Someone's being mean on the internet

[rodo]

Does it really make me mean and elitist that I think that Sturgeon's Law applies to fanfiction? Even my own? Because it's wrong and insults the average fanfic writer by calling them incompetent (which, btw, I didn't, I was talking about stories, but apparently story = author).

I really, really should stay away from the internet for a while, or at least certain parts of it. It's just making things worse for me at the moment. Because whatever I try, if I'm feeling even remotely positive about it someone else comes and tears it completely apart.

The only problem is: I don't have anything better to do at the moment.

*whiny post is whiny*

Comments

[blnchflr]

Someone thinks Sturgeon's Law doesn't apply to fanfic? Where do they stand on gravity and its influence on Earth?

Here's something which may cheer you up: IT'S A GIRL WITH A CAT ON HER HEAD \o/

[eumelkeks]

You're right, a lot of fanfic is crap. But my rule is that one cannot - under no circumstances - tell anyone that their story may be shit because this ends in flame wars. *lol* So if I don't have anything nice to write, I don't write anything at all. I do, however, love to mock bad fic in private. It's not that I wouldn't have the guts to tell people but that a lot of writers insanely insecure and overly confident at the same time. It's the people who write, 'yeah, I wrote this in twenty minutes and I think it's crap' in their headers but expect raving reviews anyway.

[dancing_serpent]

Well, the average fanfic writer as I experience them (while wading through archive after archive and then some) is a teenaged girl who writes Mary Sue fic and gets cheerleader reviews from her friends. Not what I would call good fanfiction. *wry*