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An Open Letter to Fanfic Writers. | |
Posted May 19, 2006 - 14:51:38
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- Traegorn
Hahahahaha!!!!!!
jess (the redhead)
Wow, y'all are just coming out of the woodwork lately.
Well, good timing. I just finally called time on fanfiction writing myself only earlier this week. Never really satisfied me as it did when I actually finished a story of my own creation. Plus, it was very rarely I could actually enjoy it. Now I'm focused on what I want to write with what I create.
There is a positive to writing fanfiction: practice.
Don't get me wrong--I stopped writing fanfiction for exactly the reasons you listed above, Trae. But the novel-length piece of fanfiction that I wrote from my freshman year of high school until my junior of high school is somethng I'm proud of because I finally had accomplished something with a cohesive plot and decent characters. Never mind that I was borrowing Rowling's HP world and my best friend's original characters (since I wrote the damn thing, it's my characterizations!) the point is that I finally grasped the concept of plot. Unlike the 300 original rambling soap-opera pages that I wrote in middle school. Or the original yet cliche-filled pages I wrote before that. Now I'm fairly confident about creating a cohesive original world with characters, setting and plot. But trying write an original piece in a fantasy-universe of my own design...it was like trying to drive stick-shift before getting used to the gas being on the right and the gas on the left in an automatic. Fanfiction helped that transition.
To be fair, trae, most fanfic writers should also stop writing because they suck. But the handful of good ones do need to hear that message. (Like Matt Finch; I'm glad he started writing his own stuff, finally.)
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