Discussion Fan Fic Pet Peeves?

Too true. So much Weasley, Dumbledore, Hermione, etc bashing. Some of the characters I don't like, but the bashing is out of hand. Give us some positivity for once!

 

I think I could better understand Jacen going Sith if he had more mental problems after the Vong war.

 

Agreed. But again, that would've been an after-the-fact, ad hoc rationalization as well. It only works if he's already been written as experiencing the onset of such issues within the NJO series, or at the very least, the Dark Nest trilogy.

My two kopecks.

 

I think he was starting to experience the onset of such issues when he tricked Jaina and the others into launching that strike on the Chiss. I think he lied to her, hoping she would go along.

 

That is true, but I think Goodwood is correct, it is obvious that they decided to do the Sith Jacen storyline after NJO and the Swarm Wars were written and then they were scrambling to justify his turn to the darkside. I have to say...they did a better job than Lucas did explaining Anakin Skywalker's fall from grace.

I guess I can't complain about fanfics writing OOC and stupid storylines when the profics are guilty of the same.

 

Vergere's actions are confusing and some thinking her as some sort of Dark Sider at the least isn't too far fetched. In my AU of the old EU I had her compromise her ideals in order to survive and allowed herself to be drawn to the belief that the Dark Side doesn't exist. Then to spread the belief she was willing to stand by as the leaders of the Jedi Order were killed in order to corrupt the younger generation(s) but she was caught and had the opportunity to explain herself to Yoda and Anakin Skywalker's Force Ghosts.

But yes, character bashing is really annoying.

 

+1

Been stuck in a single scene FOR A MONTH. The rest of the story has long been done, but not the very next scene that needs to take place. Kill me.

 

In cases like that, it's my experience that the best solution is to throw out the old material and start afresh, or else figure out why you think said passage needs reworking in the first place. Sometimes we can focus so much on what we thought was "right" about a previous draft that we can forget what wasn't so great.

 

I've been stuck on RPs. It's really bothering me. RPing has really been the only writing I do, lately, and now I can't seem to write anything. It's not that I'm burned out, as I have replies that have been sitting for weeks. I just can't focus enough to work on them.

 

Getting stuck is a huge peeve of mine too. I've been stuck on these two paragraphs for a week and a half. I just can't get them right. I know what they need to say (they're outlined), so why I can't make them say it I do not know. *headdesk*

 

*joins the stuck parade*

 

*shrug*

 

When a critic is maddeningly vague on what they would have me correct in my story, never going into specifics.

 

Say that you're encouraging constructive criticism, perhaps that will help.

 

Yeah, well, this took place in private where concrit was a given.

hmmmmm......... (goes to edit thread)

 

People telling you how to write your story, ugh I hate that! I've had people doing that to me with a Star Wars fic, and it's like, "I did this because I want to, go write your own!" YEESH!

 

Or people telling you what to write.

 

Or people telling you what you can't write.

 

Or people telling you what you can't write in a five paragraph angry rant, laced with the F-Word. And that brings me to MY PET PEEVE--trying to get FFN to delete the review and never having a moderator ever--and I mean not once in the last ten years--acknowledge any PM or request you sent them.

Has anybody tried to contact a FFN moderator and got ANY response?

That is why I like TFN; we have good moderators.

 

I've never gotten a response from one.

 

Then do they even exist?

 

Supposedly they exist and one did tell an author to take down their plagiarized fics.

 

I believe I read somewhere that there are exactly two of them. Occasionally they will respond to user complaints and delete a bunch of fics that plagiarize/violate copyright/have explicit content, but that's about it.

But yeah, people telling you what you should/shouldn't write about. It's one thing to say "I'm guessing thing X will happen!" or "I'd love to see thing Y!" and quite another to send you a review/PM with several paragraphs of what ought to happen next. I've definitely seen or experienced that sort of thing a couple times, usually on fanfiction.net but occasionally on AO3.