[ SECRET POST #3120 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3120 ⌋

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

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: Things you wish fanfic authors would/wouldn't do

[(Anonymous)]

If I ever have to read another Supernatural fic that has characters making cross-country drives in unrealistic time spans just because the author couldn't be bothered to open Google Maps....well, I'll probably be fine. But peeved. (In fairness, the show makes the same mistake.)

Re: Things you wish fanfic authors would/wouldn't do

[(Anonymous)]

Oh come on, in television everyone moves at the speed the plot requires them to. You can bet if the canon needed them to travel 1000miles in two hours, they'd still manage it. That is one peeve that really needs to die.

Re: Things you wish fanfic authors would/wouldn't do

[(Anonymous)]

In television, sure. Whatever, it's plot, it's lazy writing, whatever. But I'm talking about fanfiction, and I like to read without suspension of disbelief. Supernatural's a weird fandom, where you can fudge a lot of stuff by just saying "ahh it was a curse" "A WITCH DID IT" "DEMONSssss," but what makes really good fic (and what made the early show good, imo) is the base of real life that magical fuckery is built on. If you tell me a demon zapped our heroes from Maine to New Mexico in 24 hours because it's essential to the plot, I'll stay with you. If you just write that they drove that distance in 24 hours, I'm frustrated, because they literally couldn't and it feels lazy and cheap.

Re: Things you wish fanfic authors would/wouldn't do

[(Anonymous)]

Got lucky with the rush hour traffic.

Re: Things you wish fanfic authors would/wouldn't do

[(Anonymous)]

Just because people handle it one way in TV doesn't mean it ought to be handled the exact same way in writing. If you need a scene where characters are doing something boring, like researching at the library for hours then sure, you'd do it in montage form. But if you're writing a story, you wouldn't simply insert [musical montage] instead of writing out the actual scene, because that'd be both silly and incredibly lazy. You do what's appropriate for the medium.

Re: Things you wish fanfic authors would/wouldn't do

[(Anonymous)]

Whenever I write a drive in a SPN fic, I just don't say where they're starting out from, lol. Just that they heard about a case in named town and they made it in 18 hours, or two days of nearly solid driving, etc.