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Oct. 17th, 2004 12:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflyThis isn't something that any of the writers who read my list probably need to hear, but I'm venting a little.
Dude, is it so hard to write in culture? It's part of writing in character. And Jack O'Neill isn't going to say that he's 'bloody lucky', though he might say that he's 'damn lucky'.
There are a couple of less obvious British sentence constructions that bother me so much more now that I know why they're out of place (yay for Queer as Folk UK) -- the 'have done' construction being one that I've seen more than once in Stargate fic. Daniel Jackson isn't going to say, "Might have done". He'd leave off the 'done', or just go with another word or phrase.
A character comes with a gender, a culture, and pre-existing biases. Ignoring those does make me doubt how much of the source that the writer's seen and therefore how valid their fictional conclusions are.
Dude, is it so hard to write in culture? It's part of writing in character. And Jack O'Neill isn't going to say that he's 'bloody lucky', though he might say that he's 'damn lucky'.
There are a couple of less obvious British sentence constructions that bother me so much more now that I know why they're out of place (yay for Queer as Folk UK) -- the 'have done' construction being one that I've seen more than once in Stargate fic. Daniel Jackson isn't going to say, "Might have done". He'd leave off the 'done', or just go with another word or phrase.
A character comes with a gender, a culture, and pre-existing biases. Ignoring those does make me doubt how much of the source that the writer's seen and therefore how valid their fictional conclusions are.
