My talk at WriterCon UK - Things that make you go WTF?

[curiouswombat]

The Midi-meet was, as I have said before, really good.

There were new people, and people I had met before, to talk to; a quiz in which my team came last(!) - and a whole day, and a bit, of talks.

My session was intended at least as much to amuse as to educate - the subject was 'Things that make you go WTF?' In other words the things in a story that pull you up short and stops you mid-flow, so to speak!

I have posted the text of my talk at the WriterConUK community - Click here to read it and (hopefully) enjoy!

On the day I had a Powerpoint presentation with header slides and the quotes on the screen - but I think that you can get the gist!

Comments

[kortirion.livejournal.com]

*snorfle*

Yeah - that's pretty much the reason I gave up reading anything posted on fanfic.net... so long ago, I'm not even sure if that's the right name for the site.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Horrifyingly, only the Bad Summeries Sumirys Summaries came from The Pit of Voles (aka fanfic.net) - the rest came from Open Scrolls, Stories of Arda, Twisting the Hellmouth (A really major Cross-over archive), and a couple of others with a reputation for better quality stuff than The Pit as well!

[jerusha]

Yay! I'm glad you posted that. I can't wait to catch up on it.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

You are going to have an awful lot of catching up to do! I was only away at the Con for a weekend, not getting married and having a honeymoon, and I had to skim like mad!

Lovely to know that everything went well - well apart from the car breaking down today, that is!

[miso-no-tsuki.livejournal.com]

Read this and laughed again. Thank you for a very well illustrated collection of "howlers".

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It was my pleasure! Well, mostly...

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It was just... words fail me. Not a thing that happens often!

[ningloreth.livejournal.com]

That was such a fun talk (though it does make me antsy to see other people's mistakes :-)

[I didn't say at the time, but I've read 'Adventers', because it's next to my 'Winter Magic' at AFF but has far more hits and comments. It's less than 500 words long & features Elrond's daughter 'Luna' and Legolas' brother 'Zachary'. I'm almost certain that the author's trolling!]

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Ooh - sounds exciting, perhaps I should go and read... or perhaps not!

I just added my 'contributors' banner - I forgot it when I posted yesterday...

(self-pimp - I posted chapter nineteen of Brotherhood (http://curiouswombat.livejournal.com/200412.html#cutid1) when I got home as S2C beta'd it on the boat.)

[ningloreth.livejournal.com]

Well, reading it wouldn't take long!

self-pimp - I posted chapter nineteen of Brotherhood

Oooo! (The one where we see L/E, LOL!) I'll read it tonight!

[I've been ill, on and off, since I got back from Coventry -- I've seen other people mentioning they've had the same symptoms -- and I'm very behind with reading & commenting. And I've still got to post my talk :-( ]

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Oh - sorry you've been ill - we've been OK.

I think it is a good idea to have the talks posted at about one a day, to be honest.

[cbtreks.livejournal.com]

Let us all ignite for equanimity! All of fandom - ignite!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

That will be our new rallying cry! "Ignite! Ignite! For equanimity!"