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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-12-26 06:42 pm

[ SECRET POST #2915 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2915 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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(Anonymous) 2014-12-27 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
I skim ahead to the sex scenes when I first try out a new fic writer, for very this reason.

A writer who lets everyone go out of character during sex scenes, or falls back on "stick tab A in slot B", or uses porn/romance stock phrases when those particular characters would never talk like that (eg "debauched" "cum" "ravish" etc) is just not a good writer. I'd rather find that out sooner than later.

Only if a writer can handle sex scenes do I go on and read their fics. It's a tough test. Many published writers fail at this hurdle.

If a writer doesn't have any sex scenes to test out this way, not even one or two, I'm sorry to say that I tend to ignore all their fics completely. Sex scenes are hard. In my opinion, they're the best test of writing skill.

(Anonymous) 2014-12-27 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
That's...the most ridiculous test I've ever heard. A lot of people just plain aren't interested in writing sex scenes, and you won't even give them a chance because of it? You'll cut out what's probably most of the published fiction in the world just because it doesn't have a sex scene for you to judge in it?

(Anonymous) 2014-12-27 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, seriously. Not to mention that even if there are sex scenes in the fic, it's not uncommon for fanfic authors who are otherwise uninterested in writing about sex to feel pressured by their readers into adding those in, which ofc leads to crappy writing.

One wonders what's left for AYRT to read.