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ginny_weasley31

You're Welcome!

Oct 20, 2010 18:45

Yeah... this is an open letter to a certain Twi fanfic author because I'm pissed off and she's not the only person to do such a thing. Feel free to ignore!

( You're Pulling Your Fanfiction while it's a WIP to publish? )

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2step41 October 21 2010, 01:13:50 UTC

I couldn't have said it better myself;) I personally read fanfiction because I love being able to continue on with the Edward/Bella characters. I will NEVER read a fanfiction story that has been changed with other names. I do have some respect for authors who at least finish their story and allow readers to read it before they pull it...but to pull it before it is finished and then tell us we need to buy the published version to get the ending...REALLY? I think I will pass!

ginny_weasley31 October 21 2010, 02:04:14 UTC

There was one... a nanny!fic by saewood. The author pulled to make it ofic. The ofic was avail for free on a different site. I skimmed the end. I didn't like it and didn't care one way or the other about her characters.

Heck, many ofics I end up picturing as a version of E/B... seriously. I know, I'm pathetic. LOL!

2step41 October 21 2010, 02:17:39 UTC

My E/B obsession has no end:) Who would have thought that after reading Twilight 2 years ago I would have been sucked into this world of fanfiction I previously knew nothing about, so if you are pathetic I am right there with you;)

I really only read completed fics now and I always save them before I read them just in case they get pulled before I finish.

ginny_weasley31 October 21 2010, 02:39:43 UTC

LOL! I read this fic. It was a WIP and I loved it muchly. It was a 3some, bdsm and I thought I wouldn't like it, but... the writing yanked me right it. Then it suddenly wasn't updating and then it was pulled. Turns out that it was a plagiarised ofic. A friend of mine & I bought the ebook... and then... erm... changed the names to finish reading it. Since then I tried to read it with the original names and I can't do it. But with the fanfic names... yeah... totally loved it.

I think I need more therapy.

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scatteredlogic October 21 2010, 01:21:20 UTC

LOL - I see another one has let her ego get away from her.

You did it because it's comfortable, familiar, and because you had a built in audience to feed your ego, to encourage your writing and your creativity.

Yep, and then they turn around and tell that built-in audience to fork over cash if they want to read the rest of the story? Why on earth would anyone want to pay to read her story specifically? There's too much good free fanfic and even profic out there to justify giving a penny to someone who pulls a bait-and-switch on their readers.

ginny_weasley31 October 21 2010, 02:08:29 UTC

The egos are so flippin' huge around there! Cripes!

And what makes my eyes roll even harder is the fact that much of the publishing that's going on over there is with Omnific which is the publisher run by the people who own Twilighted and TWC which is the publishing house (I use that term loosely) for a site called The Writer's Coffee Shop... it is also a fanfic site. It's utterly ridiculous.

Makes me want to stick out my tongue and name my FRIENDS who have legitimate publishers publishing their books.

I can be so childish. :D

mayden October 21 2010, 02:14:34 UTC

Are you going to publish Coming To Terms?
That should be published imho.

ginny_weasley31 October 21 2010, 02:25:46 UTC

No. I am not. It was written as a fanfic and will remain that way. However, I will not rule out every going back to it, reworking it into a publishable story... but if that were to happen it really wouldn't resemble the original.

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mayden October 21 2010, 02:12:05 UTC

Icon.
IA on feed the ego.

vysed October 21 2010, 02:13:38 UTC

I seriously think that i am just going to only read completed fics from now on, and only ones that someone else DL's for me so that i can avoid all fic sites as much as possible. Or go back to normal fandoms. Ohhh i think i will dumpster dive fpr old skool veronica mars fics. Oh oh or Alias.

mayden October 21 2010, 02:29:22 UTC

Chiming in.
Since the very beginning, I have always read COMPLETE fics.
When people rec. fics however popular or 50.000+ reviews it has, I will first and foremost check the LAST UPDATED date. It is never a good sign if the date is more than 2 weeks (whatever the reason of the author is). If an author can ask the readers to UNDERSTAND why the fic is still WIP, surely readers can ask author to understand if they deliberately choose to stop reading said-fic, and find something else to read.

So far I think I've only ever followed 3 WIP fics, and 2 of them is now finished.

ginny_weasley31 October 21 2010, 02:32:31 UTC

I read WIPs. I sometimes really enjoy predicting the direction of the story or watching the story as it evolves. But, yeah... I hate it when this stuff happens. I feel betrayed, tbh.

mayden October 21 2010, 02:39:05 UTC

There should be like an Unofficial Manual to Choose Fics, lol.
There authors out there that is really ~responsible y'know what I mean? And there are actually those (I think) who will write solely for reviews, not because it is an inner calling to deliver the fic, to storytell a fic: to be ~famous.

Definitely..., reviews count =/= decent plot.

There is this fic that was heavily rec. in L_L, I Story Alerted it, and was surprised that midway it transformed from teen/angst AH into sorta supernatural, um... okay.

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ginny_weasley31 October 21 2010, 02:26:45 UTC

ROTFL!

I KNOW! And to think that THAT used to irritate me. :)