futile question

[rm]

Are there any fandoms containing more than ten people that aren't just filled with scads and scads of horrible fic?

Dear Star Wars Fandom,

The fact the George Lucas can't write is not justification for you to turn out shit as well. Thanks!

Owie.

Comments

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

Fandoms of only about a dozen people can still turn out really wretched fic, I've discovered.

Ad you've made me realize that if I pursue a pro genre writing career, I too may someday have fanficcers. And odds are that some of them will suck. Sigh.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

You could probably delete words five through nine of your question, and get the same answer.

[dacuteturtle.livejournal.com]

For the most part, I've avoided the whole fan-fic thing, but mostly because I didn't know about it back then. When I did discover it, it was too awful to read for words. I was past the age where it really mattered. These day, I am well and quite able to invent my own bad fiction, thank you very much.

My one foray into fanfic was a Northern Exposure/Buffy crossover. Yeah. That was fun and took me a stiff month.

I don't blame fandom. I blame writing teachers who tell their students to "express themselves." If you write to express yourself, then you write a bad story. Storytelling is storytelling, and expression is expression. They are two different beasts. When you confuse the two, you get things like fanfic.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

All I want to do is read about Obi-wan, and not the horrific messes out there. Le sigh.