I have to admit that I haven't paid a lot of attention to varying fails and other large fannish discussions. I do hear about them sometimes, mostly from
norwich36 and
hederahelix. In some post or comment about one of the recent ones, someone (I know, I know; I should cite my sources, but it was not where I thought it was and now I can't remember where it really did
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Still, if you are going to post about problematic elements in stories, I think it's better to do it in your own LJ than as a comment to the author.
I think you might experience the wrath of fandom if you posted on endings using specific examples, but maybe not. My own bigbang reviews this year have contained a number of critical comments and haven't created a wankstorm--at least not yet. (Though that racefail story seemed to have killed my snark. I find myself thinking "ok, all the characters were completely OOC and the plot sucked monkey balls, but at least it didn't exploit a RL tragedy for porn.")
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One of my thoughts about using examples is that not enough people in the larger world of bandom pay attention to me for anyone to notice/get upset with me.
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What do you mean by endings seem to be harder than I ever imagine? Maybe it would be odd to use current examples. But it all depends on how you present it, I guess?
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I have never thought endings were all that hard to write, but in the last couple of weeks, I've read a lot of stories with endings that don't work for one reason or another. Many of them are abrupt, which I'm starting to think might be an effect of big bang - people rush to finish the story before the deadline.
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