Subject: About abandoning ships (or not boarding them at all)
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Posted on: 2012-03-01 17:26:00 UTC

There are mainly two kind of fics PPC-wise.

Those with which you can have fun, and those who just don't work (with you. Maybe others will be able to make a good mission out of it, since everybody has his own mission style).

For example, I tend to be picky when searching for a sporkable fic. Why?

Because not all the fics go well with my mission-writing style.

I just finished an extensive research in Card Captor Sakura, and I ended up choosing an hurt/comfort one. Not actually from grammar and writing (in fact, technical charges are completely absent) but because the plot was flimsy at best (Syaoran being blind for no reason at all, for example, and three Generic Rapists with no brain whatsoever. Oh, and let's not forget Healing Sex.)

I had to pass several other fics because all of them didn't suit for my writing at all:

- One was seventeen chapters long. It would have took me too much time to read all of it, and I tend to pace better missions in short ones.
- One was too squicky. You will not get summary or links from me, I'm still shivering. Despite the fact that I want that... that... thing deader than dead, I'm not going to prod it with a mile-long pole.
- Others were probably trolls, and too short for even a MST. Besides that, no fun potential.
- The last one is on my kill-list, but there aren't enough chapters yet to write a good mission. I have to wait a while.

So, if you don't feel like sporking it anymore, just give it up and search something different. Reember, it's not a job - we're here to have fun.

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