Subject: Thank you!
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Posted on: 2012-08-18 16:30:00 UTC
About the foresight ... I find it a difficult line to walk. It's about keeping it realistic versus just getting the charge made and getting it over with.
And occasionally (in other missions) I have had my agents erase a charge when it turned out later that something actually did make sense.
But now that I think about it, maybe in the future I could smooth some of it over, by sending the agents much more detailed Intelligence Reports and having them refer to those. "Oh, the Intelligence Report mentioned that the fic had not even bothered to look up the names of some of the characters," Mittens said. "This must be one of those cases."
I did in fact notice the HP crossover, but I didn't have any great ideas except to drag Cedric Digory in for a cameo, so I let it slide. So no minis there. Not like the Agents need another mini-Aragog anyway.
I've thought long and hard about how many direct quotes to use. I think that there's even a bit of a school of thought among some Boarders, that direct quotes should be kept to an absolute minimum. And the Original Series certainly got by without using a lot.
So why I am so fond of them? Partly because my missions and way of making fun of the badness are very much influenced by the Nostalgia Critic and since that show is about movies and clips from the actual bad scenes are shown, it spills over into my form of missionwriting and the natural thing for me becomes to show the clip, rather than paraphrase it.
And I suppose I also simply have a twisted sense of justice. I want to the evidence out there for people to see for themselves, that no, I did not make it up and I did not exaggerate it.
But yeah, that is a balance as well and something I will have to mull over.
Oh dear, I hope it doesn't sound like I'm making a lot of excuses, because I know how annoying that is. I'm merely trying to explain how I think when I write and that there are still some things I am struggling with finding the balance in. I admit I'm far from perfect, but I try to improve with every mission and I'm grateful for your and Ellipsis Flood's comments.
(At least I've gotten over my fixation that every single charge must be witnessed and written down (and later read). I did that at one point and it made for incredibly long missions.)