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Date Posted: Fri, Nov 14 2003, 14:12:35
Author: JAL
Subject: Thoughts on reading fanfic
In reply to: Jane T 's message, "Have I told you lately that I love you?" on Fri, Nov 14 2003, 1:14:39

>What do you all think? Does excessive reading of the
>Gaff board make you too picky or just picky enough?
>Does it diminish your enjoyment of 'competent' fics?

Hmmm . . . I found GAFF long after I'd concluded that 99% of fanfic was utter crap. So GAFF didn't disillusion me.

I think that there's this beginners period for the fan fiction reader, in which they're so blinded by the concept that they manage to enjoy even the most horribly written cliched stories. I know that I've gone back to stories I enjoyed when I first started reading, and wondered how in the hell I'd even gotten past the first paragraph. They aren't what I remember them to be.

Then there comes a period when quality begins to matter. When you've read the same story so many times, that you start looking for originality. When you don't want characters that are nothing more than cliched incarnations of the "author," or characters that are so perfect that they're basically deus ex machina on their own.

Then, when you realize that the above is about all you're ever going to find in fan fiction, you come here. ;)

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