It's frustrating as a reader and disappointing as a writer to continue to see stories that are either all story or all style. Sometimes, the plot just screams to me. It can be so raw and evocative and interesting and full of these brilliant intuitive jumps. ...But the writer lacks the effort/ability/interest in conveying the story in a new and interesting.
Or--and this is what you're talking about--it feels like the writer is just throwing metaphor and description at us because "Ahahaha, look at what I can do! I am so creative and witty and art-ee-stic!" But the story is empty. No plot. No development. No solid characterization.
What we need to do, really, if you look at it in the most logical and plausible way possible, is wrangle all of these writers up--the plot!writers and the style!writers--lock them in a room full of computers and pads of paper and make them collaborate. And then maybe we'd have some decent fic to read when we're suffering from insomnia at 5am goddamnit. XD
(Also, a small, paranoid part of my brain is hoping that it isn't my work you're talking about, because I know I can go a little overboard with the metaphors now and again in everything I write. LOL)
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It's frustrating as a reader and disappointing as a writer to continue to see stories that are either all story or all style. Sometimes, the plot just screams to me. It can be so raw and evocative and interesting and full of these brilliant intuitive jumps. ...But the writer lacks the effort/ability/interest in conveying the story in a new and interesting.
Or--and this is what you're talking about--it feels like the writer is just throwing metaphor and description at us because "Ahahaha, look at what I can do! I am so creative and witty and art-ee-stic!" But the story is empty. No plot. No development. No solid characterization.
What we need to do, really, if you look at it in the most logical and plausible way possible, is wrangle all of these writers up--the plot!writers and the style!writers--lock them in a room full of computers and pads of paper and make them collaborate. And then maybe we'd have some decent fic to read when we're suffering from insomnia at 5am goddamnit. XD
(Also, a small, paranoid part of my brain is hoping that it isn't my work you're talking about, because I know I can go a little overboard with the metaphors
now and againin everything I write. LOL)