I think the problem with me is that as much as I might hate canon (the actual original piece itself), I believe the fanfiction can actually be redeeming. I'll literally read anything. Literally (which is actually quasi pun-ny? :D) Don't ask me why when there's so much crap fanfiction out there. And dude... there is. I thought my eyes were going to start bleeding from the atrocities I was reading, which is way overdramatic, but I just couldn't believe it and let's just say that the (many) reviews were not concrits, they were 'omg, awesome chapter' kinds. I decided to not review in general.
Let's start at the beginnging I was reading Twilight fanfiction - yeah, I know. I freaking hate Twilight. The movie - man the movie was killer, I was laughing which is mean because I don't laugh quietly. I can't even voice the problems I have with the story itself... but (and it's a huge but) I like vampires and werewolves (though they're technically not lycanthropes though, right? More like shapeshifters?) and all that jazz (blame LJ Smith for that) so the fanfiction is do-able. Except that I forgot that when you have so many people in a fandom (so many young young people), the fanfiction kind of sucks until you find (like really search desperately for) good fic. It's like I know given time these writers will look back on what they wrote and go 'wth was wrong with me?'. I'm certain they'll improve, but right now, it's like they don't care about characterization (/I/ still have problems with characterization at the best of times, but I try to at least build something up. /something/.)
Stories where the characters move about with the heavy hand of the author are not fun reads. If you know what I mean, where you don't get the feeling that a character is so much making choices in a story so much as the author decides 'hey, he should go here' or 'he should suddenly feel this.' That is the biggest problem I've seen in the several fics I've tried to muscle through. I could get pretty far in reading some because like I said I have lower standards (and that's kind of mean isn't it?) and I was itching for a good fic, but I couldn't even finish more than half the stories I read in that fandom. I didn't realize that was a big problem in writing. But I guess it makes sense because that's all about build-up right? When you're young, instant gratification is everything, isn't it? So I guess it makes sense.
Conclusion: I'm going to Livejournal for my fics if I do still read more, which is a high probability.
ps
reviewing other pieces of work like that actually is iffy on my part because I know I still need a lot of improvement in my own writing, but still.
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