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auroral-melody · 17 days

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i saw like a "bad fanfiction bingo" thing and it kinda struck a nerve because there were so many things on there that were just like. either personal preference or things that were NOT inherently bad writing. i'm sure that plenty of the best fics i've ever read would hit some squares on that card.

it just reminded me that so much of writing is about context and intent.

using little-to-no punctuation is something that can be employed to great effect, if it's a stylistic choice.

script format? works perfectly well for something like homestuck as-is; also, that's such a vague description that includes screenplay and comic script fics.

moaning/screaming/laughing typed out? so context-dependent oh my god. huge fan of when dialogue is broken by a little -- ah -- during a scene, for example

"eye color compared to gemstones" really peeved me personally since like. yeah one of my favorite characters has amber eyes. like that's straight up on the wiki page. yeah sorry i compare my blorbo's irises to blue labradorite because they are blue and gold and have chatoyant properties. skill issue if you don't like that

i'm sure i'm willfully misinterpreting the intent of the post i saw a bit. i'm sure op would not universally claim every single thing they wrote is a Sign of something being Bad. but like. that's the problem with generalizing anything when it comes to writing

#my posts #ok to rb #'character dialogue in all caps' whoever wrote this has clearly never written daleks #bc ngl. someone included a 'why must they talk in caps' aside in a fic and it made me laugh SO hard bc #they were in fact written in capslock.#same with bill cipher like that is a CANON example of written text being in capslock #'author notes making up 1/3 of the chapter'#me looking at the entire chapter i posted on ao3 that was literally Just author notes because #did you know ao3 has a 5k character limit on A/Ns #'animal comparisons in sex scene' hey op my blorbo has got wings and is a sub #if you think im not comparing him to a bird being murdered. ur wrong and have no taste. btw. <3 #'ellipsis abuse' okay im guilty of a lot of punctuation abuse ill cede to that one #anyway skill issue if you cant identify the minerals im using as comparison. google them.

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