Brood_Mayran Posted July 16, 2003 Share Posted July 16, 2003 This is a fanfiction board and stuffs...but how many of you write for fanfiction.net? I have an account, but I haven't written in awhile on it...*darn writers block! Killing...sucking my SOUL!!!* Anyway, I write mainly Yugioh fiction, and my pen name is Brood Mayran. What do all of you write, and what are your pen names? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillieFan Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 I have an account as AnonymousTrigunOtaku and I write Trigun fanfics. Currently, I have a serious one (Trigun: The Aftermath) and a humor one (Trigun Meets People's Court) posted, with more coming up and additions to the serious one (a last chapter and an epilogue) on the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandit Joeykuba Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 I have an account. I written only Yu-Gi-Oh stories so far, but I plan on putting up some different ones. Pename: Blackgatomon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinmaru Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 I have a Fan Fiction account as (who else?) mirai_torankusu. I write mostly DBZ humor fics and I have a YGO humor fic. But I only have one fic that I'm really serious about right now and that's The Man in Black. I also have a Fiction Press account under the same name if anyone's interested. The link is in my signature if anyone is really interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terra Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 I have one as "terra dewrim." From which spawned the name terra for this account, by the way. I only have one fiction right now and it's a Rydia/Edge from FFII (or IV) thing. Actually that's the only reason I signed up at fanfiction.net ;) but maybe I'll put up some other fanfic later ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brasil Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 FictionPress. The Great Lord Of Estone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devidramon Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 I've got an account there and at [url]www.mediaminer.org[/url] as, of course, Devidramon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpischore Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 [color=b60039]I have one as Rayne Enyar..but they're Harry Potter fics, only one chapter, which I'm probably not going to add onto. I also have a schnoogle address, under the pen name of DarkEcho. [/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devidramon Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 Hey, another Texan? Cool! What's Schnoogle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Asphyxia Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 [size=1]Schnoogle, my good fellow, is actually a Harry Potter fanfiction site for novel length fanfictions. It falls under "Fiction Alley" -- which also has The Astronomy Tower, The Dark Arts, and Riddikulus. It's all Harry Potter fanfiction, and Schnoogle has many wonderful, brilliant pieces that are usually [i]extremely[/i] long. How do I know this? Why, I'm a Harry Potter fanfiction writer. I'm actually at fanfiction.net -- although I prefer not to disclose who I am there, because some people may take exception to some things I've written. I am, however, at Fiction Alley Park, as Arnica. I've got no works posted there, though. Isn't the ff.net downtime annoying? I still can't reach it. [/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillieFan Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 Yeah, it sure is annoying. I'm kind of having writers block anyway, nevertheless the downtime isn't something I like at all. I hope they can get the site back up (and remove some spam reviews I've been getting from someone I flamed once) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Asphyxia Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 [size=1]Are they anonymous? Because if they are, you can delete them yourself. And I know that most flamers are too cowardly to come foward and face the flak if they own up to being a flamer. I actually don't have writers block -- while it takes a while to churn out the chapters, I do get it done. However, I find it really helps when I [i]do[/i] have block to actually read other people's stories, even just to say, "Hey, if they can write, why can't I?" I like fanfiction.net over the others around because of the writer's profiles, and because you can pair characters to find the pairing you want. If you're especially squiked by slash and so on, you won't want to go in and see it accidentally, for instance. So how did you guys find your way onto FanFiction.net?[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinmaru Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 I am also not too fond of the downtime that Fan Fiction usually has. That's why I like Fiction Press a lot more; it's better run than Fan Fiction (plus, you get a lot more extra stuff for free than you do at Fan Fiction). And about flamers...if I were going to criticize someone, I'd just do it while signed in. I hate the anonymous reviewers who just pop in, flame your story, and give absolutely no constructive criticism. Luckily, I haven't had to deal with crap like that yet. EDIT: Didn't notice the question. I found Fan Fiction.net after a couple of my friends recommended me to the site when I told them that I liked to write stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpischore Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 [color=b60039]I found ff.net while in schoogle, on the review boards..sorry, I call the whole site schnoogle, but really it's called Fiction Alley...but in one of the forums there some people were talking about ff.net and so i decided to check it out..and I like ff.net because you don't have to submit your story and then wait a week before it comes out, like schnoogle. Your story in schoogle has to go through this whole beta reading thing and if there are more then like five mistakes it gets sent back...so i kinda like ff.net better..i haven't expeirienced any downtime yet...although, I havent been on ff.net in a while either..o_0[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klinanime1 Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 I've an account as klinanime1. I've mostly written smoon/gwing fics, but without senshi and gundams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillieFan Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Actually, I wish my flamer was anonymous, because those are easy enough to deal with. My flamer is a registered member of the site using signed reviews, so the only way to stop her to e-mail the [email]reportabuse@fanfiction.net[/email] thing, which I will do as soon as the site comes back up. Also, I do like that where the pairings are listed-and that is the only time I flame a story, when the pairing isn't in the summary and it's a *surprise.* I don't like yaoi surprises. One time I read this fic in the Trigun section that looked like it was WolfwoodxMilly from the summary and it was really Wolfwoodx[i]Midvalley[/i] :flaming: and yes, I know that pairing is even canon in the manga, nevertheless it's never done well by fans and. . .ugh. Anyway, I hope fanfiction.net comes back up soon. I've almost gotten another fic's first and second chapters ready to go online. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terra Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 I have this problem on ff.net that I cannot fix from any computer. Whenever I try to upload an HTML file for my chapters, it gets totally messed up, like will turn into &d;br> or something weird like that. Anyone else get that? I've just been using Word .doc's instead, but it's such a pain because they ignore [i]italics[/i] ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Asphyxia Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 [size=1]Actually, yes, that same thing happens to me. I get my wonderful beta reader to upload it for me -- she has a HTML editor.[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillieFan Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 I have a HTML editor in WordPerfect 10 (not the best one, but it ably converts Verdana font, italic, bold, underline, and other simpler commands) with two mouse clicks. I love it. -^.^- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Asphyxia Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 [size=1]Hrm. Is anyone here related with Fanfiction.net's sister site, Fictionpress.net? If not, is there a reason for you not posting original works? If so, why do you? What are your favorite genres of fanfiction writing? And have you ever come across a story that makes you stop, and say "Well...[i]that[/i] was a waste of time," or "That was almost better than canon [The actual series/books]"?[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillieFan Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Lady Asphyxia [/i] [B][size=1]Hrm. Is anyone here related with Fanfiction.net's sister site, Fictionpress.net? [/B][/QUOTE] Not yet. [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Lady Asphyxia [/i] If not, is there a reason for you not posting original works? If so, why do you?[/B][/QUOTE] My reason is that I've been writing more in fanfiction lately, however I do want to write original and have in the past, so more likely than not, my next story that's original will be there. [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Lady Asphyxia [/i] [B][size=1] What are your favorite genres of fanfiction writing? [/B][/QUOTE] Drama definitely. Humor/parody if it's done right, sometimes alternate universe if it's done well (i.e. I LOVE Gemini's fic "Deeper than Blood" which is AU and recommend it to all the Trigun fans here as a different way things could have been, but I absolutely despise the "characters in high school" or "in vampire story" fics) I like pretty much any genre though, aside from lemon and straight-out horror. [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Lady Asphyxia [/i] And have you ever come across a story that makes you stop, and say "Well...[i]that[/i] was a waste of time,"[/B][/QUOTE] More than I can count. Here are the things that ruin a story for me, in order of most to least severe: Illegibility. If the story is formatted in such a way that it is unreadable and/or has such bad grammar that I feel like I'm correcting the paper of a five-year-old, you can forget about my ever reading your work. I have made grammar and formatting errors on occasion myself, so I'm willing to overlook errors to some extent, but when it's unreadable, I'm not usually going to do the writer's work for him/her. Explicit yaoi/yuri. I find it sick, disgusting, usually an insult to the original work, often out of character, and it's really not my taste. If the rest of the story is good, I may overlook an implication or an aside comment-but when it is explicit yaoi/yuri, I'm not reading the story. Het lemons. See above. There is only one story (at least in the sections I look in at FF.net) of this nature that I have ever found to be well-written and somewhat plausible. It would be wrong of me to recommend it, and it's my one secret vice. The author was Arafel. The thing I REALLY hate is when someone adds stupidly-written, purposeless lemon to a promising story and ruins it by doing so (i.e. a good example of this is the last chapter of "Trigun Epilogue" where the writer was doing fine save some grammar and spelling errors, until that last chapter. The scene with Knives was utterly pointless lemon fanservice, which I don't understand the need for at all. Fanservice is so OOC for that character.) Stupid dialogue. By this I mean, the writer can't write one sentence without a curse, can't keep the characters somewhat in character, and much of the dialogue is "filler." I understand some of all of these things, but if you can't write even one sentence without a profanity, please-I will buy you a thesarus if you promise to make good use of it, and until then, I find something else to read, ne? Unnecessary authors notes in story. Yes, occasionally you have to have an author's note in story. I've done it myself (warning readers that a scene where male characters that hadn't met in a long time hugged each other wasn't to be interpreted as shonen ai) but really, do you have to note "she fell down *anime style*" anytime someone falls? Come on, these are anime characters-how else would they fall? Not defining/spacing "thought speech" or "flashbacks". This is the most minor offense and usually doesn't make a story an avoid for me, but it is annoying. You have italics, bold, parentheses, asterisks, brackets, quotation marks, and a space bar-please make use of one of them. [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Lady Asphyxia [/i] or "That was almost better than canon [The actual series/books]"?[/size] [/B][/QUOTE] Yes. I've found a few "diamonds in the rough" that are like this. Authors I'd recommend for the Trigun section, where I've looked at the most writing (though I haven't read their "R" works since almost all of those are lemons LOL) would be Astra M, Arafel, Gemini, Clineston Beardesmung for one story not his more perverse ones, (I hope I got that spelling right) Babboo (for "When Its Over-I do wish she would update), Amaya, and a few others I can't think of right now. If anyone ever wants to see my favorite stories list, I will post it. -^.^- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brasil Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 I'm strictly FictionPress. I've written one true fanfic, a poem about a Smash Bros. Tourney. All of my other works, while incorporating outside characters, still reside within my own subconscial world. My stories involving pre-made characters are often parodies but I've since changed my approach to writing satire/parody after my very first few posts on FictionPress or FanFiction. If you check out my early stuff, specifically 2nd Greatest Story Ever Told, you'll see it's abysmal. It was really my first attempt at an all-encompassing parody work, and is often quite bad. The only parts of 2nd Greatest Story with redeeming value seem to be the scenes that were birthed completely out of my imagination, with no inclusion of copyrighted characters. No offence to anyone here, but I find much FanFic to be utterly dull and often unnecessary, as the characters being used are often fully developed before the FanFic is even conceived. Because the characters are already interpreted, it's extremely difficult to do anything fresh with them, and I always find the FanFic to disintegrate into a muddled pool of incoherent dialogue, narration, and generally immature development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinmaru Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Lady Asphyxia [/i] [B][size=1]Hrm. Is anyone here related with Fanfiction.net's sister site, Fictionpress.net? If not, is there a reason for you not posting original works? If so, why do you? What are your favorite genres of fanfiction writing? And have you ever come across a story that makes you stop, and say "Well...[i]that[/i] was a waste of time," or "That was almost better than canon [The actual series/books]"?[/size] [/B][/QUOTE] Yep, I mentioned that I had a Fiction Press account earlier in the thread. In fact, I prefer Fiction Press to Fan Fiction, simply because Fiction Press is better run. I like posting original works because it's more challenging to think up a good story with your own characters. Anyone could take pre-made characters and make a story with them. I think it's more fun to make up your own stuff. My favorite genre of Fan Fiction is humor, but that's also the genre on Fan Fiction that's notoriously hard to find a good story for. For every good humor fic I've found on Fan Fiction, there are hundreds of God-awful stories cluttering the area (especially in the Dragon Ball Z and Yu-Gi-Oh! areas). Oh yeah, I've come across many stories that were a complete waste of time. Usually, you can just look at the title and know that it will be horrible. Sometimes, you get a pleasant surprise. I read a [url=http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1286678]Final Fantasy VII fan fiction[/url] that dealt with Cloud and Sephiroth's journey to Nibelheim and the Mako Reactor. It was simply a fantastic, well-written story and remains my favorite fan fiction that I've read on FF.net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Asphyxia Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 [size=1]Let me tell you my views on Fiction Press and Fan Fiction. As many of you have said, it's incredibly hard sorting the acceptable from the piles of dung that can appear sometimes. Fan fiction to me is appealing because the characters are already somewhat defined. To me, it's much easier to get involved in the story because the character background is already there -- there's no boring mess that many ametuer writers make [that is, a background mess]. You can also find characters you want quite easily. And, better still, the fanbase is often quite large -- and most people love reviews and criticism [[url="http://otakuboards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27665"]*cough*[/url]] so it's convenient. Besides which, most fanfiction writers mold the characters to become totally new. It gives experience for writers jsut starting out. However, original fiction can be just as appealing. You have freedom to decide you're character's history, you cannot be accused of being 'Out Of Character', and your inspiration isn't based on something completely tangible. The only downside is the lack of fanbase -- although I haven't been to Fiction Press for a while, so I'm not sure what the review situation is like.[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terra Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 I post my fan fiction on the web but not my original fiction. I'm not sure why ... I guess one reason is I'm afraid my original fiction won't appeal to anybody but me :-P Fan fiction has such a huge fan base already, and it's fun. I do enjoy writing original fiction better, though, because I like entirely making up my own stories :) On a slightly dissimilar but related note, I'm taking a fiction workshop class this summer. Today I have to bring in my piece and the other people in the class are going to read it and rip it apart on Thursday ... [deep sigh] This is probably the first time I've ever actually let other people read my work! I'm scared, wish me good luck :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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