[ SECRET POST #3061 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3061 ⌋

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

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[Spec Ops: The Line]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

lol what is this thread.

Here's a serious response anyway. I don't think using first-hand accounts to help fiction be more realistic is inherently bad. It's the same thing we do with any war fiction on a much larger scale. We look at diaries of soldiers from WWI and WWII all the time, don't we? If we're going to portray fictional versions of war, I think it being emotionally accurate is important.

Tone matters, too. Are you writing a Spec Ops parody where the guys throwing up is played for laughs? I doubt it considering the tone of the game. The game itself takes war seriously and if the fiction takes the same tone, there's no reason it can't be both entertainment and meaningful. Not all "entertainment" is fluffy fun.

[(Anonymous)]

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Oh, I don't think it's inherently bad to use firsthand accounts. On the contrary. It was just the initial glee I felt at seeing it made me kind of disgusted with myself.

I also can't help but feel that, on some level, I'm trivializing the deaths of those people and the trauma of those soldiers considering I'm just writing a fanfic rather than an actual novel or a research paper or something impactful.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd have to disagree with you there: I think it's trivializing fiction to say it can't be impactful! Fanfiction or not.

Analyzing where the glee came from might help withe the guilt. Was it because you were happy to see the train wreck? It doesn't sound like it. More like you finally found a first-hand account that would help with your story's accuracy... and is your story being accurate a bad thing? Especially if it's about Spec Ops where the entire point is driving in how horrible war is? If the overall goal is to give the story more meaning, keeping the same point, I don't think that's bad either.

[(Anonymous)]

"More like you finally found a first-hand account that would help with your story's accuracy"

I think that was it.

I guess it's just that I can't help but wonder if they would be insulted with what I'm doing with the account?

I didn't mean that fiction in general couldn't be impactful. A lot of great films and novels draw on the experiences of soldiers after all.

But I do wonder if they would feel less enthused if it were for a fanfiction of a video game.