[ SECRET POST #4435 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #4435 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Umbrella Academy, Cha-Cha and Hazel]


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[Death Mark]


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[Casey Affleck]












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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I rarely use "reads like fanfic" in my reviews, but when I do, I almost never use it in a positive context. For me "reads like fanfic" means that the author basically didn't bother to flesh the characters and world out before they threw lots of tropes at them. Kind of how fanfic authors don't need to do that because they (usually correctly) assume that everyone who reads their fic is familiar with canon.
Not sure if I'm describing this right, but sometimes books just read like the author's fanfic of their own canon. To them it's all deep and meaningful cause THEY know their characters/the world but have sort of forgotten, that readers don't.

[(Anonymous)]

And sometimes it 'reads like fanfic' because it actually is.

I one actually felt motivated to review somebody's book on Amazon just because it had annoyed me so much that it felt like somebody had taken fanfic and filed the serial numbers off. Like...if you'd done a find/replace on the the characters' names, you would've just accepted it as fanfic without any other changes, pretty much.

If I'd found it on AO3? Okay fine that's where it belongs. But paying money to read it because it was supposed to be a new setting written by an author I liked? Annoying. At least it was Kindle so I didn't pay much.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with all of this.

[dinogrrl]

Yeah, this. I've come across one book where I knew almost instantly that the authors were fanficcers. The story became frustrating to slog through, because I kept feeling like I was reading stuff from a fandom I was not familiar with, but I COULDN'T get familiar with it because it didn't exist. Hence why I said the story 'read like a fanfic' and I did not mean it as a compliment. A lot of other reviewers noticed the same things that I did, even though they weren't fanficcers themselves. (So OP, don't worry--your critique group will pick up on things being 'not right' even if they don't recognize the origin of the habits.)

It's like if someone who writes hardcore psychological horror were to decide to write a period slice-of-life story. Can they? Absolutely. But it's going to come across strangely to the period drama crowd if they write it like a horror story.