Can I make this into a metadiscussion about fic? (laughs wickedly). I know the type of fic you're refering to - chock full of cliches and tropes, color-by-numbers plot points...but I like to think that some of that drivel is the drivel of a beginning writer, or a writer with little confidence in their own imagination. Hopefully, some of those writers will break out of the paint-by-numbers approach and become dissatisfied with the yes-man audience.
But the situation you speak of sounds more like performance art, written for externals than internal reasons. (not that all performance art is like that - more like a class clown desperate for attention, that sort of performance art)
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Date: 2004-12-28 06:47 pm (UTC)But the situation you speak of sounds more like performance art, written for externals than internal reasons. (not that all performance art is like that - more like a class clown desperate for attention, that sort of performance art)