[ SECRET POST #3228 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3228 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Arguments or criticisms you hate

[jaydestarlight]

Writing fanfiction is inherently less creative because you're writing in the world of someone else, and less fulfilling because you're not making any money off of it. Authors equating writing fanfction to an invasion of privacy.

Re: Arguments or criticisms you hate

[(Anonymous)]

Oh god, authors who bitch and moan about fanfiction are not only being crazy about it, they are being jerks. I'd think knowing that fans were so inspired by you're work that they want to play more in your world would be the ultimate praise. It just seems like such an irrational thing to freak out about.

Re: Arguments or criticisms you hate

[jaydestarlight]

I absolutely agree. It also makes the author seem narcissistic and controlling, not to mention selfish and irrational: once you publish something, the author has to accept that how people interpret it is out of their control.

Re: Arguments or criticisms you hate

[(Anonymous)]

To be honest I wouldn't mind if there was an author who was iffy on fanfiction of their work if they weren't a jerk about it and were aware it was a personal issue. Like I might see how someone might be "ehh" about the idea of something people could write about it.

But usually when a writer is anti-fanfiction they go whole hog crazy "fanfiction is EBIL and BAD and you're LITERALLY HURTING MY BABEHS". That makes me not only not want to write fic but to cross them off my list of "writers I plan on reading".

Especially when they try to make arguments for how it makes you a bad writer or worse writer.

Yes, writing regularly clearly will make you worse. That totally makes sense.

Re: Arguments or criticisms you hate

[jaydestarlight]

I agree with your first point, but I'm legitimately unaware of authors who were iffy about fanfiction but were mature about discussing why it made them iffy in a mature way. I've encountered too many authors who think fanfiction is evil, makes you a bad writer, weakening their work, akin to [insert painful analogy here] to be honest.

I don't understand why it's so wrong for a person who writes often to be considered "worse" because the words they're writing belong to a fanfiction.

Re: Arguments or criticisms you hate

[(Anonymous)]

oh, fuck, this one.

Re: Arguments or criticisms you hate

[jaydestarlight]

It makes the authors sound selfish, controlling, narcissistic, condescending, and judgmental, plus it's insulting and offensive to actual fanfic writers.

Re: Arguments or criticisms you hate

[(Anonymous)]

this exactly--and it's astonishing how the same people who call it uncreative and "not real writing" seem to think it somehow becomes creative Real Writing when it's for a work in the public domain or done with the permission of the original creator's estate.