the famous six sentences! i'm so very curious about this. actually, i think it's remarkable that you should be able to condensate one of your fandoms this way. when i think Lotrips, i just need to hug the whole damn thing! *g*
It is strange. It was my first fandom and I'd been a fan of the show for about 15 years before discovering slash, so I had a fairly set view of the characters. Most of what I read didn't work for me at all. I still can't figure out if the quality of writing is actually a lot better in all of my newer fandoms, or if I'm just vastly easier to please!
My impression is that, yes, the quality of writing is better in newer fandoms. Or, to put it another way, our writing conventions have changed. In older fandoms, you see a lot more purple prose, a lot more romance-novel language, a lot of hard-to-buy characterization. A much higher level of those things seems to have been not just acceptable but encouraged in older FF
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Many older-school Pros authors and fans would argue the opposite about then vs now (and they do, repeatedly, which is what annoys me about the list I mentioned!). Zines with editors good, self-publishing on the internet bad, quality of internet fic bad, lack of mentoring bad, instant feedback bad (someone actually said the other day that the "tyranny of the reader" via feedback was causing the quality of writing to decline).
I can empathize with those who miss the old days
I'd never have found fandom in the "old days", a thought that horrifies me, so I always feel a touch resentful when people talk about it as if it was better when you had to know someone to get a foot in the door.
I've never seen the canon and never will
Oh, don't say that. Life is long and DVDs can easily be had. You liked Sports Night, right? And due South?
Pretty please? You could email them to me! I would swear to tell no one!
I can't withstand this kind of pleading! If you promise... OK, email follows. But as I said to cathexys below, they probably
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oh, and now i so wanna see those sentences, of course :D
but it's funny what hits us...i remember telling ces that there was one sentence in one of her recent fics that was more on the mark and hotter than anything i'd read in a long time and anywhere else in that story...it was like pages of sex&characterization all rolled into one :D so...yes...
::hides sentences under the bed:: Anyone else would probably just shrug and say "yeah, that's nice" if they read them - but to me they're IT. The whole fandom, three years of my reading life, all wrapped up in just a few shining words.
I can nearly always pick out particular lines or even phrases that really stand out in any story I especially like. Sometimes I don't even necessarily care much for the story as a whole, but I reread particular parts over and over. I'm sitting here with little snippets of dozens of stories leaping to mind.
Not infrequently I've mentioned those lines/phrases to the author and they've replied that they had considering editing them out! Tastes vary, obviously!
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(I thought you weren't reading LJ??)
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I can empathize with those who miss the old days
I'd never have found fandom in the "old days", a thought that horrifies me, so I always feel a touch resentful when people talk about it as if it was better when you had to know someone to get a foot in the door.
I've never seen the canon and never will
Oh, don't say that. Life is long and DVDs can easily be had. You liked Sports Night, right? And due South?
Pretty please? You could email them to me! I would swear to tell no one!
I can't withstand this kind of pleading! If you promise... OK, email follows. But as I said to cathexys below, they probably ( ... )
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but it's funny what hits us...i remember telling ces that there was one sentence in one of her recent fics that was more on the mark and hotter than anything i'd read in a long time and anywhere else in that story...it was like pages of sex&characterization all rolled into one :D so...yes...
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I can nearly always pick out particular lines or even phrases that really stand out in any story I especially like. Sometimes I don't even necessarily care much for the story as a whole, but I reread particular parts over and over. I'm sitting here with little snippets of dozens of stories leaping to mind.
Not infrequently I've mentioned those lines/phrases to the author and they've replied that they had considering editing them out! Tastes vary, obviously!
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