Yeah, those are pretty good...I'm sure I've not seen all of them. But that's no fun..."I can't get through the day unless I know there's somebody who writes worse than me." Praising is good, but I live to mock and savage.
I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
erikaj - Sep 22, 2003 2:21:09 pm PDT #6240 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
Michele T. - Sep 23, 2003 7:12:33 pm PDT #6241 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Katie M - Sep 24, 2003 7:11:33 am PDT #6242 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Fanfic summaries that ensure I will never read your story (Stargate variant):
Daniel wants to go to a conference, how can a cupcake help him?
Nutty - Sep 24, 2003 9:22:21 am PDT #6243 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I assume you don't mean just because of the comma splice? Although a comma splice in a summary is enough to sharply decrease the shrift I give a story.
Not that Shrift.
Katie M - Sep 24, 2003 9:25:49 am PDT #6244 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Well, it's the combination of the "this is going to be badly written!" indicated by the comma splice and "this is going to be really stupid!" indicated by the cupcake. (On the plus side, all of the words are spelled correctly.)
shrift - Sep 24, 2003 9:44:26 am PDT #6245 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Not that Shrift.
Of course. I am my own institution of bad and wrong.
erikaj - Sep 24, 2003 9:59:28 am PDT #6246 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
That person is very good with the physical descriptions, Katie. They are so not my favorite to write, but I enjoy reading effective ones.No, that's why I'm addicted to parens. The SV/H:LOTS person. Not sure about the cupcakes...
Katie M - Sep 24, 2003 10:04:45 am PDT #6247 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
You've read the cupcake story? It's readable? Huh. See, this is why summaries matter.
P.M. Marc - Sep 24, 2003 10:07:34 am PDT #6248 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
My summaries blow goats.
In the alley, while kneeling in something nasty. I hate the things. I can never, never, ever come up with a good one.
As a result, I'll use a line from a play, poem, or song pretty often.
Nutty - Sep 24, 2003 10:27:38 am PDT #6249 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I don't have a problem with summaries per se -- and "this happens and then this happens", though uninspired, is at least reasonably clear -- but any summary that mentions cupcakes as the chief determiner of whether one goes to a conference or not? Only in Hello Kitty fandom, or something.
I've read a lot of stories with poetry or song lyrics as summaries, or introductions. Actually, you know, I once read a whole series of stories where the title of the first was based on a complete mishearing of some song lyrics. The writer had this whole thesis about self-hatred and redemption that was very nice, and had nothing to do with the song she was obsessed with. She discovered her error about story 4, and after that it was more openly and honestly a silly romp.