yes, and i think we cannot emphasize the social aspect enough. yes, there are people writing in their little room just they and the source text, but the large majority of writers interact, debate, discuss, enjoy...and the fic is part and parcel, extensdion, commentary, source for more discuission and more fic.
True--though of course improving one's technical skill can only help that as well. I can understand why someone would be annoyed by someone's concentrating on the structure or technical aspects of the story when the point is to just to discuss the situation presented in the story as best as the author could. Sometimes writers slip back and forth across the line between social and literary. For instance, it seems like a question that's being brought up a lot in these discussions is something like, "Well, if you're just putting something out socially then why would you be offended by technical criticisms?" Which could be a good point if it's not just that the author doesn't want to deal with the technical aspects but want it to be assumes straight off that the technical aspects are all good.
it's sth that i don't really see in any other context and the emotional involvement we all share in the texts, the characters, the fics is sth that's hard to translate into the RL world...
Yes, that's a big part of it. A profic writer might have a big investment in his/her own characters, but that's very different from the shared love that fans have for another person's characters.
BTW, I'd love to hear more about your feelings on non-writers being discriminated against. Maybe that's in the link...?:-)
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Date: 2005-01-19 07:40 pm (UTC)True--though of course improving one's technical skill can only help that as well. I can understand why someone would be annoyed by someone's concentrating on the structure or technical aspects of the story when the point is to just to discuss the situation presented in the story as best as the author could. Sometimes writers slip back and forth across the line between social and literary. For instance, it seems like a question that's being brought up a lot in these discussions is something like, "Well, if you're just putting something out socially then why would you be offended by technical criticisms?" Which could be a good point if it's not just that the author doesn't want to deal with the technical aspects but want it to be assumes straight off that the technical aspects are all good.
it's sth that i don't really see in any other context and the emotional involvement we all share in the texts, the characters, the fics is sth that's hard to translate into the RL world...
Yes, that's a big part of it. A profic writer might have a big investment in his/her own characters, but that's very different from the shared love that fans have for another person's characters.
BTW, I'd love to hear more about your feelings on non-writers being discriminated against. Maybe that's in the link...?:-)