Gggrrr....
Oct. 22nd, 2002 01:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clo_againWHY is it so difficult to find good fanfiction? I've just sat here until.. *looks at watch* 1:15am looking for good, non-LotR-related fanfic (I've been looking for good LotR fanfic for the last eight months so I fancied a change) and I've found nothing! Nada, zilch, zero. Oh there were one or two random slashy 'Perfect Murder' fics and one good-storyline-idea-but-absolutely-terrible-writing Gone In Sixty Seconds one, but those took nearly an hour and a half to find. Why doesn't someone make a GOOD version of ff.net, with a 'No Mary-Sues' rule? Is there one out there that I can't find? If there is, then why haven't I found it? Gggrrr.....
One more little rant: Why, on ff.net, do people say "R&R!!!!!" with about ten exclaimation marks? If someone is asking me to review before I've even finished reading the summary then I automatically dismiss the fic as some useless heap of junk and move on. A summary is to tell you what the fic is about. Not to beg for reviews. In fact I try to make a point of *not* asking for reviews, just being grateful to people when I get them. I love feedback as much as any fanfic author, but if I have to go round prompting people for it then maybe I should spend more time improving my writing so people review *without* encouragement than waste time convincing people to say what they think of the fic. If my writing isn't good enough to make people hit a button and type a few words then will saying: "R&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!" make ANY difference at all? Apparently, by the amount of reviews some terrible Mary-Sues on ff.net has, it will.
Okay, rant over. I definitely needed to get that out of my system and now I'm heading bed-wards. Night!
One more little rant: Why, on ff.net, do people say "R&R!!!!!" with about ten exclaimation marks? If someone is asking me to review before I've even finished reading the summary then I automatically dismiss the fic as some useless heap of junk and move on. A summary is to tell you what the fic is about. Not to beg for reviews. In fact I try to make a point of *not* asking for reviews, just being grateful to people when I get them. I love feedback as much as any fanfic author, but if I have to go round prompting people for it then maybe I should spend more time improving my writing so people review *without* encouragement than waste time convincing people to say what they think of the fic. If my writing isn't good enough to make people hit a button and type a few words then will saying: "R&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!" make ANY difference at all? Apparently, by the amount of reviews some terrible Mary-Sues on ff.net has, it will.
Okay, rant over. I definitely needed to get that out of my system and now I'm heading bed-wards. Night!
