Fanfiction is for Unimaginative Retards Incapable of Creation who Instead Mimic Their Superiors
CREATE. DON'T IMITATE.
I was walking through the internet when I saw a traveling salesman standing at the doorway to a writer's convention.
I walked toward the man to listen to what he had to say:
No talent? No imagination? Want to do something that is nothing more than a decent homage at best?
We have for you, Fan-Fiction! For those writers who really like books, but just have no idea how to make their own characters and their own dramas.
All you have to do is write a story using a couple of names from other books, or hell, go all out and use the same characters the original, creative artist did. Why bother creating when you can imitate?
Unable to create emotional characters? Just tell us how they feel, who broke their heart, and what this has to do with a werewolf.
Haven't read a book published before 1990?
Who cares! That's where all that unimportant subtlety and characterization, building realistic renders of human beings went out of style.
Unable to create anything but shallow relationships based on looks and mutual amusements? Be sure to put vampires and nymphs and gods and goddesses in, the really really beautiful ones, and describe their clothes at length.
If you want to live in some adolescent fantasy world, where realism prefers not to go, why not chart the tawdry shallow water of an overused premise?
What choice do you have? How about this: imagine. Create your own stories. You have the ability to create original characters.
YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO WRITE SOMETHING THAT ISN'T BASICALLY AN OBSESSIVE RESPONSE TO AN AUTHOR YOU LIKE WHO REALLY HAS NO MORE TALENT THAN YOU.
Who cares! Why go through their understanding of each other, their ability to see in one another something deeper than an idle attraction? Fuck it! Just say the guy was hot and the bitch fucked him!
Unable to bring all the threads to a conclusion? Nobody made it this fucking far because fan-fiction is the same derivative unimaginative garbage over and over that lacks depth, characterization, and creativity.
You can't take other people's stories and use their ability to idly write your stupid fucking "what if this character did this with that one?" style and personally, I'd recommend reading something that isn't a derivative (Bram Stoker's Dracula) of a derivative (interview of the vampire) of a derivative (Twilight) of a derivative (My Immortal-the worst fanfiction of all time.)
And come to my page, tell me my stories suck. I don't give a fuck if they suck or not. End the end, at least I made the ship up on my own without having to pluck characters from a story of someone more successful. STOP IT. YOU'RE MAKING REAL WRITERS LOOK BAD.
I decided to tell him I disagreed and proceeded to flame him because using elements from other people's stories isn't plagiarism, it's flattery. The end.
LISTEN GOD DAMMIT
I walked toward the man to listen to what he had to say:
No talent? No imagination? Want to do something that is nothing more than a decent homage at best?
We have for you, Fan-Fiction! For those writers who really like books, but just have no idea how to make their own characters and their own dramas.
All you have to do is write a story using a couple of names from other books, or hell, go all out and use the same characters the original, creative artist did. Why bother creating when you can imitate?
Unable to create emotional characters? Just tell us how they feel, who broke their heart, and what this has to do with a werewolf.
Haven't read a book published before 1990?
Who cares! That's where all that unimportant subtlety and characterization, building realistic renders of human beings went out of style.
Unable to create anything but shallow relationships based on looks and mutual amusements? Be sure to put vampires and nymphs and gods and goddesses in, the really really beautiful ones, and describe their clothes at length.
If you want to live in some adolescent fantasy world, where realism prefers not to go, why not chart the tawdry shallow water of an overused premise?
What choice do you have? How about this: imagine. Create your own stories. You have the ability to create original characters.
YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO WRITE SOMETHING THAT ISN'T BASICALLY AN OBSESSIVE RESPONSE TO AN AUTHOR YOU LIKE WHO REALLY HAS NO MORE TALENT THAN YOU.
Who cares! Why go through their understanding of each other, their ability to see in one another something deeper than an idle attraction? Fuck it! Just say the guy was hot and the bitch fucked him!
Unable to bring all the threads to a conclusion? Nobody made it this fucking far because fan-fiction is the same derivative unimaginative garbage over and over that lacks depth, characterization, and creativity.
You can't take other people's stories and use their ability to idly write your stupid fucking "what if this character did this with that one?" style and personally, I'd recommend reading something that isn't a derivative (Bram Stoker's Dracula) of a derivative (interview of the vampire) of a derivative (Twilight) of a derivative (My Immortal-the worst fanfiction of all time.)
And come to my page, tell me my stories suck. I don't give a fuck if they suck or not. End the end, at least I made the ship up on my own without having to pluck characters from a story of someone more successful. STOP IT. YOU'RE MAKING REAL WRITERS LOOK BAD.
I decided to tell him I disagreed and proceeded to flame him because using elements from other people's stories isn't plagiarism, it's flattery. The end.
LISTEN GOD DAMMIT