are also, far too often, negative unintended consequences to doing the "right" thing, and I try to communicate that one, too.
I dunno... pretend you're Sophocles writing to give your educated citizen audience its proper catharsis. At least then you're aiming high. ;)
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Heh...I'd settle for being Homer and spinning an entertaining story. ;) (Actually, that's setting my sights pretty high too XDD)
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