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tellitslant) wrote2011-12-15 06:13 pm
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Help me, flist-wan kenobi: anyone know if there's a good list of fanfic cliches anywhere, in a comm or something? I know about the one on fanlore, but that is both kinks and cliches - I'm looking for cliche-only, stuff like "aliens made them do it" and "stuck in a Canadian shack" and so on. Please and thank you? :D
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And someone wrote a really good post about how not to write Sanctuary fic, specifically, but I can't find it now -- I know I got there via
... I'm not being very useful, am I.
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Here's the
But a lot of those seem to me to be more general tropes -- I wouldn't really call "character study" or "darkfic" or "threesomes" or "epistolary fic" cliches. And it's missing some that I think should definitely be in there, like nightmares (lead to comfortsex) and "undercover in a gay bar!"
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And that way I could get the ball rolling sooner rather than later - with a week or so to compile cliches, a week to post prompts, and then maybe two weeks to write, I could probably start things before New Year's, or thereabouts. *g* And I don't want to wait - I want ALL OF THE FIC, NOW. (Someone HAS TO write Nikola undercover in a gay bar.) But at least now I've got a couple of lists to start from...
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I'm feeling a bit fae.