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Feb 25, 2008 12:24

Getting into conversations with people online makes me incredibly nervous. I don't like acting fake, and I think because of this, I come across as harsher or bitchier than I intended to be/or harsh and bitchy when I wasn't trying to be that way at all. My expectations, I think, are also too high of other people--I expect people to understand, or at ( Read more... )

jumpy, fanthings, suethor, talking is bad, fandom

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hamburgerjack February 25 2008, 19:04:26 UTC
Here's something about writing:

If you read something and you're full of questions, that means the writer's story is full of holes and they're lazy or may not be talented enough to fill them in.

Author's notes that go beyond silly or "thanks for inspiration" are cop outs and warnings that a story might suck.

Just a little stuff I've learned from Fandom over on my end.

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zinnia_ziegler February 25 2008, 20:12:10 UTC
She's an enormously talented writer, it's just...with the story, while she's working with a great set-up, she doesn't always do it justice and the story's suffering from the amount of storytime she's devoting to her two OCs. I think in just about every chapter update she's had overly long ANs insisting her OCs aren't a Sue and Stu and how necessary they are and how much she likes her Stu...if they were as she says they are, saying this once would have been sufficient.

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zinnia_ziegler February 25 2008, 20:08:45 UTC
On another site...

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zinnia_ziegler February 26 2008, 00:47:48 UTC
http://www.fanfiction.net

I am very mysterious like that. /ninja eye gaze

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kintagi February 26 2008, 20:41:14 UTC
You shouldn't worry that much... it's not like you know them and if they can't take any critism then they are just plain EVIL! ;x

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zinnia_ziegler February 26 2008, 21:22:15 UTC
Yeah...it's cool now, I was just jumpier than usual yesterday. But yeah, I need to fixate less on these kind of things...

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