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transposable_element) wrote2016-07-22 12:56 pm
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Dear NFE writer
First, thank you! I'm looking forward to this so much, and I hope you're having fun writing.
As for what I like and don't like, mostly the answer is "it depends." At the moment I'm looking for something relatively light-hearted and fun, although if you're using the Andrew Ketterly prompt I could see it going fairly dark. There are very few things I would say a flat-out no to: graphic torture; extended graphic violence; incest; rape. If you want to write about the worst impulses of human nature, then I prefer to see it leavened with loyalty, courage, and kindness. I prefer gen, but a little romance is fine.
Things I especially like:
As for what I like and don't like, mostly the answer is "it depends." At the moment I'm looking for something relatively light-hearted and fun, although if you're using the Andrew Ketterly prompt I could see it going fairly dark. There are very few things I would say a flat-out no to: graphic torture; extended graphic violence; incest; rape. If you want to write about the worst impulses of human nature, then I prefer to see it leavened with loyalty, courage, and kindness. I prefer gen, but a little romance is fine.
Things I especially like:
- world-building
- backstory, both for characters and the world itself
- underdogs
- characters being in character (acknowledging that people's interpretations of the same character differ)
- a world that feels rich and real
- unexpected or incongruous friendships
- romance that goes against gender and/or sex stereotypes
- actually, anything that goes against gender and/or sex stereotypes
- snappy dialog
- non-sentimentalized parent-child relationships
- cultural complexity
- political complexity
- characters working through difficult problems
- mythology and folklore
- slice of life stories
- things I wouldn't think of myself (like what? I don't know!)