This annoys me all the time as well! Like, I tried to cowrite something with somebody once (it died of procrastination) but we had one through-line and just stuck it in googledocs and edited it simultaneously while talking about it on msn. Fic is not RP!
I've always been of the opinion that you post the logs as logs, or you rewrite the thing into fic- restructuring logs directly into fic always comes out wrong to me :V
I think what bugs me the most is that it's clearly obvious they can write, and they can write well. Spelling and grammar I had no real complaints with, OCs were decent enough without stealing the show, and characters were more or less IC. They only real problem with it was that there were two of them writing it. That was it. That was the only thing that made the fic unbearable. There were two of them writing it and they couldn't be bothered to edit so that it wasn't poke-in-the-eye obvious. *sigh*
If the glass has caused any problems, they are the non-painful kind because I am unaware of them. ^_^
We're in Character A's head--No, we're in Character B's head! Wait, now it's back to Character A-
The weird thing is, there are a lot of romance novels written like that (close third narration moving back and forth between the hero and the heroine, so that each scene contains bits from both of their povs). It's apparently called third person dual pov.
There are a few romance novelists who can make it work for me, but in fic it almost always give me that "RP transcript we couldn't be bothered to edit" feeling. I suspect you're right, and it's the repetition/redundancy factor -- when a single author is doing the back-and-forth pov dance on purpose it usually flows a little more smoothly. I still prefer normal close third, though. And when the shifting pov encompasses more than two characters, I want to thwap the author and tell them to just write third person omniscient already.
Gah, I'm a mod at an archive and now have to check 150k words of this because someone reported it. I can deal with shifting POVs just fine, though. What really annoys me is that things that happen at the same time aren't in the same place. It's just not possible to read fluently when you have to go back every few sentences and stop to piece together the scene. Rinse, repeat.
I'm really not against posting RPGs as fanfic, I just wish people would edit. Otherwise I'll just think they're lazy.
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Author 376 have been writing this round robin thing, but it *stays* on our journals and doesn't get posted as fic.
No problems with the glass, I take it?
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If the glass has caused any problems, they are the non-painful kind because I am unaware of them. ^_^
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The weird thing is, there are a lot of romance novels written like that (close third narration moving back and forth between the hero and the heroine, so that each scene contains bits from both of their povs). It's apparently called third person dual pov.
There are a few romance novelists who can make it work for me, but in fic it almost always give me that "RP transcript we couldn't be bothered to edit" feeling. I suspect you're right, and it's the repetition/redundancy factor -- when a single author is doing the back-and-forth pov dance on purpose it usually flows a little more smoothly. I still prefer normal close third, though. And when the shifting pov encompasses more than two characters, I want to thwap the author and tell them to just write third person omniscient already.
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I'm really not against posting RPGs as fanfic, I just wish people would edit. Otherwise I'll just think they're lazy.
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