In a message dated 2/20/01 5:38:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, nydersdyner@yahoo.co.uk writes:
<< And I also sometimes feel as if nobody really questions the concept at all--like it's just assumed that everyone's OK with this. >>
Maybe that's because in American fandom, as a rule, hurt/comfort is "standard" in fan fiction and therefore it probably *is* assumed that everyone's "okay" with it. In fact, hurt/comfort is a standard in pro fiction, as well, even in something as "nuts and bolts" as mainline SF. I can only quote from one of my favorite authors, Orson Scott Card, a winner of multiple Hugos (actually I will paraphrase). Scott says find the character in your story who hurts the most... and hurt him SOME MORE.
You really can't write a story that involves the reader emotionally without putting the hero/heroine into trouble.
Annie
From: Ashton7@aol.com
You really can't write a story that involves the reader emotionally
without
putting the hero/heroine into trouble.
Absolutely true, but h/c is all about putting the hero into trouble so *someone else* can pull him through the fires of hell etc.
Whereas if I put Jenna or Cally through the wringer, it would be to show how tough they are, ruggedly battling on against all odds etc.
Neil
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In a message dated 2/20/01 5:38:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, nydersdyner@yahoo.co.uk writes:
<< And I also sometimes feel as if nobody really questions the concept at all--like it's just assumed that everyone's OK with this. >>
Maybe that's because in American fandom, as a rule, hurt/comfort is "standard" in fan fiction and therefore it probably *is* assumed that everyone's "okay" with it.
OK. But since this is a mixed list, with members from all around the world, perhaps this shouldn't be assumed? I mean, other than a few people who've said outright that they're American, or for whom their e-mail address or their speech tags give them away, I can't tell the Americans from everybody else, online :).
You really can't write a story that involves the reader emotionally
without
putting the hero/heroine into trouble.
Oh, no, not at all! It's the *kind* of trouble the hero/heroine was getting into that put me off.
Fiona
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