This particular gender-bender story was well-written, and that always helps any story. As far as crack is concerned, it has to be completely off the wall to the point of being psychedelic. There were a couple of well-written slashcrackfics several months ago that combined Hellstrom, Zoller and I believe Archie and later Landa that I found very entertaining. To me that's how crack should be written. The concept has to be completely wild but in character and decently written.
Sometimes the bad writing does bug me, primarily if the dialogue is off--how could anybody write Landa saying "I wanna..."?--or when it's riddled with bad mispellings, or the possessive apostrophe is used in a plural ("he brought the bag's to the car") or other, similar assualts on punctuation, grammar and spelling. But sometimes when the writer is not working in their native tongue I find the errors very endearing. Like when one friend of mine wrote a fic using "Dryer String" for "Lsundry Line." That I found really lovely.
God, I've seen so much horrific writing in my lifetime I'm almost used to it--and try to avoid it as much as possible. What REALLY bothers me are when I'm editing work by people who are much older and better educated than I am, and they still can't string together a decent sentence. Then I go back to my Grandmother's and mother's old St. Nicholas storybooks from the 1880s through the 1920s with all the letters from children under 12 who wrote better than most adults do today and I get a bit depressed.
Oh, don't apologize. Not to worry, you're just in a moody state lately. I'm entering menopause, but I still occasionally have the standard hormone fluctuations that are often the root of it all. At least it isn't as much like clockwork as it was when I was younger!
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Date: 2010-08-10 01:27 am (UTC)This particular gender-bender story was well-written, and that always helps any story. As far as crack is concerned, it has to be completely off the wall to the point of being psychedelic. There were a couple of well-written slashcrackfics several months ago that combined Hellstrom, Zoller and I believe Archie and later Landa that I found very entertaining. To me that's how crack should be written. The concept has to be completely wild but in character and decently written.
Sometimes the bad writing does bug me, primarily if the dialogue is off--how could anybody write Landa saying "I wanna..."?--or when it's riddled with bad mispellings, or the possessive apostrophe is used in a plural ("he brought the bag's to the car") or other, similar assualts on punctuation, grammar and spelling. But sometimes when the writer is not working in their native tongue I find the errors very endearing. Like when one friend of mine wrote a fic using "Dryer String" for "Lsundry Line." That I found really lovely.
God, I've seen so much horrific writing in my lifetime I'm almost used to it--and try to avoid it as much as possible. What REALLY bothers me are when I'm editing work by people who are much older and better educated than I am, and they still can't string together a decent sentence. Then I go back to my Grandmother's and mother's old St. Nicholas storybooks from the 1880s through the 1920s with all the letters from children under 12 who wrote better than most adults do today and I get a bit depressed.
Oh, don't apologize. Not to worry, you're just in a moody state lately. I'm entering menopause, but I still occasionally have the standard hormone fluctuations that are often the root of it all. At least it isn't as much like clockwork as it was when I was younger!