thirty days of fanfic, day sixteen
Sep. 16th, 2011 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jlh(list of questions can be found at day one)
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16 – Summaries – Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?
Because I love summaries, I hate writing them. It's so hard to find a group of words that give the reader a good sense of what they're getting into, while also making it sound like something they'd even want to read. It takes me FOREVER and I always have to have my betas read them because I'm notorious for not really knowing what a story is about. I know what it's about in my head, and I know what I was trying to do, but you know, early days in fandom being around really rigid hard sci fi types have made me somewhat pre-disparaging about my stories. If it doesn't feature epic battle scenes against a great enemy, I figure it's just a big pile of plotless curtain fic. That isn't really true, but it's hard to feel like character growth and interpersonal relationships are a plot. So I need help to properly represent my story.
Ely used to be awesome at this, I have to say. She always knew how to summarize my fics.
one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight | nine | ten | eleven | twelve| thirteen | fourteen | fifteen
16 – Summaries – Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?
Because I love summaries, I hate writing them. It's so hard to find a group of words that give the reader a good sense of what they're getting into, while also making it sound like something they'd even want to read. It takes me FOREVER and I always have to have my betas read them because I'm notorious for not really knowing what a story is about. I know what it's about in my head, and I know what I was trying to do, but you know, early days in fandom being around really rigid hard sci fi types have made me somewhat pre-disparaging about my stories. If it doesn't feature epic battle scenes against a great enemy, I figure it's just a big pile of plotless curtain fic. That isn't really true, but it's hard to feel like character growth and interpersonal relationships are a plot. So I need help to properly represent my story.
Ely used to be awesome at this, I have to say. She always knew how to summarize my fics.
