Never Written

[ptahrrific]

I love a good fake-fic meme.

Give me the title of a story I’ve never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got submitted to magazines, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I’d been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

Comments

[pseudo_tsuga]

Oh my god, how are you so awesome? Yes, factiness, the idea that if you just explain clearly enough of course they would agree with you! After all, they only think that way because they're misinformed. In one way, at least you're not assuming they're evil, but you're also being arrogant enough to be so cocksure that your view is of course the right one. l!Stephen is like everyone I knew growing up so I love the way you point out his cognitive errors. (Plus it provides me with great quotes).

Hmm, I could actually see that as joyful but not as straightforwardly as r!Stephen which I suppose is what you said. I'm still re-discovering the joy in simply disagreeing and not having it be a huge deal or just saying "no" so I could see l!Stephen happy that he can do so now.

[ptahrrific]

Bahhhh. These are people I know - this is me plenty of the time - so it's not terribly challenging to satirize :3

The ironic thing is, there are a couple of different people I had in mind when typing all that up, and at least two of them would absolutely loathe each other. Same fact-oriented mindset, completely different political/social views. They would have a long detailed argument full of logic and citations, and eventually decide that the other one would just clearly Never Understand and they were wasting their time trying to explain things to someone so unwilling to see reason.

And if l!Stephen were talking to either of them, he would bend over backwards trying to agree. Until you put all three of them in the same room. At which point the ability to take a deep breath and quietly step back without trying to get everyone on the same page (that need is one of the Geek Social Fallacies, isn't it?) is pretty much a necessity.