10 Feb
2001
10 Feb
'01
11:12 a.m.
Tavia said:
We came to the conclusion that some of the problem [of ellipsis-
filled fanfic dialogue] might be that many fanfic
writers spend a lot of time on the internet and so develop text-based ways of conveying emotion, including italics, ellipsis and emoticons, which
they
then find tricky to disgard when writing fiction.
I think it also stems from fanfic's origin in a television show--if I could, I really would post B7 movies, but fanfic is all I can manage. If you can't have a film clip or sound file, the least you can do is indicate line readings.
-(Y)