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MusicIsLife · 18th Feb 2009, 05:22 PM

What are your opinions on it?

I think its fun, i write it

If you dont know what it is, its basically stories fans write about things like...musicians, books, TV shows, actors, etc.

Anyone?

pirateninja · 18th Feb 2009, 05:30 PM

I love it too

I write some South Park ones at times. It's fun, but with fanfics you have to be prepared to wade through a lot of crap (in terms of plot, writing style and basic punctuation and spelling) to get to some really talented writers. I mean, anyone thinks that with some great characters, they can write a great story. But other than that, I'm a great fan of fanfics, and read far too much of them, I think.

MusicIsLife · 18th Feb 2009, 05:35 PM

xD as do I. I read harry potter and musician fanfics, but i write musician ones, i cant bring myself to write harry potter ones.

& you're very right, there is a TON of terrible ones out there.

**Maddy** · 18th Feb 2009, 05:39 PM

I wrote extremely bad Harry Potter fic when I was 11, and I write the occasional piece now (not Harry Potter, though), but I don't really read it much. Some of what I find just makes me want to stab my eyes out.

jazzrawr · 18th Feb 2009, 05:50 PM

I must admit, I love it. XD
I read far too much of it for my own good. I've written a few pieces too.
But I do agree, you do have to wade through some crap stories to get to the well written stuff. But I've read some amazing fanfictions.

18th Feb 2009, 05:51 PM

I wrote one once but that was almost a year and half ago. I will never write another one due to issues one author had. A fan had written a fanfic and threatened to sue the author for "stealing" her ideas...even though the property was hers. (They were both women) The publisher didnt want the lawsuit so the book got cancelled. The fanfic author wanted to be made co-author and the publisher/book author would not have that. And also, thanks to that, the entire quadrilogy of it had to be scrapped due to some obsessed fan.

Davey · 18th Feb 2009, 05:53 PM

I used to write fanficiton all the time and actually have an account on (FanFiction.net) with a few stories. I kind of died out of it when school started back up its kind of a summer thing. I write for ONE TREE HILL and I have one for TWILIGHT up as well. They are all homosexual themed lol.

Jeimuzu · 18th Feb 2009, 05:54 PM

I used to write ages ago. =/ Was a bit rubbish but I did have a 38000 word story kicking around somewhere. :P

Amy · 18th Feb 2009, 06:28 PM

My Immortal

That's all I'm gonna say...

Jeimuzu · 18th Feb 2009, 06:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amyleona

My Immortal

That's all I'm gonna say...

Argh did you have to?

Amy · 18th Feb 2009, 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeimuzu

Quote:

Originally Posted by amyleona

my Immortal

That's All I'm Gonna Say...

Argh Did You Have To?

Yes.

Emberstone · 18th Feb 2009, 07:35 PM

I started writing with fanfiction. Now I am working to find a agent for a original work, which is the first in a planned series *i have roughdrafts for the 2nd and 3rd book, and im a month or so away from a rough draft of the 4th.*

I just got tired of writing in another authors world.

I have had good responces from agents, who think the story is marketable. They just have recommended a few areas of edit. I have yet to find a agent who thinks it is marketable, and has the time to take on the first book, or is what they represent.

18th Feb 2009, 08:13 PM

I enjoy fanfic but I don't read much. I have dabbled in writing it, but never published any of it online.

Wander · 18th Feb 2009, 08:38 PM

Some of it deserves respect, most of it doesn't. For example, I have not read a single damn Sonic x Shadow x Harry Potter x Mega Man fanfic that has any literary value. But I'm sure there are some people with real talent who I'm just not picking up.

Bunny · 18th Feb 2009, 11:55 PM

I'm very very picky, so there are few fanfics that appeal to me (and a lot of garbage to go through to find them).

My standards are especially high after reading a masterpiece like Impaired, the bestest Silent Hill fanfic ever, and unfortunately one of the only ones worth reading at all. xD

lordjord96 · 19th Feb 2009, 01:33 AM

i do it sortof in my own time.......but its not something that i would do for a project at school (its ok).

HeronsStorm · 19th Feb 2009, 01:49 AM

Psh, I am so insanely guilty it's not even funny! I dabbled in it when I was, like, eleven. I wrote three of epic'ly horrid proportions, but now I'm not half bad a writer. I have about two good stories drifting in the 50,000's range, so, ya. Thing is I go through little spurts where once I find a fandom I like to find all the pictures and fanfiction. The trouble is with this new one... THERE PRACTICALLY IS NONE. I'm serious, There is TWO good authors with SIX stories together among ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN cruddy ones. Including mine. So if I ever want to read about my OTP I have to write it myself. Oh well.

It helps me with my grammar and spelling which is very good. Trouble is, now that I've started writing a lot (like, any free time. I once typed 12,000 words in one day when I was sick) my reading level has decreased, and now when I sort through to read anything, all I find is CRUD. Seriously, it's like trying to find a needle in a haystack. So I've almost completely given up reading for now, just writing.

That was probably longer than it needed to be.

Remington · 19th Feb 2009, 03:40 PM

Sweet, I write it too.

I don't have a lot of time to anymore but I try to keep my stories updated.

I use it to keep my writing skills in check. And because it's fun. C:

Right now I'm obsessed with the Life with Derek fandom. That'll probably change though.

**Lexington** · 19th Feb 2009, 05:08 PM

I've written some. It's on fanfiction.net if you're really interested. I enjoy the process. I compare it to putting chessmen on a chessboard, and then seeing how you can move the pieces around. It's a fun pasttime.

Three things I'm not crazy about in the world of fanfiction:

* People who are more interested in saying "I'm writing" than in writing, if that makes any sense. I've run into people who are "working on an eleven-part, one-hundred-twenty-eight chapter epic", but who can't maintain reader interest for a paragraph. You might say they're more quantity than quality. I'd rather read one killer two-page story than a full-fledged epic that isn't really done.

* People who take the characters too far from the original source material, especially without TAKING the reader there. If you have to explain at the start of your story that, in the Pokemon fanfic, Ash is training to be a wizard, and he's been turned into a female dinosaur by a competing wizard, and now he's stuck on a distant planet with a gorilla sidekick... It's not that a good fanfic could be written about that. But start with what we know - Ash - and take us there. Write about him deciding to become a wizard, and how he got into an argument with the other wizard, and how he met the gorilla.

I've never run into the Mary Sue thing, myself. But it's funny to think about.

Lex

xballetxbeautyx · 20th Feb 2009, 04:56 AM

Um, yeah. A lot.

Hmm... Outsiders, Harry Potter, Twilight, West Side Story, and--yes, I know-- Shakespeare.

(And I manage to make gay pairings in most of them...)

18th Feb 2009, 05:22 PM	#1
MusicIsLife EC Addict Full Member Gender: Not even sure anymore. Something in between. Orientation: I like girls :) Out Status: Everyone on orientation 7 people on trans issue. Location: Montréal, QC Age: 23 Posts: 1,595 Join Date: Dec 2007	Fanfiction What are your opinions on it? I think its fun, i write it If you dont know what it is, its basically stories fans write about things like...musicians, books, TV shows, actors, etc. Anyone?

18th Feb 2009, 05:30 PM	#2
pirateninja EC's Sailor Uranus Full Member Gender: Biologically Female Orientation: Heterosexually Challenged Out Status: Most people Location: Bath, England Age: 21 Posts: 5,853 Join Date: Sep 2007	Re: Fanfiction I love it too I write some South Park ones at times. It's fun, but with fanfics you have to be prepared to wade through a lot of crap (in terms of plot, writing style and basic punctuation and spelling) to get to some really talented writers. I mean, anyone thinks that with some great characters, they can write a great story. But other than that, I'm a great fan of fanfics, and read far too much of them, I think. __________________ Holly the Pirateninja Ars Longa, Vita Brevis.

18th Feb 2009, 05:35 PM	#3
MusicIsLife EC Addict Full Member Gender: Not even sure anymore. Something in between. Orientation: I like girls :) Out Status: Everyone on orientation 7 people on trans issue. Location: Montréal, QC Age: 23 Posts: 1,595 Join Date: Dec 2007	Re: Fanfiction xD as do I. I read harry potter and musician fanfics, but i write musician ones, i cant bring myself to write harry potter ones. & you're very right, there is a TON of terrible ones out there.

18th Feb 2009, 05:39 PM	#4
Maddy Free Hugs EC Admin Gender: - Orientation: Into girls Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 21 Posts: 7,703 Join Date: Mar 2008	Re: Fanfiction I wrote extremely bad Harry Potter fic when I was 11, and I write the occasional piece now (not Harry Potter, though), but I don't really read it much. Some of what I find just makes me want to stab my eyes out. __________________ how strange it is to be anything at all [Victor] 2:09 pm: and then halloween happened and I was outside in a skirt.

18th Feb 2009, 05:50 PM	#5
jazzrawr Lover of Loony Lovegood Full Member Gender: Female Orientation: Lesimbean Out Status: I scream it from rooftops Location: Ontario, Canada. Age: 19 Posts: 3,391 Join Date: Feb 2008	Re: Fanfiction I must admit, I love it. XD I read far too much of it for my own good. I've written a few pieces too. But I do agree, you do have to wade through some crap stories to get to the well written stuff. But I've read some amazing fanfictions. __________________ <3 You can love people so much... But you can never love someone as much as you can miss them. (...and the lesbians.)

18th Feb 2009, 05:51 PM	#6
The Enigma Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Fanfiction I wrote one once but that was almost a year and half ago. I will never write another one due to issues one author had. A fan had written a fanfic and threatened to sue the author for "stealing" her ideas...even though the property was hers. (They were both women) The publisher didnt want the lawsuit so the book got cancelled. The fanfic author wanted to be made co-author and the publisher/book author would not have that. And also, thanks to that, the entire quadrilogy of it had to be scrapped due to some obsessed fan.

18th Feb 2009, 05:53 PM	#7
Davey Here Then There! Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Upper Sandusky, Ohio Age: 21 Posts: 954 Join Date: Aug 2007	Re: Fanfiction I used to write fanficiton all the time and actually have an account on (FanFiction.net) with a few stories. I kind of died out of it when school started back up its kind of a summer thing. I write for ONE TREE HILL and I have one for TWILIGHT up as well. They are all homosexual themed lol. __________________ I've found true love. Davey+Bryan November 17, 2008

18th Feb 2009, 05:54 PM	#8
Jeimuzu Wreck Cognition Full Member Gender: Heterogametic Orientation: Rawr. Out Status: 99% out. Location: Middlesbrough Age: 23 Posts: 1,744 Join Date: Aug 2007	Re: Fanfiction I used to write ages ago. =/ Was a bit rubbish but I did have a 38000 word story kicking around somewhere. :P __________________

18th Feb 2009, 06:28 PM	#9
Amy DFTBA Full Member Gender: Somewhere between female and I don't know Out Status: Open, not out. Location: Northern California, United States Age: 18 Posts: 2,380 Join Date: Jul 2008	Re: Fanfiction My Immortal That's all I'm gonna say... __________________ "The opposite of love is not hate, but fear" Forrest Church

18th Feb 2009, 07:35 PM	#12
Emberstone Flappychap Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Oregon, USA Age: 28 Posts: 5,585 Join Date: May 2008	Re: Fanfiction I started writing with fanfiction. Now I am working to find a agent for a original work, which is the first in a planned series i have roughdrafts for the 2nd and 3rd book, and im a month or so away from a rough draft of the 4th. I just got tired of writing in another authors world. I have had good responces from agents, who think the story is marketable. They just have recommended a few areas of edit. I have yet to find a agent who thinks it is marketable, and has the time to take on the first book, or is what they represent.

18th Feb 2009, 08:13 PM	#13
Drizzt DoUrden Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Fanfiction I enjoy fanfic but I don't read much. I have dabbled in writing it, but never published any of it online.

18th Feb 2009, 08:38 PM	#14
Wander Banned Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Parents, aunts, grandma, counselor, online friends Location: Central Alabama Age: 18 Posts: 2,360 Join Date: Jan 2008	Re: Fanfiction Some of it deserves respect, most of it doesn't. For example, I have not read a single damn Sonic x Shadow x Harry Potter x Mega Man fanfic that has any literary value. But I'm sure there are some people with real talent who I'm just not picking up.

18th Feb 2009, 11:55 PM	#15
Bunny EC Addict Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Boys <3 Out Status: if they would only ask Location: Canada~ Age: 18 Posts: 430 Join Date: Oct 2008	Re: Fanfiction I'm very very picky, so there are few fanfics that appeal to me (and a lot of garbage to go through to find them). My standards are especially high after reading a masterpiece like Impaired, the bestest Silent Hill fanfic ever, and unfortunately one of the only ones worth reading at all. xD

19th Feb 2009, 01:33 AM	#16
lordjord96 -type text here- Full Member Gender: male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Friends and mum Location: milton keynes. Posts: 231 Join Date: Oct 2008	Re: Fanfiction i do it sortof in my own time.......but its not something that i would do for a project at school (its ok). __________________ 'closets are for clothes!'

19th Feb 2009, 01:49 AM	#17
HeronsStorm Well Known Regular Member Gender: FTM? Orientation: Not sure (still trying to figure it out) Out Status: Three people Location: Sunshine State Age: 18 Posts: 132 Join Date: Jan 2009	Re: Fanfiction Psh, I am so insanely guilty it's not even funny! I dabbled in it when I was, like, eleven. I wrote three of epic'ly horrid proportions, but now I'm not half bad a writer. I have about two good stories drifting in the 50,000's range, so, ya. Thing is I go through little spurts where once I find a fandom I like to find all the pictures and fanfiction. The trouble is with this new one... THERE PRACTICALLY IS NONE. I'm serious, There is TWO good authors with SIX stories together among ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN cruddy ones. Including mine. So if I ever want to read about my OTP I have to write it myself. Oh well. It helps me with my grammar and spelling which is very good. Trouble is, now that I've started writing a lot (like, any free time. I once typed 12,000 words in one day when I was sick) my reading level has decreased, and now when I sort through to read anything, all I find is CRUD. Seriously, it's like trying to find a needle in a haystack. So I've almost completely given up reading for now, just writing. That was probably longer than it needed to be. __________________ "I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice" -Robert Frost

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19th Feb 2009, 03:40 PM	#18
Remington [Insert Witty Title Here] Full Member Gender: Female Orientation: Lesbian Out Status: Out to everyone Location: NY Posts: 105 Join Date: Feb 2009	Re: Fanfiction Sweet, I write it too. I don't have a lot of time to anymore but I try to keep my stories updated. I use it to keep my writing skills in check. And because it's fun. C: Right now I'm obsessed with the Life with Derek fandom. That'll probably change though. Last edited by pirateninja; 19th Feb 2009 at 06:59 PM.. Reason: Removing a FFnet account name.

19th Feb 2009, 05:08 PM	#19
Lexington The gay gargoyle EC Advisor Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Colorado Age: 42 Posts: 12,371 Join Date: Dec 2007	Re: Fanfiction I've written some. It's on fanfiction.net if you're really interested. I enjoy the process. I compare it to putting chessmen on a chessboard, and then seeing how you can move the pieces around. It's a fun pasttime. Three things I'm not crazy about in the world of fanfiction: * People who are more interested in saying "I'm writing" than in writing, if that makes any sense. I've run into people who are "working on an eleven-part, one-hundred-twenty-eight chapter epic", but who can't maintain reader interest for a paragraph. You might say they're more quantity than quality. I'd rather read one killer two-page story than a full-fledged epic that isn't really done. * People who take the characters too far from the original source material, especially without TAKING the reader there. If you have to explain at the start of your story that, in the Pokemon fanfic, Ash is training to be a wizard, and he's been turned into a female dinosaur by a competing wizard, and now he's stuck on a distant planet with a gorilla sidekick... It's not that a good fanfic could be written about that. But start with what we know - Ash - and take us there. Write about him deciding to become a wizard, and how he got into an argument with the other wizard, and how he met the gorilla. I've never run into the Mary Sue thing, myself. But it's funny to think about. Lex

20th Feb 2009, 04:56 AM	#20
xballetxbeautyx Heterodox Homosexual Full Member Gender: (.)(.) Orientation: Kinsey 5? Ish? Out Status: If you don't know, where have you been all my life Location: Midwest USA Age: 17 Posts: 1,719 Join Date: Mar 2008	Re: Fanfiction Um, yeah. A lot. Hmm... Outsiders, Harry Potter, Twilight, West Side Story, and--yes, I know-- Shakespeare. (And I manage to make gay pairings in most of them...) __________________ I can't go to Pigfarts! IT'S ON MARS. You need a rocketship! Do you have a rocketship, Potter? Look at this - it's Rocketship Potter! Starkid Potter! Moonshoes Potter! Traversing the galaxy for intergalactic travels to Pigfarts!