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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2004-11-28 07:19 pm
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helpful hints for writing romance and slash no. 1,600,042

if, while you're writing slashfic, some poignantly pertinent lyrics come to your mind as inspiration but they don't really fit the tone of canon--for example, cohen/wainwright/whassis' "halleljuh" during the fast and the furious--keep it to yourself.

don't quote them.*

*the same applies to poetry. ESPECIALLY t.s. eliot.
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[identity profile] norah.livejournal.com 2004-11-28 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
omfg YIS.

You're reading TFTF bad!fic, aren't you? Please tell me the inspiration for this particular rant didn't come from any of my recs...

[identity profile] thelionforreal.livejournal.com 2004-11-28 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
1. whassis = Jeff Buckley
2. *the same applies to poetry. ESPECIALLY t.s. eliot. : OMG, I don't even WANT TO KNOW.

[identity profile] guinevere33.livejournal.com 2004-11-29 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Was re-reading "Enchantment" by Orson Scott Card on the plane back to California today, and he did the SAME DAMN THING. In the middle of an otherwise excellent book, he makes his protagonist listen to this obscure album that Mr. Card was apparently rocking out to while writing the book. It's really jarring and obnoxious, and comes off like an in-joke. You'd think professional authors would know better, ya know?
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