- I'm sensing a theme here.
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tir_synni wrote in
fanficrants
- November 12th, 21:37
YMMV, but if you're going to write a story based on or inspired by or even starting with a theme, wouldn't it make sense to keep it going rather than toss it out there and than go off on something else?
For example: someone requests a kink like watersports and someone else merrily agrees to write it. That kink appears for two sentences, enough to get it done, and then it's never touched on again. Wasn't that kink one of the main points of the fic? Shouldn't it have a bit more screen-time than two sentences? That feels incredibly cheap to me.
Another example: you start writing how Character A has had homosexual sex and Character B hasn't. You make a point of saying that B is uncomfortable with the thought, going so far as refusing to speak of it even while you imply that Character B isn't totally opposed to it. You have still made it clear that it's an uncomfortable subject. Immediately after that, you jump on the gay sex between A and B. You just completely dropped your previous point. You could have had a very interesting running theme and given the characters more depth, and instead you just jumped straight past that point and to the sex. What was the point of bringing it up then?
Definitely YMMV, but if you're going to bother introducing the theme or writing something based on a theme, shouldn't you stick with the theme? In a longer work, there are multiple themes, true, and the focus on one in particular could be lost, but in a shorter fic? You couldn't hold it that long?