Ok, speaking in defense for my beloved Lost and Found.
I do accept that the writing is rather torrid and overblown for some tastes, because basically we're having fun writing it that way. But to say that we're not aware of the pair's failings is strange as we're writing them eminently flawed. And far from blaming previous lovers, the two boys are doing their best to take all the blame on themselves. Well, apart from Spike and Angelus, but that's in character.
Also, considering we have a fairly tightly plotted outline that takes us through months of the two blokes' lives, I do not consider the story to be aimless. It is unashamedly a romance however, and not a serious fic. I do understand how you get the impression of aimlessness because it is the nature of RPG to take a while to get to any point at all, but I can assure you that we are working to very definite aims.
RPG is a very different form of fic, and there are many critisisms that can fairly be applied to it, for instance the unbeta'ed nature can be annoying, especially when combined with the inability to edit LJ comments after the thread has moved on.
So it is perfectly reasonable that it not be your cup of tea. I really just wanted to dispute the finger pointing claims. Maybe it's because I know what's to come, but we are *so* not doing that.
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Re: RPG Wes/Spike
Date: 2002-12-13 03:56 am (UTC)I do accept that the writing is rather torrid and overblown for some tastes, because basically we're having fun writing it that way. But to say that we're not aware of the pair's failings is strange as we're writing them eminently flawed. And far from blaming previous lovers, the two boys are doing their best to take all the blame on themselves. Well, apart from Spike and Angelus, but that's in character.
Also, considering we have a fairly tightly plotted outline that takes us through months of the two blokes' lives, I do not consider the story to be aimless. It is unashamedly a romance however, and not a serious fic. I do understand how you get the impression of aimlessness because it is the nature of RPG to take a while to get to any point at all, but I can assure you that we are working to very definite aims.
RPG is a very different form of fic, and there are many critisisms that can fairly be applied to it, for instance the unbeta'ed nature can be annoying, especially when combined with the inability to edit LJ comments after the thread has moved on.
So it is perfectly reasonable that it not be your cup of tea. I really just wanted to dispute the finger pointing claims. Maybe it's because I know what's to come, but we are *so* not doing that.
Cheers