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Tue, Jun. 26th, 2007, 09:47 pm

lonelywalker.livejournal.com: Tuesday, 26th June, 2007

ignazwisdom: Beta reading poll - I'm curious as to whether there's a correlation between the amount of time one has been writing and whether one uses beta readers.[and] about how the way one got into fandom in the first place may affect the decision to use or not to use beta readers. -
(tags: poll betaing)
narahttbbs: Old people: the final frontier... - Writing about old people? Ew! More unusual than threesomes, more unusual than incest, and much more unusual than slash. Much more transgressive too, I venture to suggest. -
(tags: ageism writing)
partly_bouncy: [In fanthropology] A look at some fandom based money numbers - For me, numbers help give meaning to observations I see casually. The two together, fandom and numbers, is fascinating. One topic I've been discussing in private meta is how much money there is in fandom, who is making money off fandom, etc. -
(tags: fandom fanfic archiving)
beccaelizabeth: not-secretly - The trouble with fics where a character is secretly a (spy/alien/demon/empath/mind reader/knife fighter/genius/leather clad goth/lost prince/fairy) is that every secretly takes them further away from the canon character and off towards character-with-same -
(tags: fanfic writing)
todeskun: The "Everything I need to know I learned from Fandom" rant - yes, a large part of how you know a character is seeing that character in his original element (i.e., the canon) but that's not the only way to good characterization and, in fact, I feel that relying solely on the primary source can often be detrimental t -
(tags: fanfic writing)
dknightshade: Grrrrr. Argh! Female Characters Don't Suck. - It seems to be a truism in certain parts of fandom that women characters aren't written well and this is why fandom writes slash and why all het sucks and blahdity, blahdity, etc, etc. -
(tags: het fandom fanfic)