[FFML] [fanfic][Harry Potter][spoilerish] New Student (draft)

[skychan]

Actually I liked the prologue.  I have of course read book 7 but I don't
think it really hurts.  Its not pages and pages long and it is just long
enough to establish Dudly's age, and softening of attitude.  What I think
gets long is when people insist on retelling the entire start of the ranma
epoch from china word and line by line this avoids that and so I think its
alright.

On 8/22/07, Robert Atendido <ratendido at mac.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your comments!
>
> >Blah, blah, blah.  You're falling into what I call the "Sandborn Effect":
> >starting your fic with a bunch of expository stuff.  Nothing turns off
> >readers like huge blocks of uninteresting text to begin a story.  (Mind
> you,
> >Greg got a lot better at this and in fact went back to correct this in
> some
> >of his earlier fics.)
>
> Yeah, I'm afraid I do this a lot.  For some reason, I get into the frame
> of mind that says the person reading my story might not have all the
> background information at hand.  It's like I forget the target audience of
> fanfic...
>
> Actually, I used to write out the obvious in papers for college classes as
> well.  A couple of English profs cured me of that for a while.
>
>
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