Okay, now that I've seen the poll - interesting responses.

I hit other on both questions. Firstly because I tend to think introspection covers both options A and B, as others have said. Secondly, because I kind of think it depends more on the story, rather than the author, for me.

I was surprised to find 56% on 'essential to a story', because I'm not sure I would agree - coming from a tradition where I wrote plenty of fanfic without a whiff of introspection before writing for LNC and it didn't seem to harm them any. goofy And I've enjoyed many introspection-free stories here in FoLCdom too. So that was a very interesting perspective to see.

I'd be very interested in hearing from some of those who voted for that option on why they have that opinion.


LabRat smile (don't you just love these polls? Fascinating stuff... )


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Aramis: Yes, sorry.
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