Rory
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I am an Eagle.
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| quote: | Originally posted by Ebonyswanne
Well from I see when I read a book, its the story that draws me in. If the reader only saw the grammar and sentence structure then it makes me wonder if they actually read the story itself.
In professional writing I don't see comments on sentence structure in a book review. I do see from critiques things like if the plot worked, were the characters dimensional and well developed. Did the story draw them in...
The rest can be fixed!!! And honestly sentence structure is the last thing I comment on, to me thats up to a beta reader or editor... |
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Unfortunately, there are critics out there, whom we have dubbed as "Grammar Nazis" who will attack fics for grammar, spelling, sentence structure, etc. MediaMiner, Fanfiction.net and AFF.net have them. I remember one person actually giving me a low rating of 1 for the Grammar in my Samurai 7 fic. But if you read her comments, God, her grammar is a hell of a lot worse than mine. Needless to say, I told her not to insult me and instead concentrate on fixing her own grammar, which is more f**ked up than mine.
You know, I would happily read a story that is riddled with grammar errors but has a FANTASTIC plot, than a well-written one with a mediocre plot.
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28-04-2008 21:29
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Dr. Sinc [de Alter]
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I am an Egoblosser.
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Well, if you want my opinion, here it goes. As for me, I see the "canon" term as a complex of characters' behavior archtypes, their traits and habits, the concept of world and its history, the relationship between the chars - and nothing more. You really shouldn't write fics based only on a canon unverse; it's good to throw the Team to a world or two where there is no Gallactor at all ^_^, stuff like that. The thing is in author's ability to recognize character's persona and model its outcome in certain situations, however far from the canon it will be. In the fics, you can do everything you haven't seen in the originals; but it's up to you to make it feel comfortable, to make the characters themselves, not puppets with familiar faces.
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24-05-2008 09:44
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lborgia88
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| quote: | Originally posted by gogirl212
I don't know if this is a dead thread (but to me it is new since, well, I'm new!), but after reading all of this I have a question and I think this might be a good place to post it (please please correct me if I am wrong!)
If a writer creates an AU that references canon, or even an AU series, does that become "canon" unto itself? If so, does that mean that another writer could write in that AU? Or many other writers? Could it engender its own subset of canon and fics?-- or would that just be bad form all around? Does the AU always remain the original work of the writer and therefore not to be "borrowed" even though the other parts were borrowed from canon?
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I doubt any of us have contacted Tatsunoko and asked it it's okay to write fics in the Gatchaman universe, but a fic writer's own AU would be a much more personal thing, so I wouldn't write in someone else's AU without asking first and getting the okay. I've seen it happen -at the Gatch Archives, Jane Lebak let another writer set a story in her BOTP universe and use one of her OCs. Now, assuming one has received permission to write in someone else's AU, would one then have to stay "canon" to that person's AU? It gets complicated!
I used to read a lot of Harry Potter fanfiction, while the books were still being published, and it was sort of amusing that a lot of writers were trying to stay quite true to canon, but every time a new book came out, it often made them go AU -ie. Sirius Black is your main character, and now he's dead in canon.
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08-07-2008 13:17
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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny." 
Fairlight...Thanks... I think I get to opinionated sometimes for my own good...
