How to write great Fan Fiction!
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Yeah, this cynical streak that runs through the Internet in general is really rather depressing. Someone wants to create something? What a weird, sad person. According to most people in this thread, someone who writes fanfiction is a terrible, terrible person, no matter what quality it is. Like claiming it would make them happy to see Fallout Equestria served with a C&D for daring to exist. Yay for childish vindictiveness, I guess.Legion said:
Also, if you wanna make a fanfiction, go for it! I would suggest looking around DeviantArt or somewhere similar for fans of the franchise you wanted to make a graphic novel about. I'm sure there would be artists around who would be happy to pair up. Collaborative efforts can be a great deal of fun!
Dan Abnett is the exception to the Norm. How many fucking BATTLES OF THE SPACE MARINES books are we going to get?deathbydeath said:Wait, so if you can't write with depth, write 40K shit?Soviet Heavy said:
While you do have a point, as 40k was designed to be fan fiction, your point is still negated in one word: Eisenhorn. Eisenhorn.
You have the entire Ciaphas Cain series if you want Blackadder in space, you have Eisenhorn if you want epic space opera. You also have all the Karren Travis esque bull that C.S Goto writes. Some goods, some bads, some fan fiction that just happened to get officially published.Binnsyboy said:
There's a fuckton of Space Marine chapters, and some are stories worthy of telling, but as far as I can tell, it's just "MAIM BURN KILL!!" except for the Emprah.Soviet Heavy said:
They really need to make a damn Astral Knights book.
Well I personally dislike fanfiction because it's either:Melon Hunter said:
1) Hilariously awful
Or
2) A waste of talent that could've been better spent on an original story.
On the first point, definitely. I think everyone's heard of the woeful attempts some people have made. But the second point? Not so much. An actually well-written fanfiction can set up stories with characters the readers are already emotionally attached to. Also, talent isn't a finite resource, it's something that can be built up over time. Let's face it, what's gonna get more attention and feedback, a well-written fanfic released to a large audience already aware of the characters, or a well-written, entirely new world released to an audience that knows next to nothing about it? Fanfiction is a way for budding authors to hone their talents and learn how to create worlds of their own, in an environment that can readily give feedback. That, I can appreciate. It's also why it annoys me when those people who want to improve themselves as a writer are lumped in with the self-indulgent timewasters who fall into the first category. They're not the same thing at all, and they're certainly not 'a waste of talent'. A cynical Internet, indeed.Genocidicles said:
I really don't like fan-fiction, because... well, it is fan fiction, why would I want to read someone else's view?
But I always think of your first rule when I think about FFic. Why are they so obsessed to tell how the toilet looks? Sure, it is to fill their text and hide the fact the have nothing of meaning to write, but still... They also use the weirdest words for which normal people use logical words. Especially with colors.
And then you have to people who take theirs (or someone else's) fic an itsy-beets to serious.
But I always think of your first rule when I think about FFic. Why are they so obsessed to tell how the toilet looks? Sure, it is to fill their text and hide the fact the have nothing of meaning to write, but still... They also use the weirdest words for which normal people use logical words. Especially with colors.
And then you have to people who take theirs (or someone else's) fic an itsy-beets to serious.
I actually find it easier to write a story from scratch rather than work as fanfiction with an established franchise. Why? Because it's far easier to fall into the trap of having the characters act out-of-character, or to break an established rule of the setting, if it's not something you made yourself.
Yes, there are some talented fanfiction writers out there, but they're just about 1 in 1,000,000,000. Probably due to the reasons I've cited, most talented writers tend to make original stories (though that's not to say that every original story is good--far from it).
Yes, there are some talented fanfiction writers out there, but they're just about 1 in 1,000,000,000. Probably due to the reasons I've cited, most talented writers tend to make original stories (though that's not to say that every original story is good--far from it).
