Why do writers feel the need to create stories that are, by the standards of most fans, bad?
The thing is, I don't think those are the standards of "most" fans. Most fans who write essays and think about this stuff, maybe, but going by the majority of fic posted out there, most fans like that stuff. So yeah, they're writing for fun, but they're also writing for other fans like themselves who enjoy blatant Mary Sues and high school AUs and the cast of NCIS being turned into squirrels.
It only bothers me in the sense that the mainstream then decries all fanfiction as crap. There's less of an audience for original fiction online, so it rarely gets pointed out that most fiction is crap, and the internet's made it easy to share. But I'm all for fun, and I wrote my share of self-indulgent insanity in high school.
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Date: 2007-06-30 10:05 pm (UTC)The thing is, I don't think those are the standards of "most" fans. Most fans who write essays and think about this stuff, maybe, but going by the majority of fic posted out there, most fans like that stuff. So yeah, they're writing for fun, but they're also writing for other fans like themselves who enjoy blatant Mary Sues and high school AUs and the cast of NCIS being turned into squirrels.
It only bothers me in the sense that the mainstream then decries all fanfiction as crap. There's less of an audience for original fiction online, so it rarely gets pointed out that most fiction is crap, and the internet's made it easy to share. But I'm all for fun, and I wrote my share of self-indulgent insanity in high school.