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Dec. 28th, 2008 12:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easy"A writer, either professional or amateur, must realize that she... is not omnipotent. She cannot force her characters to do as she pleases... The writer must have respect for her characters or those created by others that she is using, and have a full working knowledge of each before committing her words to paper."
- Kendra Hunter, "Characterization Rape", 1977
Ha ha ahahahaha aha ha no.
What the lady meant - writing three years after the fanzine publication of the first K/S story - is that one oughtn't to write slash 'cos it's OOC. Fine, whatever, but whence the idea that the writer can't make their characters do whatever they like, and that they already have to have their character sheets rolled up before they start typing?! I tell you, when hopeful writers begin to realise the complete power they have over their stories - that they're not recounting, they're creating - they make a big leap towards their goal of publication.
- Kendra Hunter, "Characterization Rape", 1977
Ha ha ahahahaha aha ha no.
What the lady meant - writing three years after the fanzine publication of the first K/S story - is that one oughtn't to write slash 'cos it's OOC. Fine, whatever, but whence the idea that the writer can't make their characters do whatever they like, and that they already have to have their character sheets rolled up before they start typing?! I tell you, when hopeful writers begin to realise the complete power they have over their stories - that they're not recounting, they're creating - they make a big leap towards their goal of publication.
