not the mark of a good author if they have to further explain something rather than telling it in the story itself Exactly! And I believe you’ll manage to show how those elements from other “canons” work, just in the way we can show how our own extrapolations of HP magic (like my Magic of Images or the wandless magic my Remus refers to in the fics you’ve read) work.
I’m glad the language in the fics by me you’ve read didn’t seem to you to be “not my language”. I wonder why writers want to make such statements. I reveal my native language in comment threads like this or in private messages only rarely and only to people who’ve already read some fic by me. I guess not even the beta I’ve had since last year knows. I don’t know about fluency, but I’ve sometimes noticed that people with other mother tongues follow rules of grammar even more correctly than native speakers.
Oh, such prolific, active readers are a treasure and deserve praise! I was nominated for the Kindest Reader (while Remus Lupin and the Revolt of the Creatures was nominated for the Best Multi-Chapter story) at the Deathly Hallows Awards in 2010, but I never read very much (no high-rated fics), and it was rather that I posted detailed comments.
That’s an interesting point about fandoms having become mainstream. At the same time, for instance on a current friending meme on DW, HP looks almost like a niche. The HP fandom as a whole must be huge and evolving on different platforms, but I’d like to belong to a group of HP writers in a cosy corner, such as some LJ communities used to be.
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I’m glad the language in the fics by me you’ve read didn’t seem to you to be “not my language”. I wonder why writers want to make such statements. I reveal my native language in comment threads like this or in private messages only rarely and only to people who’ve already read some fic by me. I guess not even the beta I’ve had since last year knows. I don’t know about fluency, but I’ve sometimes noticed that people with other mother tongues follow rules of grammar even more correctly than native speakers.
Oh, such prolific, active readers are a treasure and deserve praise! I was nominated for the Kindest Reader (while Remus Lupin and the Revolt of the Creatures was nominated for the Best Multi-Chapter story) at the Deathly Hallows Awards in 2010, but I never read very much (no high-rated fics), and it was rather that I posted detailed comments.
That’s an interesting point about fandoms having become mainstream. At the same time, for instance on a current friending meme on DW, HP looks almost like a niche. The HP fandom as a whole must be huge and evolving on different platforms, but I’d like to belong to a group of HP writers in a cosy corner, such as some LJ communities used to be.