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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 have to come back tomorrow to finish this comment, because I had lots of thoughts and wanted to phrase them coherently, then went out cycling, then to spin class, then to dinner, and now it's nearly 3am and my brain is SAGO! Back in a few hours …
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I mean I notice more of it when I got to Sydney but I always did. I have a fondness for big boots and chains and buckles, always have but I can't add any extra weight to my clothes and shoes without using more energy than I have. (I always wanted some big CAT boots with many buckles but I can't even wear my Colorado boots for long.)
I have a bunch of friends who have always been involved in the Goth and BDSM scenes anyway and I don't see a lot of people outside of friends any more.