I used to have a bunch of essays up on my site on various fannish topics, but I took them down when I redesigned, because I just wasn't sure how I felt about them any more. Most of them were written in the late 90s, and I called them rants at one point, but they really weren't; I don't rant well. I've been thinking about making annotated versions,
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an important part to remember about that, is that the narrator isn't the author
Yeah, I think this is a frequent problem when people try to find a narrator voice, that they think it has to be them, somehow. Or have trouble making it not be them, just as other people have trouble writing in first person and making it sound like Character A rather than Writer Q.
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You know, I actually miss these conversations. Not the part with the screaming, obviously, but... I feel like fandom used to be a place where we talked about the show and the characters on a in-universe level a lot more than we do now. A great deal of that energy feels like it's gone to critical analysis of our fannish loves as texts. And that feels like a loss to me. As it would, given that the former is way more fun for me than the latter and really fandom is all about MY NEEDS, dammit ( ... )
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Huh. Yes. I hadn't really thought about it like that, but seeing you put it in words, yeah. And I guess part of the reason I haven't thought much about it is that I'm very Doyleist by nature and usually have to concentrate a lot in order to be able to have Watsonian discussions. But I don't think you're the only one who misses that. I mean, I miss that, even if it's more from the perspective of seeing other people get into it than getting into it myself.
though on the other hand we seem to have to a great extent moved out of that period with all the drabbles and the weekly challengesDo you think so? I can't speak to drabbles at all, but the flashfic communities I know of are... hee, okay, I just went to look at the three I'm familiar with and while sga_flashfic seems to be flourishing still, the ds ( ... )
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Aside #1-Popslash pretty much opened me up to RPF because it was so bizarre, and cracky and fun, and I still prefer that type of a/u RPF to the more realistic kinds in most cases.
Aside #2-Fanfic about Sam Winchester wearing a purple ball gown doesn't suddenly cause purple ball gowns to appear in anyone else's story. Okay, I want to read this story though.
Aside #3-I'm weird I think in that I pretty much never notice POV. I don't if it comes from just reading such a variety of pro-fic/non fic things before I encountered fanfic or what.
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I like it when I don't notice POV, because that usually means it's working for me. :)
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You should do what you like to do, write what you want to write.
Yes.
People don't seem to switch narrators in their third person stories all that often any more. Maybe it also has something to do with story length.
I've never tried POV switches. I've also never written anything over 7,000 words. Now I'm curious to see if I can do it. It seems like giving too much away to tell everyone's side of the story, and also as though it would be harder to be subtle. I think I'm too stuck in the limited 3rd POV mindset.
hearing events retold by the equivalent of a Greek chorus isn't the same thing as having your protagonist experience them first-hand, and since this ( ... )
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