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Originally posted by HollowTorment
Have you ever been to fanfiction.net? That\'s one reason..
Second reason, fanfic authors usually think too highly of themselves and their writing ability. Sorry to use you as an example, Mega X, but you decided to do a fanfic for my favorite videogame of all time.
See, Mega X is going to \"novelize\" Chrono Trigger. Which might turn out good, we won\'t know. But lets say...a person with a fondness for Magus wrote this novelization. It will mostly focus on Magus..will add extra lines he never said in the game, will give him extra mannerisms, will give him more of a personality, will give him a fanmade love interest, and it goes downhill from there.
The fanfics that bother me most are the ones revolving around love or some such. Like X and Alia fanfics. All of those are just usually done by drooling fanboys that want to see romance in the X games or some stupid shit.
Anyways, bottom line. Want to be taken seriously in your storywriting? Make your own characters. Make a wonderful storyline for them. Build on it. Then you won\'t be a lazy hack.
I do kind of like Crono better, and I will add lines he never said. Crono isn\'t mute though. Trust me, I\'m writing this because I need to werite down my ideas. I can\'t write as good as a lot of people, but I want to write for the fun of it. Writing
is fun after all.
As for FF.net, that place has a load of crap. I\'m not saying it\'s all bad. If you ever go there, and find an author named Cyberwave, don\'t read my earlier works. They suck. My story under the same name on Fictionpress.net, is mediocre. These story, will be better.
One last note, Chrono Trigger is, without a doubt,
the greatest game ever made.