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Snowflake Challenge: Day 11
Jan. 24th, 2025 09:59 amIn your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.
Non traditional story structure and a true love. This is less a fanfiction trope and more a function of my other reading life. Don't get me wrong there are a number of fanfic authors that play in this field, it's simply that if there was a base "genre conventions" one could point to as the norm in English language fanfiction playing with form wouldn't rank high on that list.
Character driven, third person, romance adjacent works are by far the expected style. Pulling inspiration from romance and YA. Which both tend towards more linearity and straightfoward language to make the books easier and quicker to read. They draw you deep into the narrative and spit you back on the shores of real life some hours later.
While there is nothing wrong with this method of story creation, for challenged readers like me. Who has a mix of visual processing disorder and moderate dyslexia plunging into a story so deeply isn't always possible.
I grew up fairly heavily on 'reluctant reader' books. What they now tend to call 'high Interest, low level'. Episiltory, Novels in verse. Books told in alternating timelines. Where the interplay didn't rely on the readers memory to make connections. Any of dozens of narrative tricks one might use, particularly in children's books, to work with readers who have limited attention and poor skills. But rarely make the jump into adult fiction.
I have a collection of writers who carry these methods into more grown-up content and am regularly up for trying new writes when I hear of someone doing something interesting with narrative in verse or timelines. Failing that I have a variety of short story anthologies by editors I trust to pick interesting takes, while still keeping a strict style guide on the reading level things are expected to fall into.
If you have a favored author, fic, or book that plays with more unusual forms I'd love recs. And if leave a genre or theme in the comics I'll see if I know any that fit the bill!
Non traditional story structure and a true love. This is less a fanfiction trope and more a function of my other reading life. Don't get me wrong there are a number of fanfic authors that play in this field, it's simply that if there was a base "genre conventions" one could point to as the norm in English language fanfiction playing with form wouldn't rank high on that list.
Character driven, third person, romance adjacent works are by far the expected style. Pulling inspiration from romance and YA. Which both tend towards more linearity and straightfoward language to make the books easier and quicker to read. They draw you deep into the narrative and spit you back on the shores of real life some hours later.
While there is nothing wrong with this method of story creation, for challenged readers like me. Who has a mix of visual processing disorder and moderate dyslexia plunging into a story so deeply isn't always possible.
I grew up fairly heavily on 'reluctant reader' books. What they now tend to call 'high Interest, low level'. Episiltory, Novels in verse. Books told in alternating timelines. Where the interplay didn't rely on the readers memory to make connections. Any of dozens of narrative tricks one might use, particularly in children's books, to work with readers who have limited attention and poor skills. But rarely make the jump into adult fiction.
I have a collection of writers who carry these methods into more grown-up content and am regularly up for trying new writes when I hear of someone doing something interesting with narrative in verse or timelines. Failing that I have a variety of short story anthologies by editors I trust to pick interesting takes, while still keeping a strict style guide on the reading level things are expected to fall into.
If you have a favored author, fic, or book that plays with more unusual forms I'd love recs. And if leave a genre or theme in the comics I'll see if I know any that fit the bill!