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Jun. 27th, 2005 01:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reenkaEee, everyone wishing me a happy birthday actually made me happy :D :D Thank you <3<3<3 And if you forgot/didn't/etc, naturally I ♥ you anyway. Love, love for everyone!!1 I am full of glee 'cause... it's summer! It's not too humid! And I have a very comfy chair! Wheee! :D Also, I have a fan :D :D I mean of the electric kind =;
Also, I saw `Mr & Mrs Smith'-- it was v. good. Angelina Jolie is v. hot. I would so have her babies if she was... well, willing & able. And Seth! Heeeee. I think Seth accounted for my favorite moments, making me want to watch The O.C. like mad. He acts just the same! It's so adorable! Eeeee, Seth!!1 So much cuter than Brad Pitt, baby. Yes.
It's been a bit annoying, the debate about fanfic.
I dunno why it gets to me when other things don't, not anymore-- maybe it's that it's not just fandom. Ask a random writer friend, they'll likely sneer at you when you say you write fanfic, or at least look at you funny. I mean, I -write- original fic, man-- it's not some omg-important accomplishment. Most people who write 'original' fic suck anyway (no, not excluding myself in this). Writers being uptight brings me down. Hurts my mojo. And so on and so forth. Self-righteousness is for gimps. That is my final verdict, yes.
However, I'm not saying writing shouldn't be taken seriously; people who say writing or reading by definition is 'just for fun' bring me down too. I tend to take fanfic & original fic equally seriously, writing & reading-wise both. I am perhaps more critical with published fiction, but eh. Reading/writing 100% for kink and/or fun gets old after say, 3 years in the same bloody fandom; so yeah, it's not that I've seen it all idea-wise, it's that I haven't. Everything feels recycled and it doesn't have to be, dammit all to hell. Or maybe that's just me! Who knows, who cares, live & let live & gimme more manga to distract me. Wheee, pretty boys nekkid!
I was thinking earlier about cliches, too.... Partly related to the HP cliche community thing, partly other things.
I realized I think basically there is no such thing as a wholly 'original' premise, and the worth of any given fic is in the execution, not the premise. You can easily write a cliche brilliantly and a so-called new idea crappily. The oodles and oodles of bad sci-fi out there attest to the many many flaws with idea-driven writing if taken by itself. Perhaps people who only read -for- the ideas don't care, but me, I want a good story. I don't care if it's got a unique plot if it's clumsily executed and awkwardly phrased the whole way through. Then again, very few ideas are just that exciting that I'd willingly sacrifice any mental pain I get reading about them. I think Piers Anthony taught me that lesson if no one else did; he's like a textbook case of cute ideas and horrendous execution in my mind.
Perhaps it's that I view writing as very much a gestalt-- a combination of various factors at work within both the reader & the writer, creating the finished 'story' that is created. And I do think it's a joint process, and that no two readers see quite the same story. So basically, ideally idea & its execution should work together, and throw in a dab of the reader's own personal/cultural context and you've got yourself a story! Just add postmodernist theory & you're set! Clearly!
...And now, since I'd mentioned pretty boys, distraction & manga, clearly I have to show my favorite panel (so far) of this, heheh.
I really need to finally watch Episode 3, don't I. Man, I'm so tempted by the idea of falling in love with Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan again. It will always be the only fandom where I tolerate hurt/comfort and mindbonds and cross-gen all in the same fic. The temptation to read Robin Hobb just to write hurt/comfort-crossgen-mindbond fic and mail it to her is great, btw.
Also, I saw `Mr & Mrs Smith'-- it was v. good. Angelina Jolie is v. hot. I would so have her babies if she was... well, willing & able. And Seth! Heeeee. I think Seth accounted for my favorite moments, making me want to watch The O.C. like mad. He acts just the same! It's so adorable! Eeeee, Seth!!1 So much cuter than Brad Pitt, baby. Yes.
It's been a bit annoying, the debate about fanfic.
I dunno why it gets to me when other things don't, not anymore-- maybe it's that it's not just fandom. Ask a random writer friend, they'll likely sneer at you when you say you write fanfic, or at least look at you funny. I mean, I -write- original fic, man-- it's not some omg-important accomplishment. Most people who write 'original' fic suck anyway (no, not excluding myself in this). Writers being uptight brings me down. Hurts my mojo. And so on and so forth. Self-righteousness is for gimps. That is my final verdict, yes.
However, I'm not saying writing shouldn't be taken seriously; people who say writing or reading by definition is 'just for fun' bring me down too. I tend to take fanfic & original fic equally seriously, writing & reading-wise both. I am perhaps more critical with published fiction, but eh. Reading/writing 100% for kink and/or fun gets old after say, 3 years in the same bloody fandom; so yeah, it's not that I've seen it all idea-wise, it's that I haven't. Everything feels recycled and it doesn't have to be, dammit all to hell. Or maybe that's just me! Who knows, who cares, live & let live & gimme more manga to distract me. Wheee, pretty boys nekkid!
I was thinking earlier about cliches, too.... Partly related to the HP cliche community thing, partly other things.
I realized I think basically there is no such thing as a wholly 'original' premise, and the worth of any given fic is in the execution, not the premise. You can easily write a cliche brilliantly and a so-called new idea crappily. The oodles and oodles of bad sci-fi out there attest to the many many flaws with idea-driven writing if taken by itself. Perhaps people who only read -for- the ideas don't care, but me, I want a good story. I don't care if it's got a unique plot if it's clumsily executed and awkwardly phrased the whole way through. Then again, very few ideas are just that exciting that I'd willingly sacrifice any mental pain I get reading about them. I think Piers Anthony taught me that lesson if no one else did; he's like a textbook case of cute ideas and horrendous execution in my mind.
Perhaps it's that I view writing as very much a gestalt-- a combination of various factors at work within both the reader & the writer, creating the finished 'story' that is created. And I do think it's a joint process, and that no two readers see quite the same story. So basically, ideally idea & its execution should work together, and throw in a dab of the reader's own personal/cultural context and you've got yourself a story! Just add postmodernist theory & you're set! Clearly!
...And now, since I'd mentioned pretty boys, distraction & manga, clearly I have to show my favorite panel (so far) of this, heheh.
I really need to finally watch Episode 3, don't I. Man, I'm so tempted by the idea of falling in love with Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan again. It will always be the only fandom where I tolerate hurt/comfort and mindbonds and cross-gen all in the same fic. The temptation to read Robin Hobb just to write hurt/comfort-crossgen-mindbond fic and mail it to her is great, btw.
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Date: 2005-06-28 12:40 am (UTC)