funny how reading really good fanfiction makes you really depressed

[ltgmars]

I write really long sentences. Amazingly long. Loooooong. <- Like that. They're cumbersome, and all three of my high school English teachers have commented on it. I can't help it, though. It makes sense in my head. It feels wrong to chop it all up into bits and pieces.

I'm incapable of writing anything other than fluff and humor. I've tried, trust me. Even in formal writing assignments, there's always some element of my personality that comes through, and since I'm not angsty or dramatic or sequential or methodical or logical or rational or in any way serious, anything I ever write comes out as spotty, rambling bunches of fluff. Or humor. Or sarcasm or irony or cynicism.

Or puns.

I pay no attention to character attributes aside from how they might speak, and I think I get that from fansubbing anyway. I otherwise don't give a damn how a person stands, whether he'd move to one side or another, why he feels the need to do such-and-such a thing, what makes him tick, and all those fun things that differentiate one person from another. They're all posable dolls to me, and they just do what I tell them to do.

I think on the surface. I don't -- can't -- analyze characters or people the way they deserve to be analyzed. I don't consider things. I take everything at face value as long as it makes a minimal amount of sense to me.

And I love how all of this extends beyond fanfiction.

P.S. Not fishing for compliments... just thinking out loud.

Comments

[fiore777.livejournal.com]

My teachers always bugged me about my rather long sentences. Although they usually aren't exactly run-on sentences since they have proper punctuation or whatnot. And I'm the opposite when it comes to writing, I can't write fluff/humor at all, all my creative writing assignements and non-assignments are dramatic/angsty although not particularly logical XD

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

Oh, my sentences are always properly punctuationized and whatnot. They're just... really long. And kind of hard to understand if you take breaks to breathe like most normal people do. I apparently read/speak quickly enough to get through the sentence without breaking the flow, but then again, I am unique... >_>;;

There was one student teacher person who took points off and wrote in the margins, "Pack your sentences." And I almost yelled, "It's not my fault that you're too much of an idiot not to be able to read long sentences!" :/

Dramatic/angsty is fun. I quite enjoy that type of writing style. XD

[moonrainty.livejournal.com]

I have the same problem too, and that has a lot to do with the fact that my native language is Chinese and I read a lot of Japanese text. With language like Chinese, you can express so much in one short sentence (because chinese doesn't have any obvious tense) but if you want to do the same in English, it'll result in one loooong sentence. Like when you translate Japanese into English, if you really want to capture the true meaning of the sentence, the sentence will become really really really long!

hmm...hope you get what I mean....T^T

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

Haha, I definitely understand what you mean. They always seem to have that problem in translating shounen manga... Kenshin's special attacks that are three or four characters end up translating to "flying dragon of imploding doom huzzah". :D

Ahh, we all suffer, ne? Everything just sounds so awkward in English. But unluckily for me, it's my only major language. ><

[datenshi-blue.livejournal.com]

Same problem here. It also comes from my first language being Spanish. In Spanish long sentences are good, they flow nicely and ya know, the longer the better. Short sentences make up for crappy literature. Unless they're well used. But generally the flow is shaky and horrible.

I've been told so many times that I should cut the length of my sentences... But it's really hard to do. I try, but it's not use T_T So, my fanfics get all wordy and horrible and I even get reviews from people saying that I should write shorter chapters because I should have some respect for their eyes. I mean, if you don't like long chapters, go read drabbles.

Ah, well :(

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

Spanish is such a pretty language (long and flowy, yes!). I envy you and your fluentness. :D

And long chapters are fun, so I don't know what those losers are talking about. -_-;; Which reminds me, I still haven't started reading Spiral yet becauseIsuckAUGH. I'll put it on my to-do list, because I've totally been meaning to read it for months now. ><;;