[ SECRET POST #2921 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2921 ⌋

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

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Comments

Re: Dumb things you're judgy about

[(Anonymous)]

God yes , this.

I'm starting to feel jaded about claims of "shitty writing" because of how often people use it this way.

Re: Dumb things you're judgy about

[(Anonymous)]

When it comes to fic I think there's a prevalence of bad writing rather than it being outside of someone's taste. But it's a hobby not a profession and most people are starting out.

So I guess these are my two dumb things:
1) people who mock bad writers; but also
2) writers who don't wish to improve

Re: Dumb things you're judgy about

[(Anonymous)]

I suppose...I wasn't talking about fanfic though. I was talking about the tendency of people claiming "shitty writing" with canons not going their way.

Or when they claim everything they don't like is shitty writing because they can't bring themselves to admit "this just isn't my thing"

Or dismissing entire genres /anything that isn't lit fic as "shitty writing"

Re: Dumb things you're judgy about

[anonymous4]

This, so much!

Especially, ahem, in the Dr Who fandom.

It drives me crazy. Especially since people who claim that writing is 'shitty' almost never analyse it to show what's supposed to be shitty about it, and those who do just seem to compare the story structure to some vague archetype and pronounce it a failure. (Is this a thing they're taught in school? Hero's journey, or something?) If they said, "I didn't like this; I was hoping that x would happen but y happened," I'd probably be sympathetic, but when they say, "Shitty," I just get annoyed.

Same with 'character development' -- "No character development" so often means "The character isn't doing what I want him/her to do." Why is 'character development' treated as the holy grail of story telling? It isn't the only way to drive a story forward; in some types of story, it's superfluous*. And if you're writing a long running TV series, and you need to keep the characters in character, you're almost bound to have them 'develop' and revert to type, 'develop' and revert to type... But is that really so unrealistic? In real life, people learn lessons all the time and then, after a while/under stress, go back to their comfort zone.

* Fanfic is generally about 'character development'; canon doesn't have to be.