tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128460350781036829.post5801903297929198..comments2024-03-26T15:49:44.555+00:00Comments on How To Write Badly Well: FANFICTION WEEK #5: Kill off other people's charactersJoel Stickleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14270604410152020281noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128460350781036829.post-50861081565022231652010-08-11T04:55:43.555+01:002010-08-11T04:55:43.555+01:00I still think she's just gone to The Next Leve...I still think she's just gone to The Next Level.The Antipodean, a stubborn creature and never a big believer in authorial intention,noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128460350781036829.post-2374135071775181322010-08-10T09:30:02.988+01:002010-08-10T09:30:02.988+01:00No, no, Joel, thank you for writing badly well.No, no, Joel, thank <i>you</i> for writing badly well.the internethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128460350781036829.post-25419508575961244622010-08-09T13:31:32.244+01:002010-08-09T13:31:32.244+01:00Not to pound the issue into the ground or anything...Not to pound the issue into the ground or anything, but <i>span</i> has seen plenty of use in verse, where an extra rhyme is very handy. "When Adam delved and Eve span / Who was then the gentleman?" was a 14th century slogan (slightly modernized) about human equality, for example.John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128460350781036829.post-52713469808224941382010-08-08T19:13:43.770+01:002010-08-08T19:13:43.770+01:00hmmm....no wonder your jane eyre seems so familiar...hmmm....no wonder your jane eyre seems so familiar. she reminds me of terry pratchett's susan sto helit character.<br />(both stern teacher types in unlikely combat scenarios....)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128460350781036829.post-39918473371507560522010-08-08T11:52:49.938+01:002010-08-08T11:52:49.938+01:00I should probably have called it "Kill off ot...I should probably have called it "Kill off other people's characters" – as Derrill points out, there's nothing wrong with killing off characters per se; it's killing off Jane Eyre specifically that's the problem. You know what? I'm going to change it. Thanks, internet, for allowing me a second chance.Joel Stickleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14270604410152020281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128460350781036829.post-62378752144331003742010-08-08T08:50:22.316+01:002010-08-08T08:50:22.316+01:00Ooh, ooh, or she's a Time Lord.Ooh, ooh, <i>or</i> she's a Time Lord.The Antipodean had a revelation andnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128460350781036829.post-55699255666657286312010-08-08T08:47:37.388+01:002010-08-08T08:47:37.388+01:00She's not dead, she's Ascended. Or in anot...She's not dead, she's Ascended. Or in another dimension. Or about to be resurrected by a spell which will unbalance all of reality. Or she's an enchantress and actually has nine lives. <br /><br />We all know she's not dead, because she goes on to many more adventures and eventually lives happily ever after - well, as happy as a Bronte character gets. Unless, of course, that's the badly part: kill off characters in completely non-canon ways.The Antipodeannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128460350781036829.post-31271696327527748682010-08-06T22:53:26.737+01:002010-08-06T22:53:26.737+01:00now bring her back to life!
the soapie writers do ...now bring her back to life!<br />the soapie writers do that all the time to their characters.... and im pretty sure u dont get worse than that....<br /><br />jane. <br />(doe)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128460350781036829.post-62429715961741144592010-08-06T21:40:49.447+01:002010-08-06T21:40:49.447+01:00So authors write badly when they *don't* kill ...So authors write badly when they *don't* kill characters off (rescue them against impossible odds) and when they *do*?? My only beef is when the death is so inevitable, the character is screaming "Red shirt over here!"<br /><br />That said, "Continue Y/N" was brilliant.Derrill Watsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08996812965100062495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128460350781036829.post-74281490454090355032010-08-06T18:42:43.965+01:002010-08-06T18:42:43.965+01:00Y!Y!MarcTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128460350781036829.post-36621308340454727182010-08-06T16:42:04.278+01:002010-08-06T16:42:04.278+01:00I've corrected it. Sorry, Carlyle; sorry, Ouid...I've corrected it. Sorry, Carlyle; sorry, Ouida. I've betrayed the brotherhood of "span."Joel Stickleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14270604410152020281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128460350781036829.post-76717159839536808822010-08-06T16:39:27.872+01:002010-08-06T16:39:27.872+01:00How interesting – that must be a quirk of my own u...How interesting – that must be a quirk of my own usage. As the only backup I have on that is from the nineteenth century, I think it's fair to say that I'm on the wrong side of history on this one. "Spun around" doesn't quite sit right with me for some reason. On the other hand, I would say that the wheels spun and that the cloth-maker spun, so it stands to reason that a person should have spun as well.<br /><br />(I also have a compulsive need to write "thankyou" as one word, but I tend to suppress that quirk during editing.)Joel Stickleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14270604410152020281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128460350781036829.post-14890704422404582382010-08-06T15:18:48.709+01:002010-08-06T15:18:48.709+01:00Do you really use span as the past tense of spin, ...Do you really use <i>span</i> as the past tense of <i>spin</i>, or is that just part of writing badly, well or otherwise? The OED2 reports only Carlyle (1865) and Ouida (1882) using <i>span</i> for <i>spun</i> in plain prose; the OED3 hasn't reached <i>spin</i> yet.John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1128460350781036829.post-14425774335407903332010-08-06T13:59:45.441+01:002010-08-06T13:59:45.441+01:00I laughed when i saw Jane Eyre!
And again when I ...I laughed when i saw Jane Eyre!<br /><br />And again when I saw "electric bombs" :Dexpressionatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11037185562234723775noreply@blogger.com