Erm... I've tried. There are apparently some excellent ones and very well written they are too, but most of them read as OF to me and that's not what I come to fandom land for... My OF reading time is already too small for all of the books I'm always piling up to read. About 80% of my reading time is spent on novels and the other 20% on fan fiction... rather like my writing time.
I've also often found that the plotting goes horribly wrong in a lot of longer fan fiction stories, the AU ones in particular. The editor in me is often struck by how I could cut 20-30,000 words out and have it be a much stronger story. Just a personal opinion and one that's got me in to a lot of trouble. I've been around in fandom for long enough to learn the hard way that sacred cows must *not* be tipped not unless you want to see a lot of torches and pitchforks so I usually stay out of story discussions. I passed a comment on plot structure in an Ellis Ward story once while saying how much I'd enjoyed it anyway and received PMs that were awfully polite but basically told me to mind my Ps and Qs.
I don't mind the occasional divergent storyline type of thing quite so much, y'know, the sort of thing where one of the lads is still in CI5, but still, not really my thing.
Thank you for your MFU fandom pimping efforts. *g*
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Erm... I've tried. There are apparently some excellent ones and very well written they are too, but most of them read as OF to me and that's not what I come to fandom land for... My OF reading time is already too small for all of the books I'm always piling up to read. About 80% of my reading time is spent on novels and the other 20% on fan fiction... rather like my writing time.
I've also often found that the plotting goes horribly wrong in a lot of longer fan fiction stories, the AU ones in particular. The editor in me is often struck by how I could cut 20-30,000 words out and have it be a much stronger story. Just a personal opinion and one that's got me in to a lot of trouble. I've been around in fandom for long enough to learn the hard way that sacred cows must *not* be tipped not unless you want to see a lot of torches and pitchforks so I usually stay out of story discussions. I passed a comment on plot structure in an Ellis Ward story once while saying how much I'd enjoyed it anyway and received PMs that were awfully polite but basically told me to mind my Ps and Qs.
I don't mind the occasional divergent storyline type of thing quite so much, y'know, the sort of thing where one of the lads is still in CI5, but still, not really my thing.
Thank you for your MFU fandom pimping efforts. *g*