A slash fiction contest
Hey, I've actually been watching this community for a while. I have never posted as I am insufficiently confident of skill at, uh, writing historical fiction (in high school I tried and failed to write a partially historical novel about Philip II of Spain, which would parallel the decline of Spain with the mental and moral decline of an "unnamed" contemporary high school student; there were to be elements of what could be called "historical slash").
But anyway, I've enjoyed more than one story on here, and I thought this community would do better than fictionwriters in response to this apparently controversial slash fiction contest.
Yes it sounds tawdry and upsetting but that is the challenge. "Get attention" by writing that is tawdry and upsetting while being somehow actually interesting. Historical slash fiction should know what I'm talking about (one must admit that even the "best" historical slash fiction cannot be without an element of the tawdry).
For example, by trying to write well about an inherently tawdry and upsetting topic--the results will be all the more upsetting, but so compelling that ideally people will not be able to look away. Perhaps that's one way to "pierce the core of a reader's being" (as one moronic fictionwriters commenter described the purpose of "real quality literature" to be).
I guess it makes sense that the fictionwriters got upset that their Community was Violated by fan fiction posts or whatever. However, their responses also show a startling inability to think with any kind of subtlety--a problem for self-professed "writers." Anyway here's contest itself:
HISTORIC SLASH FICTION CONTEST
From the site:
"We want to publish the best slash fiction we can generate because we know people like to read it, and anything people like to read ought to have critical standards. We want the BEST. The BEST, DAMMIT.
Since we are going do this once a month, we are going to focus on the writing itself as opposed to the obsession you may have for an individual celebrity or fictional character.
For that reason, we are going to call the shots a little bit here.
For our first month, we are going to merge the worlds of Beatrix Potter and C.S. Lewis. For your slash (it can also be femmeslash), you've got to pick someone from the Beatrix Potter universe and someone from the C.S. Lewis universe, and merge their relationship in a way that makes sense to you.
But anyway, I've enjoyed more than one story on here, and I thought this community would do better than fictionwriters in response to this apparently controversial slash fiction contest.
Yes it sounds tawdry and upsetting but that is the challenge. "Get attention" by writing that is tawdry and upsetting while being somehow actually interesting. Historical slash fiction should know what I'm talking about (one must admit that even the "best" historical slash fiction cannot be without an element of the tawdry).
For example, by trying to write well about an inherently tawdry and upsetting topic--the results will be all the more upsetting, but so compelling that ideally people will not be able to look away. Perhaps that's one way to "pierce the core of a reader's being" (as one moronic fictionwriters commenter described the purpose of "real quality literature" to be).
I guess it makes sense that the fictionwriters got upset that their Community was Violated by fan fiction posts or whatever. However, their responses also show a startling inability to think with any kind of subtlety--a problem for self-professed "writers." Anyway here's contest itself:
HISTORIC SLASH FICTION CONTEST
From the site:
"We want to publish the best slash fiction we can generate because we know people like to read it, and anything people like to read ought to have critical standards. We want the BEST. The BEST, DAMMIT.
Since we are going do this once a month, we are going to focus on the writing itself as opposed to the obsession you may have for an individual celebrity or fictional character.
For that reason, we are going to call the shots a little bit here.
For our first month, we are going to merge the worlds of Beatrix Potter and C.S. Lewis. For your slash (it can also be femmeslash), you've got to pick someone from the Beatrix Potter universe and someone from the C.S. Lewis universe, and merge their relationship in a way that makes sense to you.