1. YES! If you can't even bother to look up the name on the web or something, you're not enough of a fan. I judge you like hell. (That sounds like a fandomsecret, right there...) 2. I haven't seen all that many of them, thank god. But your example is... horrific. 3. Oh yeah. I agree completely. When in doubt, make it bland. Dialect don't make good fic. But it's a nice detail. :o) 4. AGREED!! 5. I'm totally with you. In stories like those, my bullshit detector goes off wildly. 6. Indeed. If you go: "wut?" then it's wrong. 7. Anything can work with the right background. Like that G/B fic where Garak ended up a Bajoran monk... after about 75.000 words of explanation. IT WORKED! 8. it 'can' work, but there are just SO many factors that need to be just right. Not to mention that you're appealing to 2 different fangroups and if you don't know both worlds, you run a great risk of most of your readers ending up confused. I read a REALLY good one yesterday, though. 9. Way to kill the surprise. 10. YES!!! GOD YES!!!
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Date: 2009-10-08 03:49 pm (UTC)2. I haven't seen all that many of them, thank god. But your example is... horrific.
3. Oh yeah. I agree completely. When in doubt, make it bland. Dialect don't make good fic. But it's a nice detail. :o)
4. AGREED!!
5. I'm totally with you. In stories like those, my bullshit detector goes off wildly.
6. Indeed. If you go: "wut?" then it's wrong.
7. Anything can work with the right background. Like that G/B fic where Garak ended up a Bajoran monk... after about 75.000 words of explanation. IT WORKED!
8. it 'can' work, but there are just SO many factors that need to be just right. Not to mention that you're appealing to 2 different fangroups and if you don't know both worlds, you run a great risk of most of your readers ending up confused. I read a REALLY good one yesterday, though.
9. Way to kill the surprise.
10. YES!!! GOD YES!!!