Songfic: Ur Doing It Wrong

[redbrunja]

Dear Fanficcer,

I love the song "At Last." It's a great song. I have two separate versions on my iPod.

However, I have lost track of the times I have come across this exact scene for various pairings:

Some dance somewhere. One half of an OTP will be like, 'may I have this dance?'

Other half: *has feelings about this*

Annoying interspliced text: "At last, my love has come along...."

Other half of OTP: Yes, you may.

Annoying interspliced text: "My lonely days are over...."

This is the fanfic equivalent to getting hit in the face with a baseball bat.

Please knock if off.

If you want to have them dancing together, please pick a different song, and describe it more creatively than just shoving the lyrics in there.

Ask yourself 'is what is playing the MOST IMPORTANT thing about this scene?'

And if the answer is yes, don't fucking post it.

Bruised,
me

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

See, the thing is, as headers or enders, lyrics work fantastic. Splicing them in however, is what happens when you try to get the same effect as a song in a movie, and I feel writers pain, because I'm tried and failed to do it as well, but there is just no way to it in the way that tv or film can.

So, please STOP TRYING.

[Edited because I answered the wrong questions. Oops.]

And I feel your pain. Writers need to focus on the really important things, and minutiae, unless it's used as a metaphor, usually isn't that important.

[tobu-ishi.livejournal.com]

Incontinuity? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incontinence) O_o