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Comments

man the fanfic writing community is such a strange place

[(Anonymous)]

Write about characters you like? Cool. Write them in all sorts of situations AUs or crossovers. Sure why not?

But heaven help you if you dare include a character made by you because creating a character yourself is horrible terrible writing and should just not be written. Cause like seriously Ew who does that?

...Like geez...I get that some people are young and create bad characters...but why should that be a reason that NO ONE can do it or it's bad? Let's just not let anyone create anything new because it might be bad. Why should it be discouraged all together because of some bad examples.

Here's a thought why don't we teach people to create characters WELL rather than saying they should just avoid it.

You like what you like....but don't be an asshole about it for crying out loud.

Re: man the fanfic writing community is such a strange place

[(Anonymous)]

it's weird how fandom is so eager to point to things and say they're bad writing
when to most people "fanfiction" means bad writing

Re: man the fanfic writing community is such a strange place

[(Anonymous)]

omfg you said it so well. It's like some people think you can only express your interest in something within a restricted set of ways.

And I find it weird that some see a handful of bad examples and decide to think it's all like that, when there's a metric fuckton of bad fanfiction that even though it's all canon characters, they are characterized so terribly as to be unrecognizable.

I maintain that a good writer can pull off a good OC fic, while a bad writer wouldn't be able to do neither that nor canon character fic correctly.

Re: man the fanfic writing community is such a strange place

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you

I have said before "There is as much OOC Canon fic as bad OC fic. But with the canon fic people simply realize that the author must not be skilled. with fanfiction, they blame the foreign element the OC. There are many stories where the OC is bad so people seeem to decide it's always bad. "

On one hand they may have a point. Many fanfics are written by young teenagers so they have a poor grasp on characterization and character creation.

There are plenty of Possession Sues, canon characters turned into a Mary Sue by the author.

OC's shouldn't be considered bad writing or should be avoided because of this. Really people need to accept that there's going to be a lot of poor quality fanfiction because many fanfic writers are young. They don't have to read it and they don't have to like it, but just realize that it's going to happen.

A more constructive way to handle this is to try and educate people on how to write well.

"I maintain that a good writer can pull off a good OC fic, while a bad writer wouldn't be able to do neither that nor canon character fic correctly."

That's true. That's why many Mary Sue / bad OC fics have OOC canons. the existence of the OC didn't make them that way. They would have been that way no matter what because the writer is unskilled.