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[pottersues]

I skipped a story that had a Sue paired with Semus in it because while it had over nine thousand words, it also lacked substance of any kind. And it is a one-shot. That reminds me, don't forget about the contest. :D

Comments

[anonymous]

You've got a lot of nerve! Do you people have nothing else to do but talk bad about other people's stories?? I bet neither one of you can actually write a decent story! There is a reason why it's called a fanfiction! It's not supposed to be how the real author wrote the story! There's plenty of Ron/OC fanfictions out there that are terrible. This story actually happens to have good writing and a plot line that the author tried to do. Stop being such jealous jerks and look in the mirror before bashing other people. No lives!

[yemi_hikari]

Sorry, but fanfiction doesn't mean "fiction written by fans", it means "derivative work created by fans". For a work to be considered derivative it does need to actually resemble the original. For it to be considered good derivative work it needs to keep the characters in characters as well as work well with canon.

While it is true that there are worse Ron/OC stories out there there are also better ones too.

I'm also going to say the writing isn't good. The story character bashes Hermione just because she's in the way, not to mention it makes her OoC. Relationships don't work the way they do in the story either. There are also quite a few punctuation errors as well as poorly constructed sentences. Some of the wording is strange and the writer replaced "said" with other words way to many times.

Also... nobody bashed the writer. It's all about the writing and the problems the writing has. Bashing the actual writer actually isn't allowed here.

[anonymous]

Really? Fanfiction doesn't mean fiction written by fans? Wow, that's a fail. XD I feel sorry for you! The writing was well-constructed. The plot may have been out of it, but it was good writing. Though, like I said before, you all don't have any lives that you have to make fun of other stories. Like you can make any better.

[yemi_hikari]

I meant to say, "derivative work created by people other then the original writer". I stand my point that the definition "fiction written by fans" is incorrect. Not all fanfiction is written by fans of a series and not all fiction written by fans is fanfiction, thus the definition can't be correct. Even if it was correct, being a fan of a series doesn't mean a writer can't be called out for bad writing, character bashing, making the characters OoC or not bothering to pay attention to canon. Being a fan doesn't entitle us to anything actually, as a writer very well can ban their fans from writing and posting stories to the net for their particular series. Why do you think there is a list of writers whose work is banned on the site? Hands down saying it being FANfiction is an overly entitled, self-centered point of view to take

[yemi_hikari]

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[anonymous]

All of you are really arrogant and self-centered. You all complain about bashing characters, yet you all back amateur writers. You all are just contradicting each other's words. There's a reason why it's called fanfiction. It should be constructive criticism, not bashing and mean criticism. That's all you all are doing. Hurting writers who have potential to be good. If you Want to help, then, be nice and suggest to be a beta reader to them or suggest new ways to construct their writing. Don't say the writing was "toxic" or "bad". They could be trying their first story or trying the best they can. All of you are just bringing down the writing, and they could easily loose motivation in writing. Is that what you all want?

[yemi_hikari]

I'm hoping that you weren't trying to imply that all fanfic writers are amateur writers, because such a statement is not true. However, I think you had a typo there and you're trying to say that pulling someones writing apart is equivalent to bashing said writer when it is not. I'll repeat the fact bashing the actual writer isn't allowed here

[anonymous]

No, I wasn't implying that all fanfiction writers were amateur writers. I'm not that stupid, thank you very much. There are writers out there who have been writing for more than 5 years who are still writing terribly and still get reviews and praises. What I was trying to say was that amateur writers should get constructive criticism right when they publish their first fanfiction, so they don't continue making the same mistakes. Instead of posting on a website that their writing is bad, you or the publisher of this trashy blog post, should help out the writer

[pottersues]

Apparently your comment went through a spam filter because you added a link and I just realized it was still under the filter, so I will let Yemi know about your comment. I don't appreciate the fact you're misquoting Wikipedia like that though. It should read...

"Fan fiction, or fanfiction (often abbreviated as fan fic, fanfic, or simply fic), is a broadly defined fan labor term for stories about characters or settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creator. Works of fan fiction are rarely commissioned or authorized by the original work's owner, creator, or publisher; also, they are almost never professionally published. Due to these works' not being published, stories often contain a disclaimer stating that the creator of the work owns none of the original characters. Fan fiction is defined by being both related to its subject's canonical fictional universe and simultaneously existing outside the canon of that universe.[1] Most fan fiction writers assume that their work is read primarily by other

[yemi_hikari]

Thank you for letting me know about this. I'll put my comment about the quote they used from Wikipedia here.

Their argument is based around their blatant misinterpretation of the quote from Lev Grossman. They took his quote to mean that fanfiction is simply the reinventing of the original work, when what he said was that what constituted literature would be reinvented because the only way fans could get the next part is to write it themselves.

[yemi_hikari]

Sorry, but arguments don't end because both parties are right. The point of debate is to try and prove ones case to the other, which you are not doing. Debate ends either when one person proves the other wrong or both parties agree to disagree. If you had actually bothered to read the wikipedia article in full you would have found this quote on the same page.

"However, the modern phenomenon of fan fiction as an expression of fandom and fan interaction was popularized and defined via Star Trek fandom and their fanzines published in the 1960s. The first Star Trek fanzine, Spockanalia (1967), contained some fan fiction; many others followed its example.[5]:1 These fanzines were produced via offset printing and mimeography, and mailed to other fans or sold at science fiction conventions for a small fee to help recoup costs. Unlike other aspects of fandom, women dominated fan fiction authoring; 83% of Star Trek fan fiction authors were female by 1970, and 90% by 1973.[6] One scholar states that fan fiction "fill[s] the need of a mostly

[yemi_hikari]

”If there are people out there saying really bad things about their writing, they'll lose their motivation because they didn't achieve their goal of impressing people with their work. That's why as I repeat how many freaking times that people should give constructive criticism. “Now your argument here is that it isn't constructive criticism if the “really bad things [said] about their writing” causes them to lose their motivation for writing, but I know from experience that for some writers any negative comment even if it is one spelling error amounts to a “really bad thing” about their writing, and for others like myself the only really bad thing is what we call flames, reviews that cross the line and tell the writer to die or never write again, not to be confused with rewrite the story or try again

[pottersues]

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No... fanfiction does't mean fiction written by fans.

[anonymous]

Yeah, only because you don't Want it to mean that.