It's complicated.

Charge questions about inserting into canon scenes by zdimensia on 2014-07-10 02:05:00 UTC Reply

What are the finer points of charging?

I'm going with plagiarism for annoying agents with read-throughs of scenes that the canon-savvy would know. I'm assuming descriptions written from visual media are just annoyances.

What about gloss-overs of the same? Or gloss-overs with the difference being the story?

Would it be worth charging for if the only thing added to the scene is sappy romance? Or perhaps just saying things for the sake of having a line?

Would it be a charge if an OC has insert knowledge, but follows canon in a stupid way? Does it make a difference if they've made alterations before coming back to the rails?

You wouldn't be taking on Parallel Realities by any chance? by AdmiralSakai on 2014-07-10 02:47:00 UTC Reply

1) This is actually a fine line. On one hand, you have the "Voldemort looked like Voldemort from the movie" style of writing where referencing source material is used as an unsuccessful crutch for beige prose, on the other you have ridiculous redundant description. As for the name, Herr Wozzek used "plot regurgitation" to describe it, although I for one am fond of saying "If I wanted to hear about I would just read/watch/play ", which could be condensed into some comedically large acronym?

2) See above.

3) Yes and yes.

4) Heck yes. Multiple charges, for stupidity, insert knowledge itself, and pointless plot regurgitation. Moreso for randomly returning to canon (because the author is lazy?) after diverging.

You are sporking PR, aren't you?

It's complicated. by zdimensia on 2014-07-10 03:01:00 UTC Reply

I'm not sure what constitutes a PR. The visual I think of is that a railway corridor shares space with a high-tension electrical corridor, and they just happen to let bicyclists use their access road to bolster their environmental image.

I'm looking at a few "OC as the video game character's girlfriend tagging along during the game" stories. I'm going for charging one as both interfering with canon, and not interfering with canon when the precognition would have been useful. The other is just copy-pasting the script without adding more than a line or two. Another says "the script happened," and then the insert twists the parts that aren't part of it.

Sorry, allow me to disambiguate. by AdmiralSakai on 2014-07-10 03:14:00 UTC Reply

Parallel Realities is a Mass Effect fanfic where 90% of the story is just a narration of the Mass Effect games. Herr Wozzek did a sporking of it a while back, and it's been tossed around as mission material ever since.

Re: Sorry, allow me to disambiguate. by zdimensia on 2014-07-10 03:39:00 UTC Reply

It's not Mass Effect, but I should read it just to see if I can adapt it to my questions.

And I think I fancy a ME2 character without actually playing the game.