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Oct. 21st, 2010 12:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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And if anyone else out there is out of their tiny little minds with overwork: Agatha Christie, complex geometry, red lip gloss and slightly complicated knitting are all decent stopgaps until your brain has time to recover. One week, and I will be off having an adventure with no one expecting me to rescue anyone else's demented prose! If I am tremendously dilligent, I can even get a good lot of writing done and be a step closer to never editing again.
Well, never editing anything not written by friends or interesting fandom people, at any rate ...
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And if anyone else out there is out of their tiny little minds with overwork: Agatha Christie, complex geometry, red lip gloss and slightly complicated knitting are all decent stopgaps until your brain has time to recover. One week, and I will be off having an adventure with no one expecting me to rescue anyone else's demented prose! If I am tremendously dilligent, I can even get a good lot of writing done and be a step closer to never editing again.
Well, never editing anything not written by friends or interesting fandom people, at any rate ...
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Date: 2010-10-20 01:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-20 03:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-20 11:13 pm (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2010-10-20 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-20 03:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-20 01:35 pm (UTC)But far better write in present tense than not at all.
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Date: 2010-10-20 01:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-20 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-20 03:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-20 03:32 pm (UTC)And I expect you're right about experts being able to pull it off without readers even noticing. I am not one of those.
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Date: 2010-10-20 01:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-20 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-20 07:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-20 01:46 pm (UTC)My fave example for a long fanfic written in present tense that works is "Things That Change": even though the plot covers more than two decades, the focus is on intimate things like sex and the physical changes due to pregnancy, birth and illness. The present tense works here to sustain an intimacy and immediacy that I doubt would have come across quite as intensely if written in past tense.
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Date: 2010-10-20 03:21 pm (UTC)I think the basic problem is that my brain is broken, but deadlines are not!
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Date: 2010-10-20 01:54 pm (UTC)Though, to be fair, I'm sure it's a valid form of writing with a decent amount of people who love it, but it just takes me out of the story.
Lol, and if you're like me, Agatha Christie, cracked.com, and not so complicated cross-stitch leads to hours and hours of work not getting done. Which, er, is not good when you're sitting at your desk at work.
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Date: 2010-10-20 03:24 pm (UTC)Sadly, I think I loathe it because more often the faults of the form are obvious, as you say.
And we are alike in our hobbies, but not the timing: work has been a constant boil of rescuing other people from disaster of late, and long hours spent doing so, with the result that when I come home I can only manage Miss Marple, M. Poirot, and DPNs. Oh, and a walk, the cats and Mr B, with the odd baked pudding, but that is really it!
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Date: 2010-10-20 03:36 pm (UTC)Lol, I try to keep it until after work, but after days and days and fucking days of staring at this same excel spreadsheet I just couldn't take it anymore.
Excel is really the work of the devil. I have finally been convinced.
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Date: 2010-10-20 02:43 pm (UTC)*Huggles*
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Date: 2010-10-20 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-20 02:47 pm (UTC)So you really have nothing to worry about. :D
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Date: 2010-10-20 03:13 pm (UTC)As things stand, I am considering a career reviewing lip glosses: at least I am certain of my ground there ;-)
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Date: 2010-10-20 03:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-20 03:41 pm (UTC)I wouldn't say it was (and therefore didn't tick) 'better suited to modern American voices' option, because I don't think it's to do with the writer per se. But of the three fandoms I play in (HP, Torchwood/Who and White Collar), I have noticed it working well most often in White Collar (which is modern and American), than the others which are British.
Also, I read Wemyss' Fan Fair fic today, so my periods may be becoming somewhat over-involved. Could be worse, though. I've also been watching Outrageous Fortune, so I could have said 'fuck' a lot.
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Date: 2010-10-20 05:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-20 06:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-20 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-20 06:39 pm (UTC)But it got me writing again to write that way, and if you need to do it the hard way in order to do it at all, I say, go for it!
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Date: 2010-10-20 07:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-20 07:07 pm (UTC)Often misused but I wouldn't go "augh, present tense, get me out of here!" just because.
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Date: 2010-10-20 09:51 pm (UTC)How to be sure one is doing these things well and not badly, however, I cannot say. :) I have no doubt that if you chose to write something in present tense, it would be done well.
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Date: 2010-10-20 10:57 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-10-21 12:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-21 05:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-21 11:36 am (UTC)As for tenses, I don't really mind either way, as long as authors stick to the tense they've chosen. On the whole present tense doesn't bother me. It's done so much these days that I hardly notice if something's written in present or past tense, to be honest.
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Date: 2010-10-21 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-22 04:32 am (UTC)Also, does this mean I have the last of Fathers to look forward to? My beta goggles are charged and ready to go! (Which is to say, I'm desperate to read the rest -- I just re-read Sins and longed to just jump into the next...)
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Date: 2010-10-22 08:34 am (UTC)