fics where you have to share the same itch, grudge or disinterest for something the author has or else.
Yeah, I know I'm turned off by stories in which the author clearly has an agenda or an axe to grind. Even if I grind the same axe, I don't think it makes for very good storytelling unless you can get your point across as part of the story. Case in point: I really hate the way SPN has cast Dean as a "whiner" who repeatedly needs to be lectured. If I read a story in which someone started lecturing Dean (as the show does) and then another character came in and yelled at that person and told them they were ALL WRONG about Dean, I'd know the author felt the same way I do, but they would be expressing it in a clunky way that would probably make for a poor story.
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Date: 2010-03-11 11:59 pm (UTC)Yeah, I know I'm turned off by stories in which the author clearly has an agenda or an axe to grind. Even if I grind the same axe, I don't think it makes for very good storytelling unless you can get your point across as part of the story. Case in point: I really hate the way SPN has cast Dean as a "whiner" who repeatedly needs to be lectured. If I read a story in which someone started lecturing Dean (as the show does) and then another character came in and yelled at that person and told them they were ALL WRONG about Dean, I'd know the author felt the same way I do, but they would be expressing it in a clunky way that would probably make for a poor story.