I have been writing (fan fiction) for 7 years, these general rules have been passed down from writers who have been writing fan fiction since the 80's, back when you traded your fan fiction at cons, and on floppy disks!
Dude when I joined fandom, totally trufax here, I was in a local group of fen and we traded HARD COPY. LIKE, ON PAPER. I also vidded back in the day with two VCRS and a tape deck.
CAN I HAVE THE SUPER SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE AWARD NOW? FLOPPY DISKS DON'T GET YOU THE AWARD LADY. SRY. IT'S MINE.
Also, glancing at that page, n00b can't have been passed down. Sorry. No one used that word back then. Ditto anything regarding LJ. We did not have these rules on Usenet. If you're going to get into "rules" that were "passed down" back in the old days of fic writing, you're going to be talking about things like a chapter is 32kb of text because that was what fit in a post. Or how things were formatted with linebreaks at 60 characters so you didn't get long-short-long-short lines.
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Date: 2009-12-02 09:52 pm (UTC)Dude when I joined fandom, totally trufax here, I was in a local group of fen and we traded HARD COPY. LIKE, ON PAPER. I also vidded back in the day with two VCRS and a tape deck.
CAN I HAVE THE SUPER SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE AWARD NOW? FLOPPY DISKS DON'T GET YOU THE AWARD LADY. SRY. IT'S MINE.
Also, glancing at that page, n00b can't have been passed down. Sorry. No one used that word back then. Ditto anything regarding LJ. We did not have these rules on Usenet. If you're going to get into "rules" that were "passed down" back in the old days of fic writing, you're going to be talking about things like a chapter is 32kb of text because that was what fit in a post. Or how things were formatted with linebreaks at 60 characters so you didn't get long-short-long-short lines.