oulangi (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} oulangi) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} metafandom,@ 2008-02-18 19:41:00 |
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
- wemyss: On writing: part one: the nature of fanfiction: a modest suggestion - There is a sense, I confide, in which Michael Dobbs, say, in writing historical fiction centring on Churchill in the war years, is effectively functioning in the same fashion as does the fanfiction writer who sets his fanfic in Dobbs’s House of Cards un -
- nos4a2no9: To couple or to not-couple? First-Time vs. Established-Relationship Fics - I wonder where the dividing line is. Why do we write mainly couple-centric stories, or first-time fics? And which do we prefer to read? -
- seperis: romantic shenanigans are like music, you just need to know what you're hearing - I like romance. I like deathless proclamations of love and obsession and possessiveness and rivals fighting to the death. I love the word 'claiming' used mid-coital and anyone growling over their mate. -
- isiscolo: I, who write this - I think all of these are valid 3rd-person limited constructions (although some are more awkward than others). What do you think? -
- friendshipper: Old Soldiers Die Hard, race on Stargate, and other things - I sometimes wonder if I'd be doing myself and the rest of my corner of fandom a favor if I was a little less "all squee, all the time" for the show, though... (But, but ... fan buttons! Pushed! So hard!) I think it's possible, too, that this scene might r -