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⌈ Secret Post #2273 ⌋

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Actually, I read fic for literary merit. The form is capable of effects that you can't really get in other literary forms, and I like seeing what writers who take advantage of that can do with it.

I grant that this isn't the majority of writers, and there's a lot of fic I'm not interested in or doesn't work for me or both. But there's a lot of published fiction that I'm not interested in or doesn't work for me. And that isn't aiming for literary quality. I'm not sure that fic is really all that different, at least along those axes.

Actually, I read fic for literary merit. The form is capable of effects that you can't really get in other literary forms, and I like seeing what writers who take advantage of that can do with it.

YES. That is so true as well! I love the way there are whole unique ways of writing and storytelling techniques that are only possible to do with fic, because it depends on the writer assuming the reader has prior knowledge of canon, or various kinds of vignettes and character studies and POVs and reflections and pieces involving characters' feelings or situations or backstories...there's just so much opportunity there.

I didn't mention that because it's a) rather rare and b) that type of literary merit still falls into the "I want it because it's fic" reasoning. Like, along the same lines you wouldn't read a play if you wanted to read masterful descriptive prose, or read a dialogue-less story for the sparkling dialogue, even though those can both be really, really good.

The form is capable of effects that you can't really get in other literary forms, and I like seeing what writers who take advantage of that can do with it.

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