I'm cringing and laughing at the same time right now. Bear in mind that I've written a) 2nd person b) present tense c) fragmentary sentences d) Elijah/Orlando. Although to be fair I'm only co-authoring the Elijah/Orlando deal. And the first three all happened in the same story, my one and only published. (Everything you dislike, in one convenient 500-word package! Isn't FoTR fic wonderful?)
I understand everything you're saying, and while I don't always agree, I empathize. I have dozens of thoughts about fannish writing, and internet writing, and how fans connect and how it relates to style, but they're too blobby and unformed to even natter about in my own journal.
Relentless focus on the Pretty disturbs me too. It surprises me that writers can maintain such a high level of squee-ness. Writing lotrips, for me, vaporized my Elijah-crush and quashed any chances of developing an Orlando-crush. Now that I walk around thinking about them all the time, about what they would or would not do, how they would react, what their faces might look like in a certain expression, I don't do the teenage girl eck fibble gah! when I see a picture or read a story. Pulling them apart made me lose all interest in their outsides. I often wonder if that happens to other people, or why it doesn't happen to boyband writers.
Random other thing that pisses me off: book fans write Gimli/Legolas. Why? Because there's a fucking basis, that's why. They have a connection, they have moments. movie fans write Aragorn/Legolas. Why? The pretty! The pretty!
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Re: query
Date: 2002-05-28 01:20 pm (UTC)a) 2nd person
b) present tense
c) fragmentary sentences
d) Elijah/Orlando.
Although to be fair I'm only co-authoring the Elijah/Orlando deal. And the first three all happened in the same story, my one and only published. (Everything you dislike, in one convenient 500-word package! Isn't FoTR fic wonderful?)
I understand everything you're saying, and while I don't always agree, I empathize. I have dozens of thoughts about fannish writing, and internet writing, and how fans connect and how it relates to style, but they're too blobby and unformed to even natter about in my own journal.
Relentless focus on the Pretty disturbs me too. It surprises me that writers can maintain such a high level of squee-ness. Writing lotrips, for me, vaporized my Elijah-crush and quashed any chances of developing an Orlando-crush. Now that I walk around thinking about them all the time, about what they would or would not do, how they would react, what their faces might look like in a certain expression, I don't do the teenage girl eck fibble gah! when I see a picture or read a story. Pulling them apart made me lose all interest in their outsides. I often wonder if that happens to other people, or why it doesn't happen to boyband writers.
Random other thing that pisses me off:
book fans write Gimli/Legolas. Why? Because there's a fucking basis, that's why. They have a connection, they have moments.
movie fans write Aragorn/Legolas. Why? The pretty! The pretty!
Okay, enough ranting for one comment