Fanfic rants by Mark Twain
May. 24th, 2007 09:31 amhttp://ww3.telerama.com/~joseph/cooper/cooper.html
I've never heard of the work he's bashing, but I was kind of interested in the various rules "governing literary art in domain of romantic fiction" Twain lists. A lot of them are common sense. I don't agree with a few (not sure how #3 does in the vampire/undead/supernatural genre for instance). And it'd be interesting to see how many of my fics actually meet all the rules and which fics didn't meet which rules...
I've never heard of the work he's bashing, but I was kind of interested in the various rules "governing literary art in domain of romantic fiction" Twain lists. A lot of them are common sense. I don't agree with a few (not sure how #3 does in the vampire/undead/supernatural genre for instance). And it'd be interesting to see how many of my fics actually meet all the rules and which fics didn't meet which rules...