![]() ![]() What exactly do you get out of discouraging that? I’ll tell you what you get, you get less stories, less people willing to give it a shot, people who won’t even try. People write fanfiction because they love the media they consume and want to put their own spin on it, to delve deeper into the characters, and appreciate it beyond the original text. If everyone followed the literary rules to a T then we would have uniformity instead of creativity. I can’t write it as someone else and I also don’t see the point in trying to. So no, I don’t always think about the grammar of the sentence, because it is 100% in my voice, I’m the one writing the story. When I write a sentence, I write it the way I would say it verbally. You don’t even need to be perfect on your 100th go around.Ī person’s writing can only improve. You don’t need to be perfect on your first go around. I just did revisions on a fic I wrote seven years ago, a fic that is my most celebrated piece of writing, a fic that people loved despite its imperfections. But if I had seen shitty videos like that ten years ago, I probably would have fucking quit. I’m terrible at writing prose, my main focus and strength has always been with dialogue, and I constantly have to work on it. There’s some stuff I’ve written that I’m scared to revisit, mostly because it’s for a fandom I’ve long departed from, but also because I know it’s not good. I posted my first fic to AO3 in April of 2012 and before that I used to post my stuff to. As someone that’s been writing fics for over a decade now, I can guarantee that I’ve written some awful shit. ![]() I generally just dislike people that discourage Fanfiction writers anyway. But these same people would jump to stealing a person’s story instead of offering to Beta read for an author. It’s so funny how people will consume free media and then bitch about how it isn’t up to their standards. I’m sorry, this is the most garbage take I’ve ever seen. I saw one comment say they sometimes want to plagiarize a story so that they can “write it correctly” or “do the idea justice.” I also saw a lot of “stay on Wattpad because you don’t belong on AO3.” Basically, the person in the video said they couldn’t stand when a fanfiction “seemed like it written by a 14 year old.” The comments were just a dumpster fire of assholes. I just saw the most vile TikTok about fanfiction that I’ve ever come across and felt the need to comment on it. ![]()
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