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Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

Disagree. If a book is written in fanfic style/Ao3 style/straightforward prose then that’s what the recip wants and so even if you consider it a style it isn’t a pistache they dislike.

Including footnotes, tangents, breaking the forth wall, tossing in poems or songs, etc that may be a specific style of the original canon is easy to spot and would have been easy to avoid.

They grey area is if someone wants to write your Star Trek novel in the style of say, Tolkien with random songs and geneology thrown in. They aren’t doing a pistache of the source canon but they still stuck. Of course morbane and the mods are known for siding with authors so I doubt this recip would get an EPH but that’s not a problem with the DNW.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

fanfic style/Ao3 style/straightforward prose

And that is what exactly?

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

Show not tell narration, generally 3rd person limited or omnipotent, usually one narrator POV rather than alternating, scene breaks, no footnotes, no songs or poetry as a part of the narration or as scene breaks, no breaking the fourth wall, no EXTERIOR: JOHNS HOUSE, DAY. scene directions, speech is anchored by dialogue tags.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

If that's what the OP wants, they should list the DNWs out separately (except for the first, because I don't think "DNW: telling rather than showing" is enforceable):

"DNW: 1st or 2nd person narration; chatty narrator; alternating POV; footnotes and other paratext; extradiegetic songs or poetry; breaking the fourth wall; scene directions; script-format."

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

+1 except for chatty narrator. That one is subjective.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

If you phrase it as "chatty" narrator - but in omniscient POV you do have a distinction between "visible" narrators who have their own narrative voice and comment on the story, and "invisible" narrators who don't interject their own viewpoint into the narration, and you can very well dnw the first one.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

+1 Agree.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

I'm imagining a pistache is a mustache made of pistachios. Or possibly a pistachio with a mustache, who can say.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

but if a book is written in fanfic style/straightforward prose, that is still a pastiche. it's emulating the style of the book. so called straightforward prose may not be how your writer writes normally.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

If a book is written in fanfic style/Ao3 style/straightforward prose then that’s what the recip wants and so even if you consider it a style it isn’t a pistache they dislike.

They still DNWed it though.