I agree with you on many levels here and really brook no argument.
The biggest challenge with this ficathon was that there were authors coming from so many corners of fandom that very few had actually read each other's work or journals enough to know the styles, loves, etc. of those they were writing for. This is just one of the inherent downfalls to the ficathon process.
Historical fiction written from a twenty-first century perspective with modern jargon is not something I generally enjoy. It pulls the reader from the moment and I have a hard time getting back into the mood and feel after being jarred out. It's frightening the power a few words scattered here and there can have on a historical story. Luckily I think that like myself DM considers each piece a work in progress and always open to reworking, which means that as authors we can take all the comments into consideration and incorporating them into the piece.
Tobacco Lords (if one must define the man at all) would be more acceptable in the historical context.
As for what I had in mind the ficathon only gave a few things one could request so putting in exactly what sort of mood etc. wasn't really an option, such is life. DM was fair enough to warn she had struggles writing Angelus so it is through no fault of her own that she was asked to write him. I never meant to tear the story to shreds, it just didn't hit my buttons, I'm sure there are plenty of readers who will enjoy it I just couldn't get past the breaks in canon (because that's what I prefer) and using words like 'last squirts' of anything are the quickest way I've found yet to make me stop reading. I want to read it, I wouldn't even mind giving it a proper beta, but at this point I think we've established that there are many opinions and comments that will help her best decide how she wants to work her final edit. I'm just glad she was open to honest comments and hopefully she knows that it is in no way a critisism of her, just this one piece.
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Re: When History Nerds Counter-Attack
Date: 2004-06-02 07:42 am (UTC)The biggest challenge with this ficathon was that there were authors coming from so many corners of fandom that very few had actually read each other's work or journals enough to know the styles, loves, etc. of those they were writing for. This is just one of the inherent downfalls to the ficathon process.
Historical fiction written from a twenty-first century perspective with modern jargon is not something I generally enjoy. It pulls the reader from the moment and I have a hard time getting back into the mood and feel after being jarred out. It's frightening the power a few words scattered here and there can have on a historical story. Luckily I think that like myself DM considers each piece a work in progress and always open to reworking, which means that as authors we can take all the comments into consideration and incorporating them into the piece.
Tobacco Lords (if one must define the man at all) would be more acceptable in the historical context.
As for what I had in mind the ficathon only gave a few things one could request so putting in exactly what sort of mood etc. wasn't really an option, such is life. DM was fair enough to warn she had struggles writing Angelus so it is through no fault of her own that she was asked to write him. I never meant to tear the story to shreds, it just didn't hit my buttons, I'm sure there are plenty of readers who will enjoy it I just couldn't get past the breaks in canon (because that's what I prefer) and using words like 'last squirts' of anything are the quickest way I've found yet to make me stop reading. I want to read it, I wouldn't even mind giving it a proper beta, but at this point I think we've established that there are many opinions and comments that will help her best decide how she wants to work her final edit. I'm just glad she was open to honest comments and hopefully she knows that it is in no way a critisism of her, just this one piece.