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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) 2021-06-23 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
If "reads like fanfic" is meant as a compliment, I think of stories that get right to the meat of the story. They spend more time on characterization and plot than world-building, which either happens incidentally or the "world" is familiar enough that it doesn't need to be explained. There might be some deeper meaning, but it's not trying to be "The Great [Author's Nationality] Novel."

If it's not a compliment, then we're usually dealing with obvious self-inserts, cerulean orbs and Draco in Leather Pants. Also, "hecking."

If we're talking "serial numbers filed off" territory -- There was an author of an urban fantasy series where a main character is beat for beat how she used to write a main character from an 80s cartoon series in her ongoing series of 80s cartoon series fanfic. It is uncanny.