Snarky comment
Okay, right now I am trying to read a book that has me wondering how the hell some people get published. It's not a vanity press thing, either. It's written by someone who actually found an agent and sold his book to a publisher. Here is an example of how he writes:
"There was a cataclysm of light, so brilliant in its whiteness that it was as if the universe itself had been inverted, imparting upon the gossamer optic nerves of us mere mortals a curiously ironic darkness, for we were able to percieve it no more than a garden slug percieves the writings of Aristotle."
In other words "We were blinded by a flash of white light."
If this guy was a fan fic writer, we would be laughing at him.
"There was a cataclysm of light, so brilliant in its whiteness that it was as if the universe itself had been inverted, imparting upon the gossamer optic nerves of us mere mortals a curiously ironic darkness, for we were able to percieve it no more than a garden slug percieves the writings of Aristotle."
In other words "We were blinded by a flash of white light."
If this guy was a fan fic writer, we would be laughing at him.