A place to discuss, complain, seek or recommend the slop that you read, light/webnovels, AO3/Wattpad slop, fanfics, etc.
>>25459894I'll start!. im trying to read this piece of shit my friend recommended to me, and ill grant that at times it is very entertaining, but the author has a way of holding your hand like you're a little kid and explain every reason and motivation behind a characters cringy behaviour, making dialogue scenes slow and well, cringe.7.5/10 slop so far, barely on volume 3.Does this specific complain get better?
>>25459894You're not a real writer if you've never made fanfiction.
The reason why people think fanfiction is low quality is because of pretension and that publishers and editors are gods gift to hacks that can polish any turd into being passible.
>>25459902>if you've never made fanfiction.I actually tried my hand at rewriting my fav webnovel to fix the shitty pacing that comes with the format, gave up like 1/4 of the way through, but the protagonist and world has so much potential, as is it is really, really good slop, if it wasnt burdened by the pains of translation and the needless filler it would be elevated to the ranks of popular fantasy works out there, like TEOTW.
>>25459906>The reason why people think fanfiction is low quality is because of pretensionNo, the reason fanfiction IS generally low quality is that 80% of the time it is:A) Just shipping charactersB) Shipping characters with the readerC) Power fantasyD)All of the above>editors are gods gift to hacksActually i wonder about that, it seems there is some editor propaganda going around, whenever i hear an author speaking about editors, they either sing their praises like they helped the author turn the book from Quibole con to Don Quijote, or i heard they modified and trashed it so much it went from the Illiad to Daughter of Troy.
>>25459902I actually got my start writing fanfiction.This was back in the day when the IGN Message Boards were in full swing. I think I was 13 at the time. I was a frequent poster on their Pokemon board, and it was very trendy back then to write Pokemon fanfics, based on either the anime or the games, and post them in threads on the board.So I got an idea in my head for a story, and started a thread for it, and began to write it, posting it in installments as I banged it out.I didn't go into it expecting any particular audience, but to my surprise, most of the board started to read the story, and I got dozens of comments from users saying how much they were enjoying it. That was the first time I realized that, not only did I really enjoy writing fiction, it seemed as though other people tended to like what I'd written.I've never looked back since. I maintained a Fanfiction.net profile for years. These days I've basically given fanfiction up, and moved on entirely to original fiction. But I'll never begrudge my time as a fanfic writer. It helped make me the artist I am today.
>>25460141Have you ever looked back on your work? How does it stack against what you produce now?
>>25460208Well, thanks to reading, practice, and effort, I think I'm constantly getting better. I consistently feel that my best work is still ahead of me. I think the stuff I put out is still pretty good, but I always feel like I can improve.So: when I look back on the older stuff, the old fanfics, I definitely see flaws that I wouldn't have made if I were writing such a story today. But I do still think a lot of it is readable, at the very least.In particular I seem to have always had a knack for enjoyable plotlines and character interactions, and these will still carry a lot of my fanfics that suffer from a lack of technical skill and higher levels of expertise. I've basically always been able to spin a good yarn and write a good character interaction.
>>25459906 Fanfiction often serves as a vehicle for authors to act out sexual fantasies or explore topics that interest them but would likely find little success if not tied to the original work in question. It is a valid way to practice and cut one's teeth, though one rarely finds a gem of high literature among them.
Masterful short story
>>25459894Does the ao3 logo remind anyone else of a certain merchant rubbing his hands?
>>25459902Someday everyone will read my elaborate globe-trotting wind in the willows fanfiction that I’m working on
theres this old pokemon fanfiction on ffnet called The Reaper. its clearly a product of autism and insecurity about being a young conservative on the internet around 2016, but it is some of the most captivating and consistently creative shit ive ever read in my life, although thats partially because i grew up playing the gen3/4 pokemon games on loop. its a combination of like furry harem romance, well-researched military thriller, scifi and pokemon adventure, and it sounds like a chaotic clusterfuck on paper but the reading experience is shockingly good. most published authors cannot get me to keep reading the way The Reaper does. the reaction i had to reading that story got me out of a depressive episode and compelled me to read everything from like Joyce to CS textbooks to obscure fanzines since it proved to me, in a real way, that if you look hard enough, there really are gems in the Indian Ocean full of trash and shit out there. ive been an eccentric independent art junkie ever since. highly recommend
>>25460860Sounds pretty kino, link?
>>25460825I ain’t seeing it. >>25459902I live in shame of my Sonic the Hedgehog fan fictions. I was pretentious about them, too. Often feuded with much more prominent Sonic fan writers because I didn’t consider their work “real” fan fiction since it relied so heavily on OCs. At that point it was just an original work pretending to be fanfic whereas I focused on Sonic and the core characters. My OCs were limited to disposable villains and side characters. Now that I think about it, I was right. It’s not fan fiction if it’s all OCs.
>>25460819Kek, did not get the title but laughed anyway.>>25460860Link?>>25461003>I was pretentious about them, too.If you weren't you didn't really put in your all into writing them.Anyways this is the latest slop I've been reading, the manwhas got me hooked immediately for some reason, I think the combination of the pacing and no nonsense writing, and so far I'm smoking the novel too.
Sometimes, I go way back to the beginning of my own story and I read it through for pleasure, as if I didn't know the next word or that I wrote it, and since I consider my writing subpar I suppose that is the only "lesser literature" I've been reading.
>>25459909I love how quite a few people had the same idea. Me too. I see internet comments about people trying it from time to time. The plotting of the 1st book is near perfect though, the worst part is when Tie Ruo Nan guessed Fang Yuan had an extreme physique. That part definitely needs to be rewritten.With the power of Virginia Tufte’s Artful Sentences, lnmtl, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Hanfeizi, I Ching, and Smiling Proud Wanderer, I will rewrite the 1st book of Reverend Insanity as the perfect novel.
>>25462261Goes to show just how near an dear to people's hearts the story is, the problem would be giving it a proper ending, I don't think I can emulate the way Gu Zhen Ren orchestrates climaxes, I think very few can.No western propaganda got me to hate China's government more than them banning RI.Gu Zhen Ren alluded to the legal battle being close to ending, a man can only hope.
>thread hasn't been deletedWell, shoot, maybe the mods have relented on the years-long ban on fanfiction discussion.In light of that, anybody want to see some stuff? I'm >>25460141 and my old FF.net profile is still up. I'd be happy to share a story or two if anybody's interested. Even now, all these years later, I'm always happy for new readers.
>>25462772Sure, link it
