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Alassante
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| ZeeDrippyVessel wrote: | | Viv wrote: | Hmm. Should we admit this, precious?
Sometimes I look for smut. And read it.
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Smut. Smut is good. PWP... I can do the occasional....coughcough... PWP....
A 183 chapter PWP, now that's different. Need some plot.... |
But you are not opposed to having two smutty, hot, sweaty, sex-filled chapters in a row that refines the meaning of horselord and span less that 10 hrs of their life (and the whole story is 18 chapters that span 6 yrs) , are you? 
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ZeeDrippyVessel
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Alassante wrote: |
But you are not opposed to having two smutty, hot, sweaty, sex-filled chapters in a row that refines the meaning of horselord and span less that 10 hrs of their life (and the whole story is 18 chapters that span 6 yrs) , are you? |
Oh no. Not oppsed to that at all...
As LONG as there is a plot and you don't make me DIG to find it! 
Zee is old and Zee is tired. Zee is mentally and physically exhausted and wants to be beaten over the head with PLOT and SMUT!
You know what I like about the Eorlings... Rohirrim... ?(and yeah, I'll probably hear about this posted at the site that shall not be named - and NO it doesn't deserve CAPITALS!)
No Lace....
Let's all get drunk... and screw!
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Alassante
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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| ZeeDrippyVessel wrote: | Oh no. Not oppsed to that at all...
As LONG as there is a plot and you don't make me DIG to find it!
Zee is old and Zee is tired. Zee is mentally and physically exhausted and wants to be beaten over the head with PLOT and SMUT!
You know what I like about the Eorlings... Rohirrim... ?(and yeah, I'll probably hear about this posted at the site that shall not be named - and NO it doesn't deserve CAPITALS!)
No Lace....
Let's all get drunk... and screw! |
The plot is in the first four chapters and the chapters after the smut. Not too buried and it is not a PWP!! In fact it is a very sweet love story. Check it out sometime - The Elf and Future King: http://www.openscrolls.net/fanfic/story.php?no=1538 It's my baby since my other story that is currently a WIP has betrayed me by being difficult to finish!!
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ZeeDrippyVessel
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| Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 12:22 am Post subject: |
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I've read the first 5 chapters honey. I'll get to the 6th shortly. I MUST catch up Ghetto's lovely piece and get over my current wank-fest first.
I wrote 10 pages of TL this weekend. That hurt.
I'm also trying to get Gamling laid.
So much to do, so little time.
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Eyborg
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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| What makes me read a story? Hmmm... I don't really know. But basically, if it's about something/someone that interests me, I'll take a peak at it. Can be anything at all. But as you all know, I'm a PHF, so I mostly tend to read hobbit stuff. (I don't really read many elf stories). Also, if the story is about something "different" (like dwarf romance or something like that). Oh yes, and smut is also good. |
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Leaward
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| ZeeDrippyVessel wrote: | | NancyBrooke wrote: |
A personal request - don't post your stories all at once! Spread them out a bit, give us a chance to enjoy each one on its own merits.
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Thank you! I forgot to mention that. it is overwhelming when an author poststheir entire arsenal in a sitting. I'm list mom of a LOTR yahoo group and that was a rule we recently instated - one to 2 chappies in a 24 hour period. To open up your mailbox and see 15 chapters in arow.... that just blows a lot of readers minds! I know if frekas me.
I don't mind a WIP as long as t he writer doesn't have a history of incompletes.
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Coming in late here, but ooops? After I had posted my first 'single chapter' story, and not got beaten over the head as I had been at another site I will never name ... I posted a story I had previously posted on SoA that was 15 chapters long.
I saw no reason to drag out the posting process to a chapter a week as the story had been completed months before plus my beta insisted that a lot of ppl don't read WIPs but wait until the story is complete before they read AND I had NO idea that you got chapters MAILED to you! Sorry, Zee. 
As for what I read and/or why I choose a story? Good summary definitely helps, if the summary looks interesting and the first few paragraphs hold my interest, I'll read it. I'll read elf stories, I'm not a bit hobbit fan, nor am I a BIG fan of Silm but I have read a few but I prefer if the writer assumes I have little knowledge of the Silm even though I have read it several times, I do not consider myself well-enough versed on it to keep all the Fin's straight! I don't like movie!verse, prefer book!verse, no poetry, and someone else said they don't like florid prose. I'm with them. People who try to out-Tolkien the professor put me off. Forget the purple prose, it's too long-winded and doesn't move the plot enough.
I do look for certain ratings so I can compare my work to make sure I'm in line with the proper ratings -- I had to write my first love scene recently and wanted to make sure it stayed at R or below for SoA -- checked out the differences between R and NC17 here. That made for some pleasant reading in the name of research.  (although the screen got shrunk down anytime the kids walked by )
On the whole, I'm reasonably new to the fanfic world so I'm still finding my feet in trying to decide what works for me and what doesn't. So I try to read just about anything, but it comes down to those first few paragraphs. If they grab my attention, then I'll keep reading, if they don't, I click off. |
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SpaceWeavil
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:35 am Post subject: |
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| Leaward wrote: |
I don't like movie!verse, prefer book!verse, no poetry, and someone else said they don't like florid prose. I'm with them. People who try to out-Tolkien the professor put me off. Forget the purple prose, it's too long-winded and doesn't move the plot enough. |
I wouldn't recommend you read anything of mine then 
I'm actually the opposite, I must say. In this fandom, I'm not so keen on veyr modern prose, unless it's a humour fic, or at a push, a girl-falls-into-ME story written from the OFC's POV, but then I try to avoid those stories most days. I love language, and if I find a story where the writer can use language in a way that is enjoyable to read and evocative to read, I don't mind if it takes a little longer for the plot to unfold. I'd rather read a well-written story that moves slowly than a fast-paced one written in overly simplistic English.
But then I may be biased in that, because I do get a blot of criticism about my pacing (though not on my use of language, I find). I've had some very snidey remarks on FF Net, that seem to think having a more sedate story is a crime. Maybe I am too slow, but that is the way I like to write, so why should I be considered a bad writer because I like to work into my characters and setting?
Sorry to rant. Sore spot.
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Leaward
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:44 am Post subject: |
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I have read yours Space -- and left a few reviews (although they may have been on SoA rather than here, I can't keep track.) I like your writing style. I am not meaning too 'modern-day' language -- I meant passive writing, florid, heavy in adjectives and adverbs. 'Telling not showing.' I don't think your writing is like that.
I read one that was given a Mithril award last year that moved far too slowly, loaded with adjectives that did nothing to the story which went on for far too long before you got to the plot. I started to wonder if there WAS a plot. Yet there was another story in the same category that was eloquent and evoked emotion and won the Reader's Choice award yet got no where with the judges.
Didn't mean to hit any 'hot button issues' on that. Sorry. I'll go back to lurking again... but then again ... the question was what did I read ... |
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SpaceWeavil
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:51 am Post subject: |
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| Leaward wrote: | I have read yours Space -- and left a few reviews (although they may have been on SoA rather than here, I can't keep track.) I like your writing style. I am not meaning too 'modern-day' language -- I meant passive writing, florid, heavy in adjectives and adverbs. 'Telling not showing.' I don't think your writing is like that.
I read one that was given a Mithril award last year that moved far too slowly, loaded with adjectives that did nothing to the story which went on for far too long before you got to the plot. I started to wonder if there WAS a plot. Yet there was another story in the same category that was eloquent and evoked emotion and won the Reader's Choice award yet got no where with the judges.
Didn't mean to hit any 'hot button issues' on that. Sorry. I'll go back to lurking again... but then again ... the question was what did I read ... |
I'll agree on stories where it seems like the florid writing is just there for the sake of it. And I wasn't actually getting at your comments. As I said above, the snarky comments I received were from reviewers on FF.Net. Obviously you can say what you want to read, or give your opinion. I'm just doing the same.
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