I picked up some bad habits when I was writing fanfiction
Like, what? Stephen King writes camerically, as though through a camera eye; so do I. It's a matter of physical description over internal monologue, Keith Laumer rather than Barry Malzberg (whose stuff was brilliant, but very definitely a style that allowed him, for example, to tell an entire story through the depositions taken by investigators afterward; no character was physically described, nor was there any need, while Laumer excelled at physical description; his first paragraph of A Plague of Demons is a masterpiece and a joy to read).
From what I've seen, the only problem you have may well be the “bad habit” you mention: You don't bother to describe what the reader, presumed to be familiar with the show, would already know. (I, who didn't know, asked at one point if Illyria spoke with a thick Yiddish accent...) Is that what you mean?
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Date: 2007-03-25 01:41 am (UTC)I picked up some bad habits when I was writing fanfiction
Like, what? Stephen King writes camerically, as though through a camera eye; so do I. It's a matter of physical description over internal monologue, Keith Laumer rather than Barry Malzberg (whose stuff was brilliant, but very definitely a style that allowed him, for example, to tell an entire story through the depositions taken by investigators afterward; no character was physically described, nor was there any need, while Laumer excelled at physical description; his first paragraph of A Plague of Demons is a masterpiece and a joy to read).From what I've seen, the only problem you have may well be the “bad habit” you mention: You don't bother to describe what the reader, presumed to be familiar with the show, would already know. (I, who didn't know, asked at one point if Illyria spoke with a thick Yiddish accent...) Is that what you mean?