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Elocutive I ain't.
Sep. 18th, 2002 01:15 amActually, elocution is voice. But it works for my purposes. I think.
Crantz wanted to know what I meant about the glass ceiling of Subreality. Kyri wants to break me into a million pieces with a ten-pound lump hammer (where's Kryten with a super-computer chip when ya need him?).
I shall attempt to be erudite. Or at least understandable.
Subreality fiction, as a whole, is a vast thing. There's all sorts. Cafe-fics, City-fics, RRs, and everything in-between (past, present, and future all rolled into one?). Collegium fics, Muse tales...
Recently, it came to pass that a lot of people thought Subreality's history was Too Difficult to grasp. That to have it all in a story, you have to read story after story... etc.
I don't believe so.. See, I've always thought of it as a sort of... well, for want of a better term, every new story is a different take on history, or a different 'reboot'. Yes, there are things that are established (Muses don't talk about this or that. The Cafe has a Bouncer and various Staff... There are Founders).
But there's a lot that isn't. You can do *any*thing in Subreality. You can write the beginning or the end, or just something in-between. And it doesn't have to march alongside ANY continuity of any sort.
As long as it's spell-checked and grammatically legible...
The idea of rebooting Subreality, starting it from scratch... hurts, I guess. Makes me feel like the hours and days spent agonizing over RR posts, stories posted, and stories yet unfinished were, and are, worthless.
Subreality never seemed like a difficult continuity to grasp. Point of fact, there really *isn't* any.
I'm digressing.
A lot of the newer writers (I'm not including the influx of old-timer TTR authors. They're nifty) don't... write well. At least, in my opinion. I read one or two, and I get bored, and go looking for something else to read.
But it reminds me that I didn't start out so great, either. I'm sure, today, reading some of the first stuff I did, I'd be going, "Well, she sucks."
Except that I don't want to wait for them to get away from the cliches and stupidity.
And I'm so tired of people falling in love with their Muses.
But that's a rant for another time.
So. I am the glass ceiling. I put myself on a pedestal above the newer authors, and mock them.
Why?
Because I'm petty like that.
And, well.... Because I can.
Crantz wanted to know what I meant about the glass ceiling of Subreality. Kyri wants to break me into a million pieces with a ten-pound lump hammer (where's Kryten with a super-computer chip when ya need him?).
I shall attempt to be erudite. Or at least understandable.
Subreality fiction, as a whole, is a vast thing. There's all sorts. Cafe-fics, City-fics, RRs, and everything in-between (past, present, and future all rolled into one?). Collegium fics, Muse tales...
Recently, it came to pass that a lot of people thought Subreality's history was Too Difficult to grasp. That to have it all in a story, you have to read story after story... etc.
I don't believe so.. See, I've always thought of it as a sort of... well, for want of a better term, every new story is a different take on history, or a different 'reboot'. Yes, there are things that are established (Muses don't talk about this or that. The Cafe has a Bouncer and various Staff... There are Founders).
But there's a lot that isn't. You can do *any*thing in Subreality. You can write the beginning or the end, or just something in-between. And it doesn't have to march alongside ANY continuity of any sort.
As long as it's spell-checked and grammatically legible...
The idea of rebooting Subreality, starting it from scratch... hurts, I guess. Makes me feel like the hours and days spent agonizing over RR posts, stories posted, and stories yet unfinished were, and are, worthless.
Subreality never seemed like a difficult continuity to grasp. Point of fact, there really *isn't* any.
I'm digressing.
A lot of the newer writers (I'm not including the influx of old-timer TTR authors. They're nifty) don't... write well. At least, in my opinion. I read one or two, and I get bored, and go looking for something else to read.
But it reminds me that I didn't start out so great, either. I'm sure, today, reading some of the first stuff I did, I'd be going, "Well, she sucks."
Except that I don't want to wait for them to get away from the cliches and stupidity.
And I'm so tired of people falling in love with their Muses.
But that's a rant for another time.
So. I am the glass ceiling. I put myself on a pedestal above the newer authors, and mock them.
Why?
Because I'm petty like that.
And, well.... Because I can.
