Mostly, if I don't see enough of their psyche on the screen, I don't get invested enough to care about fic.
I like filling up people.
That comes out wrong, doesn't it?
I think it's a fine line to do a long piece, one with plot and depth and have a romance
I'm not sure it's a factor of length, necessarily. By whole, I don't mean a plot, bells and whistles--I mean a whole character. A whole person. We're not just sex drives on legs, even the sex compulsives among us. One doesn't need an action/adventure novel to convey that, though sometimes it makes things easier. But I've got whole anthologies of short stories on my shelves that manage to be about full people, even when the stories are about sex.
That's where we get into the nebulous discussion of 'fanfic aesthetic', I guess. As one who's been told on more than one occasion that her stories fail as fanfic (and took it as the compliment it wasn't meant to be), I'm probably not qualified to circumscribe what that aesthetic is.
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Date: 2008-02-21 07:54 pm (UTC)I like filling up people.
That comes out wrong, doesn't it?
I think it's a fine line to do a long piece, one with plot and depth and have a romance
I'm not sure it's a factor of length, necessarily. By whole, I don't mean a plot, bells and whistles--I mean a whole character. A whole person. We're not just sex drives on legs, even the sex compulsives among us. One doesn't need an action/adventure novel to convey that, though sometimes it makes things easier. But I've got whole anthologies of short stories on my shelves that manage to be about full people, even when the stories are about sex.
That's where we get into the nebulous discussion of 'fanfic aesthetic', I guess. As one who's been told on more than one occasion that her stories fail as fanfic (and took it as the compliment it wasn't meant to be), I'm probably not qualified to circumscribe what that aesthetic is.