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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2021-06-22 05:16 pm

[ SECRET POST #5282 ]


⌈ Secret Post #5282 ⌋

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Re: Inspired by 5: What does "reads like fanfiction" mean to you?

(Anonymous) 2021-06-22 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm going to have to agree with this. Lemme give an example.

Read a book where the author had a pretty heavy plot going. At the same time, there was supposed to be a friendship forming (the two female leads spent half the book fighting like teenagers) and a romance which consisted of getting fast food and the female character spilling her guts about her bad past to the man. The end of the book, well, both the friendship (now they were supposed to be bffs or something) and romance were well on their way. And it was like the author forgot we hadn't read her 100s of pages of previously written stories where she'd inserted them as OCs into fanfic (Yes, she mentioned this somewhere) to love the characters as much as she did. She didn't give them the pages/time to show their relationships. (And as an indie she had the pages.)

The idea/world itself was good for the most part. Worldbuilding needed a bit more fleshing out. The abrupt plot turn that wasn't foreshadowed, and the forced relationships... were not. I um, didn't read the sequel.