A thought inspired by the Feedback Exchange

[unfeathered]

Something that dynapink said in her feedback on Lessons Learned for the Feedback Exchange got me thinking. She said ’ I was somewhat less convinced by some of Nine's characterisation [ ] I have a hard time buying Nine gruffly ordering Jack into his bedroom (in front of Rose, especially) to "punish" him for irresponsible behaviour. The first half of the story almost seems more kink than characterisation, although oddly enough the second half, where most of the actual sex is, seems much closer to the actual characters.’

This made me realise that, because I move in a fairly limited circle on LJ, I actually write for a fairly specific audience. I expected most people who read Lessons Learned to be familiar with the work of other people who write kinky, D/s Jack/Nine. (Especially as most of my friends are also friends of a certain becky_writing who somewhat specialises in that genre! *g*)

And yet, I’d like my stories to be accessible to readers coming to the idea for the first time. So now I’m wondering if I need to put a bit more setting-up stuff into stories like that.

Any thoughts?

Comments

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Hm. Well. I can't say that I am (or was, 'cause by now I think I've read at least some fics) familiar with kinky D/s Jack/Nine and Lesson Learnt worked for me anyway.

That's all I can say to that *nods*

[unfeathered]

Thank you :-)

I just found it interesting. I do tend to assume everyone's familiar with the same things I am, and of course not everyone is. :-)

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Of course not, but that's part of the fun, isn't it? If we'd all just do the same things over and over again and only talk to people who do the exact same things we do and like the exact same things we do, wouldn't that be terribly boring after some time? It'd just mean repeating the same idea over and over again.

*is very philosophical today*

[unfeathered]

Oh, definitely. I love variety. I just don't really have time to explore the other types of fic out there, which is a shame. Being forced to read some Doctor/Rose was really, really intetesting. :-)