17 December 2008

I'm too lazy to think of a title though, hahaha.

Ugh… two minutes doing research on FFN and already I want to kill, kill…

Okay, what the fuck is you guys’ problem, you are all so lazy, what the fuck.
I keep clicking on fics where, say, you’re introducing an OC, whatever, and instead of describing her in the story and letting us get to know her gradually, you just give us, at the beginning before the story even starts, her name, age, history, social security… what have you.
I just skip this, and so will most of your other readers.
THIS IS NOT HOW YOU INTRODUCE CHARACTERS.
You just jump in the story, introduce them when it’s appropriate, and slowly sneak in the important information. I know it takes more effort, yes. I know it can sometimes be hard. But when you do things like this lazily, we WILL notice.
Same with settings. I keep seeing fics that do a scene break and, right up, say “SCENE: SCHOOL, NIGHT”

No! No no no!
Do your scene break! Put your dashes or apostrophes or whatever! But don’t give us any more information—just jump into the scene! DESCRIBE the location, the time of day, what have you, so we can visualize it beyond what two vague words gives us. Okay? Can we agree to do this, please?

1 comment:

MrsSoersdal said...

SCENE: LIVING ROOM, MORNING

MrsSoersdal's too-large ass is occupying her couch. She has brown hair and brown eyes and pale-ish skin. She hasn't clipped her toenails in a while but her fingernails are well-trimmed. She doesn't wear much jewelry save for a wedding ring. She has 34 freckles on her nose. She thinks your blog is funny :)