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Fanfiction Reviews/Recommendations?
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 8:54 pm
by Rigil Kent
Way back on TrollBBS, before I abandoned that place lo these many years back when the "moderators" stopped doing their job, a couple of us started an in-depth review of a couple of TnT based fics. I believe that we only managed to get through MissAnnThropic's opus, Cry Havoc and Zane's Differential before the threads died out (as there were like three people tops trying to keep said threads alive).
And then, we did something similar over at HoT (with boushh providing point for a while) with the Fanfiction recommendations ...
Are we going to do something like that here? I would really like to do something that actually involves the author of the recommended piece so the readers could interact with the author and perhaps get some insight into their writing process or why the author did what they did in section whatever...
Thoughts?
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:49 pm
by Bether6074
That sounds like a great idea! The discussions dealing with stories over at HoT were always a lot of fun...even when we were politely disagreeing.
Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 1:26 am
by chrisis1033
Thats sounds great!
Do you propose a thread for each fic?
Should this have its own section on the board?
I am unsure how it was done at either of the boards you mentioned
Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 7:59 am
by Elessar
Sounds great to me - when we start getting more fics up we'll do it.
Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:29 pm
by CX
Well, I've done my reviews, but it seems like not many people are interested in discussing them.
Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 4:54 pm
by Reanok
I like the idea of recommending stories it's the only way some of us get to read stories we've never heard of and introduce us to new authors.
Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 6:38 pm
by blacknblue
CX wrote:Well, I've done my reviews, but it seems like not many people are interested in discussing them.
Thing is CX, you kinda overwhelmed people IMO by posting them all at once. If you want to start a good argument, just throw out a single provocative statement and sit back. Someone will challenge you, then someone else will chime in, and soon enough you will have a nice little brouhaha going.
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 3:23 am
by CX
Ok... You all suck, except Rigil, he is a God among men.
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 4:18 am
by boushh
I like that idea
Rigil.
I'm figuring a thread for each fic would work. Though we shouldn't do too many at once. It might be hard for people to catch up and read along...
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 4:28 am
by Reanok
Discussing One story at time would be so much easier and less confusing than trying to read alot of recommended stories at once like Hot did last Summer I couldn't keep up with the reading list.
There were so many great stories to chose from and discuss.
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 7:42 pm
by Distracted
I agree. One at a time... and we should give the author a heads up so they can join in the discussion.
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:58 pm
by Rigil Kent
Question is: what story is first?
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:03 pm
by Distracted
Should we nominate someone to choose the stories? Make a list of volunteers like on HoT? Or just take the first suggestion that comes up?
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 6:57 am
by blacknblue
I'd say first come, first served.
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:02 am
by Rigil Kent
Maybe we should have non-authors recommend stories instead of it being an author submit another author thing...that way, we could get a feel about what the readers want to know about...