Re: Fanfic Pet Peeves -- Better Buffy Fics

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Date Posted: 09:44:34 12/28/02 Sat
Author: ZachsMind
Subject: Re: Fanfic Pet Peeves
In reply to: urbanfaith 's message, "Re: Fanfic Pet Peeves" on 06:58:32 12/28/02 Sat

UrbanFaith: "I'm a big reader of fanfic and I was surfing through the Halo awards when I came apon this site and checked out the messageboard."

Good to see I'm not alone. I did the same thing. Happened across this message board from the Halo awards page.

"3. People who say they will update their fic and never do. They just leave it hanging. GRRR!! If you are going to start something, finish it!"

Sometimes there's a distinct reason why fanfiction doesn't get finished. Particularly episodic fan fiction. I wrote a series of transcript format fanfics that were supposed to be season seven episodes. I wrote them over the course of the past summer, and didn't finish them when I learned from spoilage that I was WAY off base. My approach to how Mutant Enemy would go from "Two To Go/Grave," while enjoyable from my perspective, was so non-canonical I couldn't bring myself to finish my efforts. I had enough material in mind for twenty-two episodes, and I knew basically where I was wanting to go, but when I learned Amber Benson probably wasn't going to return, my attempt to utilize the character of Tara the way I did was... well I just couldn't bring myself to keep writing my faux season seven. It started feeling like literary masturbation, and no one else would ever appreciate the work so why bother?

Oh. They're over here if anyone happens to be interested. I also have a couple stand alone works outside the faux season seven pieces I did. "House of Mirrors" is kinda Xander-centric, and "Christmas Gift" I wrote before I found out we were gonna get "Bring On the Night." It was an attempt to write a Christmas Episode that takes place immediately after "Never Leave Me."

With that in mind, here's a pet peeve I don't personally have but I think perhaps many fanfic readers do: writing in script/transcript format. I'm guilty of this. Personally for me writing fanfic as if it were a potential shooting script for the show allows the viewer to better imagine what the story would be like if actually produced. It makes it more Buffyish, but at the same time it seems many people just don't warm up to that approach for some reason.

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