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Dec. 14th, 2006 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vulgarweedMy hate for the new posting interface knows no bounds. If you knew what ancient browser I was using, you might know how it just makes some things downright impossible for me. ICK.
Like, right now, I can't see what I'm typing because my icon has inexplicably migrated into the text boxto be in the way.. Oh, LJ. When will you ever learn to fix the things that ARE broken, and don't fix the things that ain't: this is Southern Common Sense 001; Remedial.
But here's something that ain't broken:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
r_becca has a fabulous post on A Guide To Participating In Fic Exchanges. Oh HELL yes.
One trend I've noticed at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
go_exchange this year that is super-cool? Long fics are happening. We've got one 21,000-word novella, a 14-page comic, another clocking in at 15,000 words or so, and a handful of 8,000-ish worders. I'm not one of these people who believes long fics are superior in any way inherently to shorter ones--I'm a short-story writer at heart myself, my longest fic ever so far was about 20k--but it is a form of storytelling that definitely has its own rewards, and there haven't been all that many of those in GO fandom lately, and it's great to see people really allowing themselves the room to stretch out. Did our longer deadline this year make that possible? At any rate, it's great to see.
Oh, and happily, there have been some posts atlower_tadfield lately that weren't GOE-related, thank Someone, that unbroken Wall o' Spam was starting to worry me. And both of 'em absolutely fabulous fanart: thank you bonemeadow and andreanna, you made my week!
Like, right now, I can't see what I'm typing because my icon has inexplicably migrated into the text boxto be in the way.. Oh, LJ. When will you ever learn to fix the things that ARE broken, and don't fix the things that ain't: this is Southern Common Sense 001; Remedial.
But here's something that ain't broken:
r_becca has a fabulous post on A Guide To Participating In Fic Exchanges. Oh HELL yes.One trend I've noticed at
go_exchange this year that is super-cool? Long fics are happening. We've got one 21,000-word novella, a 14-page comic, another clocking in at 15,000 words or so, and a handful of 8,000-ish worders. I'm not one of these people who believes long fics are superior in any way inherently to shorter ones--I'm a short-story writer at heart myself, my longest fic ever so far was about 20k--but it is a form of storytelling that definitely has its own rewards, and there haven't been all that many of those in GO fandom lately, and it's great to see people really allowing themselves the room to stretch out. Did our longer deadline this year make that possible? At any rate, it's great to see.Oh, and happily, there have been some posts at
lower_tadfield lately that weren't GOE-related, thank Someone, that unbroken Wall o' Spam was starting to worry me. And both of 'em absolutely fabulous fanart: thank you bonemeadow and andreanna, you made my week!
