The FAQ looks good, and I definitely will be participating unless RL comes crashing down (I'm headed to the UK for a wedding in late June, but I should be able to write on the plane, so).
If I remember the original FAQ correctly, the main change this time seems to be: To help you resist temptation, I'll make it simple: no quoting of the lyrics at all. Before, IIRC the quoting of a line or so was permissable. It's not always easy to "capture the atmosphere/intent" of a song. I suppose that it's up to the provider of the lyrics to choose two songs that have a distinctive atmosphere or a clear meaning, rather than just being their favourite songs. If they choose songs where the lyrics are exceedingly obscure, then they can't complain if the story that they get isn't in accord with what they themself read into the lyrics.
the main change this time seems to be: To help you resist temptation, I'll make it simple: no quoting of the lyrics at all.
Yeah, that's the main change, apart from the procedural changes due to the different venue.
I just felt it was simpler and more straightforward to say "no quoting lyrics at all" than to get into the fuzzy area of trying to figure out how many lines are okay to quote. And I dearly, dearly want to avoid the kind of stories which give "songfic" such a bad reputation.
Do you have a problem with the "no quoting" rule? I don't want to make it too difficult for people to write stories, if you think it does make things harder.
At first I thought that it might be a problem, but on reflection I don't think that it should be, so long as the person making the request chooses at leaast one song where the lyrics aren't too obscure.
Question about this: does "quoting" also cover use of a phrase that occurs in the song, whether in a line of dialogue or narrative... when it is *not* an actual quote? That sort of thing seemed to happen relatively often in previous Lyric Wheels.
I'm in total agreement with the spirit of the rule, you understand. :-D
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Yay!
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Yeah, that's the main change, apart from the procedural changes due to the different venue.
I just felt it was simpler and more straightforward to say "no quoting lyrics at all" than to get into the fuzzy area of trying to figure out how many lines are okay to quote. And I dearly, dearly want to avoid the kind of stories which give "songfic" such a bad reputation.
Do you have a problem with the "no quoting" rule? I don't want to make it too difficult for people to write stories, if you think it does make things harder.
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I'm in total agreement with the spirit of the rule, you understand. :-D
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