Stovohobo's Ficlets Best Practices: No More Nonsense

by Stovohobo

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All right, it seems Robotech_Master has basically covered every single one of the things I would’ve said, but I have one more little peeve of mine.

In the past, there have been certain users who use ficlets for the wrong reasons. Basically, they were just using ficlets as an outlet for her random, no-storyline ramblings that didn’t make any sense and almost never received a rating above one or two stars.

I haven’t heard from many of them in a while, but there seem to be a few other people doing it now too. I just want to say that ficlets is a place to write, not to post one-sentence nonsensical…may I use the word garbage?

Something like: “once there was a pickle named Larry and hesdfbaifjroigjbsff. aaha a chicken!” Or they’d sequel someone’s ficlet with “and everyone died. the end.”

Then they’d never comment anything besides their own stories, praising it and saying how hilarious it is. Please, just don’t do that.

Prequels

Write a prequel

Sequels

Write a sequel

Comments

Average Reader Rating: 5.0 stars out of 5

  1. Stovohobo's Ficlets Best Practices: No More Nonsense

    wytherwings' Buddy Icon wytherwings

    Posted 6 months ago

    hm. i think i kind of agree. but it doesnt really bother me, i just ignore it and move on.

  2. Stovohobo's Ficlets Best Practices: No More Nonsense

    Lone Writer's Buddy Icon Lone Writer

    Posted 6 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    I remember her! She wasn’t so bad, some of her stuff was pretty good. But I still agree with you.

  3. Stovohobo's Ficlets Best Practices: No More Nonsense

    SKermitgorf's Buddy Icon SKermitgorf

    Posted 6 months ago

    I agree about the nonsense,.. I try to sequel stuff like that and make a coherent story out of them as a way to combat the garbage. That’s the way the Fruit escping stories with MBTM and others started.

  4. Stovohobo's Ficlets Best Practices: No More Nonsense

    Robotech_Master's Buddy Icon Robotech_Master

    Posted 6 months ago

    I do think you’re right. But on the other hand, I don’t think it’s really kosher to “call out” a person by name in one of these ficlets. You could get the point across without referencing the specific person by name.

  5. Stovohobo's Ficlets Best Practices: No More Nonsense

    Stovohobo's Buddy Icon Stovohobo

    Posted 6 months ago

    I know, and I do agree, R_M. I just thought that for an example, however…well, you are still right. Just because she’s not here anymore probably doesn’t give me a reason to put up the name.

  6. Stovohobo's Ficlets Best Practices: No More Nonsense

    Robotech_Master's Buddy Icon Robotech_Master

    Posted 6 months ago

    So edit the ficlet and remove it, why don’t you?

  7. Stovohobo's Ficlets Best Practices: No More Nonsense

    BARomero's Buddy Icon BARomero

    Posted 6 months ago

    Nonsense Ficlets don’t really bother me, so long as they aren’t abusive, not tagged properly, or attack anybody. Lewis Carroll was a master of nonsense, as was Douglas Adams.

  8. Stovohobo's Ficlets Best Practices: No More Nonsense

    Crown Me Tarzan, King of Mars' Buddy Icon Crown Me Tarzan, King of Mars

    Posted 6 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    I agree with BARomero *. Nonsense has it’s place, and is sometimes entertaining. But *Stovohobo is right to call out this particular brand of nonsense, which isn’t meant to entertain or do much of anything other than annoy.

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    THX 0477's Buddy Icon THX 0477

    Posted 6 months ago

    Whew, I just thought it was some sort of generational humor I wasn’t getting. And there is a certain amount of let-down after you get all excited that someone did a sequel, and then…pffffft. It’s one line of gibberish. Nonsense is fine and all, but to some extent I think it comes across as rude or flippant when you do that kind of sequel to a serious ficlet.

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    You Know You Love Mee!'s Buddy Icon You Know You Love Mee!

    Posted 6 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    I think I actually read that story. The one with the chicken. I thought it was very childish. And it aggervated me that someone would actually write that for no reason. So I agree with this.
    :]]

    You Know You Love Mee!

  11. Stovohobo's Ficlets Best Practices: No More Nonsense

    Alexa ♥'s Buddy Icon Alexa ♥

    Posted 6 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    A purely nonsensical Ficlet is wonderful (there was an early one about library elves that was just absurd to the extreme).
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    However, writing a one-sentence Ficlet or filling up half of the page with punctuation just to meet the character limit is rude to the original author, the readers, and Ficlets in general.
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    And THX did suffer the gravest of injustices in this line.

  12. Stovohobo's Ficlets Best Practices: No More Nonsense

    Music-Hearted's Buddy Icon Music-Hearted

    Posted 6 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    I agree with this in some sense- however, I think it is more about how the nonsensical is handled.

    Nonsense can be brilliant, when used in the right way- the problem is that typing meaningless letters and words to be “abstract” or “random” is not literature.
    LoA

  13. Stovohobo's Ficlets Best Practices: No More Nonsense

    Blusparrow's Buddy Icon Blusparrow

    Posted 6 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    I didn’t know about them commenting their own. That is just stupid. Recently there was a ficlet that said Once upon a time there was a bluberry that could talk then a bunch of jibberish then the end. ANd Kermitgrof sequeled it and made quiete a good series about talking fruits that I sequel twice too. One way to turn it around and make a stupid ficlet good. I don’t get why people write random stuff. I don’t think I will ever get it.
    LoA

  14. Stovohobo's Ficlets Best Practices: No More Nonsense

    Melia's Buddy Icon Melia

    Posted 6 months ago

    I’ve seen some “ficlets” that were pretty much just blog posts. That sorta bugs me, but then I just do then ‘move on’ thing and ignore them. Unless they’re spamming the Most Recent list with ‘em.

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