My goal, eventually, is to write one verse for every person I know. It's a fun rhyme scheme and format.
*wants a verse SO BAD* Because that song is so completely stuck in my head these days. Aaaargh. But, yes! You do very well with that rhyme scheme and structure; I'm halfway between impressed and jealous. *can't rhyme worth a nut*
How many first-time stories are there, anyway? People keep writing them, and they're almost all the same after a while.
This is why I no longer bother to read fic in certain fandoms... unless I know it's going to be good. Sometimes you just know that, once the conventions have been established, nothing is going to change.
Which is why BttF fanfic (and slash fandom in particular) is rather a strange bird; very few slash conventions for M/G have been established, and the few that have been are so laughable that when that kind of fanfic shows up (I think you know what I'm talking about) it's easy to breeze over it.
Hopefully, ghostgecko's inventiveness, drworm's subversiveness, and my...whateverishness will prevent rehashing and stagnation.
It'd be nice if that was it, really... the thing is that conventions usually get started because they're easy to write and easy to lift from others without detection. I imagine among BttF slash fans, 'stolen' ideas would be too easily identifiable. Kinda like the one girl who (a long time ago) wrote a Willard fic in which he was sexually abused by Mr. Martin... and ended up with several reviews that read something like (to use ghostgecko's example) "Nice fic. I liked it better when DrWorm wrote it." *blush* :3 It's harder to steal strange ideas, which is a good argument for keeping your ideas as nuts as possible.
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Date: 2005-06-03 11:17 pm (UTC)*wants a verse SO BAD* Because that song is so completely stuck in my head these days. Aaaargh. But, yes! You do very well with that rhyme scheme and structure; I'm halfway between impressed and jealous. *can't rhyme worth a nut*
How many first-time stories are there, anyway? People keep writing them, and they're almost all the same after a while.
This is why I no longer bother to read fic in certain fandoms... unless I know it's going to be good. Sometimes you just know that, once the conventions have been established, nothing is going to change.
Which is why BttF fanfic (and slash fandom in particular) is rather a strange bird; very few slash conventions for M/G have been established, and the few that have been are so laughable that when that kind of fanfic shows up (I think you know what I'm talking about) it's easy to breeze over it.
Hopefully, ghostgecko's inventiveness, drworm's subversiveness, and my...whateverishness will prevent rehashing and stagnation.
It'd be nice if that was it, really... the thing is that conventions usually get started because they're easy to write and easy to lift from others without detection. I imagine among BttF slash fans, 'stolen' ideas would be too easily identifiable. Kinda like the one girl who (a long time ago) wrote a Willard fic in which he was sexually abused by Mr. Martin... and ended up with several reviews that read something like (to use