10 Feb
2001
10 Feb
'01
10:16 a.m.
In message 01C0931E.3F958780.tavia@btinternet.com, Tavia Chalcraft tavia@btinternet.com writes
Curiously enough my non-B7 fan (and non-writer) other half made precisely the same criticism this evening on perusal of some of the TTBA proofs. We came to the conclusion that some of the problem might be that many fanfic writers spend a lot of time on the internet and so develop text-based ways of conveying emotion, including italics, ellipsis and emoticons, which they then find tricky to disgard when writing fiction.
This is certainly true for me, although it spills over more into non-net equivalents of mailing lists (letters, notes, etc) than fiction writing.
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Julia Jones