I can go you one better: I used to be a snob about fanfic period -- why bother writing something if it wasn't your own universe? I suppose it's alright if you're using it to practice REAL(tm) writing but as anything else? Please! *sneersneer*
Then I grew up and got over the need to be 'mature' -- and learned that fanfics could be well-written and that a lot of fanfic writers took the craft of writing just as seriously as original fic writers. Some of the better writing advice sites I've found have been written by fanfic writers trying to help other fanfic writers improve their skills. Hell, some of the fanfic grammar sites out there made concepts I'd never understood clear to me because hey, they were accessable!
This isn't to say that I don't still see fics that make me roll my eyes -- I could be quite happy if I never saw another fic where the minibots were treated as being weaker than the taller Autobots -- but at the end of the day I can walk away from those fics and do my best to write fics where things happen the way I want.
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Date: 2007-06-26 07:06 am (UTC)Then I grew up and got over the need to be 'mature' -- and learned that fanfics could be well-written and that a lot of fanfic writers took the craft of writing just as seriously as original fic writers. Some of the better writing advice sites I've found have been written by fanfic writers trying to help other fanfic writers improve their skills. Hell, some of the fanfic grammar sites out there made concepts I'd never understood clear to me because hey, they were accessable!
This isn't to say that I don't still see fics that make me roll my eyes -- I could be quite happy if I never saw another fic where the minibots were treated as being weaker than the taller Autobots -- but at the end of the day I can walk away from those fics and do my best to write fics where things happen the way I want.