If there's one thing I've always been, it's a Fan. What I'm a Fan of changes, but nevertheless, I'm a Fan. I think it's a personality thing, and either you are or you aren't.
I've figured out ways to find better fanfiction, because you're right, most of it is crap. One way is to find an author or fan whose tastes I trust, and only read stories that are recomended to me. For instance, I love emmagrant01's fics, so when she recs a story, I tend to check it out. I also read stories recc'ed to me by real life friends like ourglasslake. So, really, once you find one author or story you like, it's a doorway to many many others.
All good fanfiction actually does have editors. They're called betas, and many fanfic communities and mailing lists won't accept unbetaed stories.
Fanfiction, I recognize, is hardly high literature, although I've read some stuff that's as good as canon. It's just a desire for more...there's too much time between books and movies, and I want more, dammit. *lol* And I like seeing how different authors play with characterization.
Aaaand I'm pervy and like reading slash.
I've actually read the wikipedia entry. It's not bad...the only problem is that every fandom has slightly different customs, so it's hard to talk about the particulars of fanfic in ways that are universal, although there are some exceptions: for instance, slash almost always means the same thing and is in every fandom.
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Date: 2006-02-26 08:15 pm (UTC)I've figured out ways to find better fanfiction, because you're right, most of it is crap. One way is to find an author or fan whose tastes I trust, and only read stories that are recomended to me. For instance, I love
All good fanfiction actually does have editors. They're called betas, and many fanfic communities and mailing lists won't accept unbetaed stories.
Fanfiction, I recognize, is hardly high literature, although I've read some stuff that's as good as canon. It's just a desire for more...there's too much time between books and movies, and I want more, dammit. *lol* And I like seeing how different authors play with characterization.
Aaaand I'm pervy and like reading slash.
I've actually read the wikipedia entry. It's not bad...the only problem is that every fandom has slightly different customs, so it's hard to talk about the particulars of fanfic in ways that are universal, although there are some exceptions: for instance, slash almost always means the same thing and is in every fandom.