it seems to me that i have an Issue to top all issues (in stories). it seems to hammer itself into my brain, making me mumble incoherently ("gah, gah, not -that-, no, noooooo").
in fanfiction it's worse, because in original fic you can pretty much say anything (suuuure, his hair is green, he's only afraid of rabbits, and he really wants that blond girl to bite him, okay).
anyway, the issue is when something is directly explained.
why do people do this? why god, why??!? *cries* whyyyyyyyyy.
and yet. and yet.
in original fic, this may be considered fine unless you are doing what is called an "information dump" in sci-fi anyway. you can say whatever you want, as long as it doesn't drag on and it's spicy commentary and exposition rather than sounding like your worst comp lit lecture in recent memory. "and this is why character X came to love character Z... forthwith, we will refer to their Great T00by Eternal Lurve thusly..."
maybe i'm just ornery (and yes, i am ornery). but it seems to me that if you -say- why this-and-that happened and how (even worse) this character understands above event (and character X realized the Truth and it didn't set him free, amen)-- then you're hemming yourself in. you're setting boundaries-- which is fine, in an original fic (though not my preferred mode and in fact i've disliked books very strongly on this basis), but in a fanfiction, you're setting yourself up.
( gar. extreme prejudice toward information dumps and easily contested proclamations in fanfic follows. )
in fanfiction it's worse, because in original fic you can pretty much say anything (suuuure, his hair is green, he's only afraid of rabbits, and he really wants that blond girl to bite him, okay).
anyway, the issue is when something is directly explained.
why do people do this? why god, why??!? *cries* whyyyyyyyyy.
and yet. and yet.
in original fic, this may be considered fine unless you are doing what is called an "information dump" in sci-fi anyway. you can say whatever you want, as long as it doesn't drag on and it's spicy commentary and exposition rather than sounding like your worst comp lit lecture in recent memory. "and this is why character X came to love character Z... forthwith, we will refer to their Great T00by Eternal Lurve thusly..."
maybe i'm just ornery (and yes, i am ornery). but it seems to me that if you -say- why this-and-that happened and how (even worse) this character understands above event (and character X realized the Truth and it didn't set him free, amen)-- then you're hemming yourself in. you're setting boundaries-- which is fine, in an original fic (though not my preferred mode and in fact i've disliked books very strongly on this basis), but in a fanfiction, you're setting yourself up.
( gar. extreme prejudice toward information dumps and easily contested proclamations in fanfic follows. )
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