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#fanficproblems
guys i can’t emphasise enough how important this is
please consider all of these factors facing fanfic writers, who are doing this for fun and no return whatsoever beyond the love of the thing. thank you.
Fixed.
Preach.
This just keeps getting more real. The truth hurts.
okay but has anyone considered
(disclaimer: I have no particular problem with any of the people in the thread above; I’m just nitpicky and easily amused.)
Okay, SO. The main problem is that Venn Diagrams are used to contrast things and to look at the relationships among a list of items.
The “writer’s problems” venn diagram above is really just a list of items, not an examination of their relationships. Wrong format.
Even the original “reader’s problem” diagram, which is looking at the relationships among items is being a bit sneaky, because while it is apparently highlighting the trade offs among three variables (plot, grammar, characterization) there is actually a stealth fourth variable (update frequency) referenced in the middle, which should actually be a fourth circle, or rather sphere, because once you go up to four variables you have to add another axis of variation and project the chart into 3 dimensions.
And there should still be a hypothetical center region that contains all four elements of the ideal fic, although possibly the joke is that it is undiscoverable with the aid of a microscope and the blessing of the fanfic gods.
But, right, that whole thing would turn out super confusing visually, so it’s probably just as well they did not start extrapolating wildly into the nth-dimension.
Okay, returning to the “writer’s problems” venn diagram(s). This is a list, so it doesn’t translate well to the medium being parodied. Extra problem: it doesn’t really work as a rebuttal of the original? This is because most of the points being addressed aren’t actually relevant to the original diagram and therefore don’t have parallels. (Whole aside here about how I find both the reader *and* writer problems diagrams funny, and in no way invalidating of each other. I AM AT THE CENTER OF THE VENN DIAGRAM OVERLAPPING THESE PROBLEM SETS, OK.)
So, yeah.
Option 1: Focus on the original post to allow a more direct satire/rebuttal. You could try to rework the first diagram by addressing each section of the original diagram point-by-point, but… eh. That only really accounts for the education/language points addressing the grammar issues, and a couple of the points addressing the update frequency issue (which is an invisible axis of variation anyway, so really hard to wedge rebuttals to onto the diagram). And there’s no really good parallels for the “plot” or “characterization” issues except maybe…. “inability to create good plot” or “readers don’t agree with my characterization”. Which. Eh. Maybe the rarepairs point? idek. I don’t think this works.
Option 2: keep the points being made, abandon the format. Make a bullet list!
Option 3: abandon the actual points being made, keep the format. For this, you need to narrow down a list of variables that interrelate and focus on the trade-offs writers face among them. Or in other words, create a project triangle (”x, y, z: pick two”)
, which is really what the first diagram is doing anyway.
In fact, let’s just make a triangle:
oooh, elegant.
or, okay, here, AN HONEST-TO-GOD VENN DIAGRAM, just for y’all:
TA DAH
(I made the invisible 4th axis ‘writing obscure topics’, my personal nemesis)
OH MY GOD YESI’m “writer’s block again”, and “ability/energy to write”
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