Poll: FanFiction, your opinion
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Then I pity you, for there is some truly great fanfiction out there. Unfortunately, the one I'm thinking of was taken down because the person forgot to say that he didn't come up with the premise and some dipshit reported him for plagiarizing.GreatTeacherCAW said:
There's a shitload of awful fanfiction that gives the remaining 10-15% a bad name.
When I choose to watch a movie, read a book, or any other kind of non-fan-created media I can be pretty certain that it isn't going to be completely messed up without me knowing about it. This is simply because there are reviews, and word of mouth etc. that get spread around before viewing. Since anyone can create fan-fiction very easily and there is so much of it, you really never know what you are going to see before you view it.MelasZepheos said:
Of course I wouldn't usually mind that so much, were it not for the fact that 99% of everything I have heard about fan-fiction has not been positive. Why try reading something that is almost universally agreed to be bad, if I can try reading something people tend to like?
You could be proven wrong with either choice, but I'm pretty sure it's less likely if you go with something other people have said is good.
It all depends. 90% of it is crap, but the remaining is to die for. There are some REALLY good fics out there in all genres, romance, action, adventure, mystery, sci-fi etc. and quite a bit is written by adults as a hobby. Check tvtropes.org They catalog a lot of the good stuff for many shows and novels.
It often ends up being hit and miss but when you find something you like, you'll enjoy it.
It often ends up being hit and miss but when you find something you like, you'll enjoy it.
If you're gonna make a fanfiction, you should do it based on something very open for imagination. Bioshock for example, is perfect, because it's a full city with many citizen's all of them with their own perspectives. Then again, if you want a good fanfiction, you have to be a good writer. But yeah, fanfictions are ok.
There is exactly one good fanfic out there. It was about Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and put a pretty crazy spin on things by suggesting Alexander was actually with you during the entire story and was literally trying to help you not kill yourself. Any others I have seen are, yes, complete and utter swamp slime. The idea of a fanfic is actually quite intriguing, but nobody can ACTUALLY DO IT WELL, or at least very few can. I've tried to write two; the first one I decided was trash and scrapped it preserve the good name of what I was extrapolating on, and the second I lost to an exploding hard drive. No more tries since then, and don't think I will either.
They're hard to find, but good fanfics can go deeper into the personality of a certain character and make you see them in a different way (stop chuckling) and are genuinely well written. Shocking, I know but I've read a few of those. But again, they're hard to find. Also a lot depends on the fandom of the series, some of it has more crap than others.
Self-insertion fanfiction is of course the bottom of the barrel, Mary-Sues fall under the same category.
Self-insertion fanfiction is of course the bottom of the barrel, Mary-Sues fall under the same category.
Hate it with a fucking passion, even well written fanfic screws with my fantasy of whatever book/game/movie I have made in my head.
This, except replace hate, with something that best describes wanting to take any and every fan fiction writer and gas them...GreatTeacherCAW said:
Many people are done by people who haven't received many guidelines to writing, such as in a class. Those that have are more entertaining and I say go for it.