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Teal deer roundup
Thoughts inspired by recent wank reports, as I have the good grace not to post them in the reports themselvesexcept for that one time I totally did, and therefore feel I deserve a medal of some kind.
I was pointed to the original post pre-reportage by someone on my flist, and I gotta stand by her complaint: chicks, fine; new semi-regular characters, whatever; but who the hell goes hunting in a belly-baring T-shirt and low-rise jeans? I mean, I was pretty meh about Jo, but at least she dressed like a hunter. And she wasn't even hunting! I wanna see chicks in plaid flannel shirts, dammit! Not that I have a fetish or anything.
Chad Michael fucking Murray, no thanks. But, uh, what's Reed Diamond up to these days? I'm just saying, Mike Kellerman would've made one hell of a hunter.
It was REALLY REALLY HARD not to jump in with a defense of the present tense. I am a good wanka. I do not troll the wank. I need a daily affirmation or something.
Yeah, the poor present tense is horribly abused in fic; so's every-fucking-thing else, to one extent or another. There are good reasons to use the present tense in writing fiction. It creates a sense of immediacy, and can be especially effective when you're writing a story that takes place in, say, a single scene, or a short period of time. It suggests the characters aren't telling the story in retrospect, but rather as it happens, and thus, hey, anything could happen! It can be used for structural reasons, like when there's a story happening in two different time periods: past tense for the then, present tense for the now.
I write mostly in past tense myself, because it's what I'm used to, but every so often, I start writing something that just feels right in present tense. Sometimes you just gotta go with your instincts.
My thoughts on writing. I have shown you them.
Thoughts inspired by recent wank reports, as I have the good grace not to post them in the reports themselves
I was pointed to the original post pre-reportage by someone on my flist, and I gotta stand by her complaint: chicks, fine; new semi-regular characters, whatever; but who the hell goes hunting in a belly-baring T-shirt and low-rise jeans? I mean, I was pretty meh about Jo, but at least she dressed like a hunter. And she wasn't even hunting! I wanna see chicks in plaid flannel shirts, dammit! Not that I have a fetish or anything.
Chad Michael fucking Murray, no thanks. But, uh, what's Reed Diamond up to these days? I'm just saying, Mike Kellerman would've made one hell of a hunter.
It was REALLY REALLY HARD not to jump in with a defense of the present tense. I am a good wanka. I do not troll the wank. I need a daily affirmation or something.
Yeah, the poor present tense is horribly abused in fic; so's every-fucking-thing else, to one extent or another. There are good reasons to use the present tense in writing fiction. It creates a sense of immediacy, and can be especially effective when you're writing a story that takes place in, say, a single scene, or a short period of time. It suggests the characters aren't telling the story in retrospect, but rather as it happens, and thus, hey, anything could happen! It can be used for structural reasons, like when there's a story happening in two different time periods: past tense for the then, present tense for the now.
I write mostly in past tense myself, because it's what I'm used to, but every so often, I start writing something that just feels right in present tense. Sometimes you just gotta go with your instincts.
My thoughts on writing. I have shown you them.
