Subject: When exactly does "long" start?
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Posted on: 2022-12-27 22:29:18 UTC
I'm writing Part 2, taking your advice into conisderation.... but how many sentences counts as "long" for a quotation?
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A riff I wrote by
on 2022-12-27 20:25:08 UTC
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I've decided to write my own riff. This one's about that Ghostbusters badfic I mentioned a while back, and there will be two more parts coming.
- Here's the last part! by on 2023-01-10 22:20:20 UTC Reply
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I liked it! by
on 2023-01-10 22:49:02 UTC
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My comments are on the page itself.
—Ls
- Here's part two! by on 2023-01-03 20:33:45 UTC Reply
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Very good. by
on 2023-01-03 20:51:56 UTC
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I particularly liked that Egon was able to remove an entire bathroom.
—Ls
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Nice riff! by
on 2022-12-27 21:02:43 UTC
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I suspected it was you who submitted it, Discofurby.
It was pretty good—though there were some sections where the quotations went pretty long. You might want to consider summarizing if there’s nothing worthy being snarky over.
I really liked your “torso appreciations” comment. I’d theorize that those were ghosts who were athletically inclined, and only exercised their torsos, thus coming back as just torsos.
Thanks for the guest riff!
—Ls
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When exactly does "long" start? by
on 2022-12-27 22:29:18 UTC
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I'm writing Part 2, taking your advice into conisderation.... but how many sentences counts as "long" for a quotation?
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Maybe four paragraphs or so? It depends, though. by
on 2022-12-27 23:52:20 UTC
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This is not some concrete rule or harsh critique—just a (very) vague suggestion. Nevertheless, I’d say to just avoid overly long sections of quotation if possible.
You don’t have to restrict yourself to just snarky comments on the fanfic—you can include details on what the fictional version of yourself is doing, or create characters to comment on it with you. Em Kay’s good at doing that. If the fic is boring, you can say so. Physical reactions can be funny too! (You could even use a version of your Permissionless agents, though I’d avoid having them claim association with the PPC.)
Just try to keep things interesting.
—Ls