Eek, I just noticed that the option that says "Depends on the Author" should really be "Depends on the story". I also forgot the "Both" option for the first question. That's why I get for posting when I should be sleeping
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(I'll be back with my opinion after class)
EDIT -
Ok now I am back from boring class and gossipy lunch and ready to respond.
Yes, Anni, I know essential is misspelled. Too bad. I don't care. I don't think I actually know *how* to spell it. Like I've always admitted, spelling is not my forte and I've never liked it, so I've never tried to learn how to do it.
I think introspection is great and absolutely necessary to a story. However, I don't read at all outside of fanfic, so I have no idea any of the authors you all are referring to
, but I know that in fanfic, both when I read and when I write, I like to know what the characters are thinking. Admittedly, I am not a big fan of thougts in <<>>. It throws me out of the story. The reason I don't beta read for anyone is that I would try to reword anything in <<>> to make it straight sentances without <<>>, and that isn't always effective at getting the message across.
This conversation I had came up with a friend of mine because of a fdk email I got on one of my stories. This person said they didn't usually like stories with no dialogue. And I didn't see how someone could *not* like stories without dialogue. I was wondering if this was a popular opinion that people hated stories without dialogue. They are my favorite stories, both to read and to write. I love to read character's inner musings to see what they were thinking.
Must be why my stories aren't the most popular
-- either that or it's because my writing sucks -- or because I write mostly 4th season stories (because I like my characters mostly happy)-- much more likely
. My writing style is very wordy and very introspective
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- Laura
