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PIMP: criticalfandom
Aug. 2nd, 2010 11:00 pmSo, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
apiphile said this: I need to find a comm for fannish discussion which centres on the quality, style, and execution of writing. Something which talks about how information is fed to the audience, about how things are paced, about the craftsmanship of the storytelling in the text (be it written or filmed) rather than the content of the writing/the story. I want to talk about how the author achieved X and Y effect, their choice of dialogue, their use of adverbs, their pacing and their sentence lengths, etc.
And by "not the content" I mean I don't want essays about how such and such may or may not have been racist, I am not interested in the social issues brought up by the story or the number of queer character or if women were correctly depicted. I am not interested in character detail or world-building at this point. I *am* interested in plotting processes and what evidence can be seen of particular types in a finished product.
And I immediately went: OH GOD YES, because there was no place for that:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
metafandom has the market cornered on all things political discussion, fandom politics and political readings of media, to point where it seems like all discussion of the writing side of things has been kind of drowned out.
SO LO, SHE CREATED criticalfandom.
For:
Fannish discussion of media (TV, films, books, comics) which focuses on the quality, style, and execution of the writing.
Discussion of how information is fed to an audience, at what speed and through what means.
Questions about how particular effects were achieved in writing; about the craftsmanship involved.
Debate about how specific texts (TV, films, books, comics) could have been improved; whether extra scenes or fewer ones were necessary.
Discussion of dialogue, of adverb and adjective choice, of euphony, of authorial style, of pacing and of sentence lengths.
Questions about terminology are also welcomed.
Join and pimp so we can get the ball rolling and some content up in here. I'm excited for this. Talk about how your favourite stuff is written! YES.
(If you join... or hey, if you don't... pimping of the comm would be much appreciated. It's brand spanking new and needs members to make it work. PLEASE PIMP?)
apiphile said this: I need to find a comm for fannish discussion which centres on the quality, style, and execution of writing. Something which talks about how information is fed to the audience, about how things are paced, about the craftsmanship of the storytelling in the text (be it written or filmed) rather than the content of the writing/the story. I want to talk about how the author achieved X and Y effect, their choice of dialogue, their use of adverbs, their pacing and their sentence lengths, etc.And by "not the content" I mean I don't want essays about how such and such may or may not have been racist, I am not interested in the social issues brought up by the story or the number of queer character or if women were correctly depicted. I am not interested in character detail or world-building at this point. I *am* interested in plotting processes and what evidence can be seen of particular types in a finished product.
And I immediately went: OH GOD YES, because there was no place for that:
metafandom has the market cornered on all things political discussion, fandom politics and political readings of media, to point where it seems like all discussion of the writing side of things has been kind of drowned out.criticalfandom.For:
Fannish discussion of media (TV, films, books, comics) which focuses on the quality, style, and execution of the writing.
Discussion of how information is fed to an audience, at what speed and through what means.
Questions about how particular effects were achieved in writing; about the craftsmanship involved.
Debate about how specific texts (TV, films, books, comics) could have been improved; whether extra scenes or fewer ones were necessary.
Discussion of dialogue, of adverb and adjective choice, of euphony, of authorial style, of pacing and of sentence lengths.
Questions about terminology are also welcomed.
Join and pimp so we can get the ball rolling and some content up in here. I'm excited for this. Talk about how your favourite stuff is written! YES.
(If you join... or hey, if you don't... pimping of the comm would be much appreciated. It's brand spanking new and needs members to make it work. PLEASE PIMP?)