Yep, I agree, the style in that fic was a lot less florid, and I found that much more enjoyable. I don't have a problem with florid writing in itself (although I think that it works a lot better in German than in English), but I can't stand florid writing in porn. It just all ends up sounding somewhat like purple prose. I'm not talking about your fic here, but about these writers that write porn like sex is some sort of religious/metaphysical/spiritual experience with exploding stars and shit like that. Seriously? I wouldn't want anyone to explode during sex. That sounds positively dangerous. So, yeah, bad fics like that have put me off florid writing in porn forever.
Heh, I rarely read fics for fandoms I don't care about, even if I like the writer. I have yet to find a single fanfic writer who is so amazing that they could make me enjoy a fic about characters I don't even know. Of course I enjoy good writing in fanfic, but I mainly read the fanfics for the characters - because I know that I could find even better writing elsewhere.
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Date: 2010-09-03 11:08 am (UTC)Yep, I agree, the style in that fic was a lot less florid, and I found that much more enjoyable. I don't have a problem with florid writing in itself (although I think that it works a lot better in German than in English), but I can't stand florid writing in porn. It just all ends up sounding somewhat like purple prose. I'm not talking about your fic here, but about these writers that write porn like sex is some sort of religious/metaphysical/spiritual experience with exploding stars and shit like that. Seriously? I wouldn't want anyone to explode during sex. That sounds positively dangerous. So, yeah, bad fics like that have put me off florid writing in porn forever.
Heh, I rarely read fics for fandoms I don't care about, even if I like the writer. I have yet to find a single fanfic writer who is so amazing that they could make me enjoy a fic about characters I don't even know. Of course I enjoy good writing in fanfic, but I mainly read the fanfics for the characters - because I know that I could find even better writing elsewhere.
.... I don't even want to know ... oO