I think 80% of fans are looking for emotional intensity. Underwriting the story most of the way through leave more room to describe those 'peak moments', whatever they may be. (And part of the thing with Smarm was that the moments of emotional connection were supposed to be non-sexual. Cool, huh?) Most new writers? young writers? in-progress-writers? are still working on their craft and they don't know to leave themselves room for for describing those peak emotional moments, so to make a difference, to say "wow, this one is even better/more intense/more deeply felt than the last one I just wrote about" is kinda tough to do if you set the bar too high. That's where the seriously overblown language comes from. How do you designated a peak moment when you've set the bar too high?
Course, it works the other way around too. Some people don't build up the peak moment and just leave it at the same level as the rest of the text, and that's frustrating in it's own way.
But call it smarm, call it emoporn, call it a peak moment...it's still looking for the sweet spot.
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Date: 2008-10-07 04:02 am (UTC)Course, it works the other way around too. Some people don't build up the peak moment and just leave it at the same level as the rest of the text, and that's frustrating in it's own way.
But call it smarm, call it emoporn, call it a peak moment...it's still looking for the sweet spot.