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Oct. 28th, 2006 10:06 pmI wish we could subdivide science fiction and fantasy into useful subcatagories. Seriously.
Over on the nanowrimo forums, it's kind of weird for the people who plan to write novels about chick-lit vampires to be sharing space with the people who are writing Tolkien-ripoffs. Technically, they're all fantasy.
But *hell* if they don't need their own forums. Their own catagories, really.
And the Tolkein-ripoffs have to stand on *that* side of the internet, thanks.
I also wish books came with ratings, warnings, and useful summaries. Like fan fiction does. Because as reader friendliness goes, fan fiction is much better organized, labeled, and distributed.
Of course, it's not controlled by the large, uncaring corporate crap-mill publishing companies who'll reprint twenty different versions of something that wasn't that good the first time as long as people who have nowhere else to go keep buying it.
Sorry. Completely unpublished writer speaking. *coughs*. Watch me try to erase this and/or backpedal like a kid switching from a Huffy to a 10-Speed should I get a book deal. *snorts* Speaking of fantasy...
I think it would be most helpful if books, instead of having completely innacurate blurbs on the back had such markers as "slash" or "R Rated" or "Warning: faeries and lesbians". Because then, I'd know exactly which books to grab like I do when I go to an online archive.
On an online archive I can say, "don't care for canon het, me. Best avoid this pairing" or "I'm in the mood for some hot man-on-man-on-man loving. Where's those slashy threesomes?" or "I need some House/Cuddy". Because they're frelling marked in a practical way.
*sigh*
Over on the nanowrimo forums, it's kind of weird for the people who plan to write novels about chick-lit vampires to be sharing space with the people who are writing Tolkien-ripoffs. Technically, they're all fantasy.
But *hell* if they don't need their own forums. Their own catagories, really.
And the Tolkein-ripoffs have to stand on *that* side of the internet, thanks.
I also wish books came with ratings, warnings, and useful summaries. Like fan fiction does. Because as reader friendliness goes, fan fiction is much better organized, labeled, and distributed.
Of course, it's not controlled by the large, uncaring corporate crap-mill publishing companies who'll reprint twenty different versions of something that wasn't that good the first time as long as people who have nowhere else to go keep buying it.
Sorry. Completely unpublished writer speaking. *coughs*. Watch me try to erase this and/or backpedal like a kid switching from a Huffy to a 10-Speed should I get a book deal. *snorts* Speaking of fantasy...
I think it would be most helpful if books, instead of having completely innacurate blurbs on the back had such markers as "slash" or "R Rated" or "Warning: faeries and lesbians". Because then, I'd know exactly which books to grab like I do when I go to an online archive.
On an online archive I can say, "don't care for canon het, me. Best avoid this pairing" or "I'm in the mood for some hot man-on-man-on-man loving. Where's those slashy threesomes?" or "I need some House/Cuddy". Because they're frelling marked in a practical way.
*sigh*
