Gggrrr....

[clo_again]

WHY 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!

Comments

Re: Why Mary Sue=More Reviews

[clo.livejournal.com]

Ah, tell me about it. The one thing that annoys me more than a terrible fic is a fic with a good idea behind it that gets spoiled by terrible writing. I start thinking, "Damn, this could have been great if they'd done it like *that* or if *this* had happened..... or they had *not* said *that*!!"

*Oscar*? Okay then..... some people just should not be allowed to write fic. Or at least not allowed to inflict it on others until they get better at it. Hmm... not quite sure how that would work though.

*grins* As the rest of the points.... you are absolutely right.