Captain Uccisore wrote...
Emperor Iaius I wrote...
I'm strongly considering writing a character-driven piece describing the action between Acts and showing how Merrill got used to city life. It'll be the opposite of steamy.
That's the 10% I'm talking about.
I'm glad. I really just want to write about a Tevinter magister, but I feel it'd be self-insertion and I imagine that nobody would want to read it but me. In writing Merrill, I feel an obligation to not only write her properly, but to correct misconceptions about her at the same time. I don't think people realize just how WEIRD Kirkwall is for her. I mean, goodness, at least Morrigan had been to Lothering and such before--this is all new to Merrill, and the only human she'd ever met was Duncan.
So I guess a Merrill story would have a wider audience and be more canon--and really, I always try to stick to canon as much as possible.
Maria Caliban wrote...
It's difficult for me to respond as I suspect my definition of literary masturbation isn't the same as yours. To me, literary masturbation is when a writer uses self-consciously elegant and stylistic prose in a way that obscures or supersedes content (or often lack of content).
It's something I see in people working for their MFAs while fanfiction tends to be plain* in style.
*middle-class
I would probably use the term the same way: self-satisfactory purple prose. That said, I hate how pedestrian most fanfics are. My work is redolent with random archaisms (the product of reading too many 19th century works in translation), but you'd think that people would recognize that contemporary slang doesn't belong in a fantasy world. That, and it's nice to vary one's prose based on the PoV of the speaker.
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