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blamebrampton) wrote2012-08-25 01:10 am
blamebrampton) wrote2012-08-25 01:10 am
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Ah HA!
FANFICCERS!
Worried about lack of reviews?
Sad that everyone is reading everyone who is not you?
Depressed to see teenagers who don't know how to spell frottage and cannot accurately gauge the bendability of the average penis with thousands of ffnet reviews while your finely crafted and beautifully edited masterpieces are lucky to garner 23?
FRET NO LONGER!
THE SECRET IS REVEALED!
''People say it isn't good quality but you have to remember Fifty Shades started as fan fiction and as fan fiction you have to have action,'' Hayward says. ''You have to have a sex scene in every chapter because that's how you get your reviews. The amount of people who review per chapter shows popularity, that's how your ratings get up. In fan fiction every chapter has to give you something to keep you reading it.''
(From an SMH interview with Amanda Hayward, the really rather brilliant publisher of the not as brilliant book.)
So there you go! You lot who've been telling me to porn it up were right all along! (I mean, obviously I'm not going to, but that's for the best. The Bad Sex Awards longlist is already inches thick.)
I thoroughly recommend the article, which is interesting and respectfully written, without being actually nice about bad writing. It includes this gem from The London Review of Books' Andrew O'Hagan, which I had previously missed: ''It's not that Fifty Shades of Grey and E.L. James's other tie-me-up-tie-me-down spankbusters read as if feminism never happened: they read as if women never even got the vote.''
Worried about lack of reviews?
Sad that everyone is reading everyone who is not you?
Depressed to see teenagers who don't know how to spell frottage and cannot accurately gauge the bendability of the average penis with thousands of ffnet reviews while your finely crafted and beautifully edited masterpieces are lucky to garner 23?
FRET NO LONGER!
THE SECRET IS REVEALED!
''People say it isn't good quality but you have to remember Fifty Shades started as fan fiction and as fan fiction you have to have action,'' Hayward says. ''You have to have a sex scene in every chapter because that's how you get your reviews. The amount of people who review per chapter shows popularity, that's how your ratings get up. In fan fiction every chapter has to give you something to keep you reading it.''
(From an SMH interview with Amanda Hayward, the really rather brilliant publisher of the not as brilliant book.)
So there you go! You lot who've been telling me to porn it up were right all along! (I mean, obviously I'm not going to, but that's for the best. The Bad Sex Awards longlist is already inches thick.)
I thoroughly recommend the article, which is interesting and respectfully written, without being actually nice about bad writing. It includes this gem from The London Review of Books' Andrew O'Hagan, which I had previously missed: ''It's not that Fifty Shades of Grey and E.L. James's other tie-me-up-tie-me-down spankbusters read as if feminism never happened: they read as if women never even got the vote.''
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I love dogs, but Mr B is a cat person and our garden is very small and without grass, so I am happy having just the feline muppets and patting all the local dogs. I could teach you to ride if we were ever in the same place, it's really easy!
And Chelsea is the club I say I support when I have to talk football, though I confess that I am a total ignoramus and should really stick to cricket, F1, cycling and equestrian. Good luck! I'm off to bed, but will sleep with my fingers crossed!
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Thanks, we'll need the luck! Our newest bb Hazard just scored through a pen though.
Good night, and thank you for friending me :3