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Fanfiction is a drug for me and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Sadly it's perhaps one of the biggest indicators of how totally Aspie I am. I've tried so hard to write original stories but it's so stressful. Reading and writing fanfiction is more relaxing and is more recreational for me...especially fun when I read the really bad stories

Despite being a girl, I'm surprised by my lack of ability to write romance fics. I dunno why. When I read fluff fics, the dialogue is so squishy that it's almost like kindergarten kids are talking. I've been writing fanfics for nearly a decade and my early works really do scream out "teenage writing crap" cuz I really would write pointless plots without thinking about how my stories would end back then. I've matured my writing more now...except yeah I should be writing more original stories. I did write one short story for fictionpress that I feel really proud of. The rest of my original stories though are just pure garbage.

"Despite being a girl..." It's strange that you should say that. Because there is this assumption out there still that females are inextricably caught up in the whole romance scene. Romance stories never interested me unless there was something else to offer. Not to say that I haven't included the occasional romance elements in my own work but when I do it's usually the characters themselves taking me along... Make sense?

Funny enough I don't really do Mary Sues either. I think that well-done MSs are possible especially if they are a fleshed out three dimensional character in their own right and their presence in the story is justified. After all weren't some established "canon" characters designed to be representations of the authors? But I'm more for fitting characters to roles as needed.

As for... I believe that someone earlier had a mini-rant about Original characters in fanfiction. I don't think it's really viable to do fanfic for a significant length of time without including original characters. After all there are still those roles that need to be filled if not by an established character, then by an original one. I look on originals as being the equivalent of for example a one-time character on a TV show. Of course they are necessary.

The problem is when they do not fit well with the other characters or the environment.

I used to read mostly Harry Potter fanfiction when the series was not yet finished. My favorite stuff was by Lavender Brown (I think that was her username.) I then referred it to my cousin who got in trouble because there are some romantic things going on in there. At the same time, I liked LB's fanfiction because it didn't just focus on romance, it included action and a story and mysteries and stuff (from what I think I remember...maybe if I went back and read it now, I wouldn't like it as much.)

Fanfiction is my current hobby right now. I write cartoon x-overs, a couple of Van Helsing fics, and a X-Men fic so far.

A funny thing occurred to me while reading the last few posts... I'm actually going back and forth between being on the internet and typing a chapter of fanfic right now.



I'd love to try dreaming up a good crossover -- but only if it's a good idea and nothing springs to mind right now.

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What genres have people written in?
I got stuff from humour, drama, sci-fi/adventure, angst, friendship, H.C. Possibly tragedy too although I didn't say so because that's like sticking up a big SPOILER of "someone's gonna die."

Fan-fiction is something that gives me the screaming heebie jeebies. Some of it might be good, but I just can't read it. It's an aversion, like the sickening smell of microwave popcorn. I suppose that's strange.

I don't want to write any, either.

I do enjoy a well written and concieved fanfic. However, there is a lot of garbage out there and I have had to "train" myself to recognize which fics are probably horrible based on their sumerys. I might have missed some good stuff doing this but I doubt that I missed much. Oh, and ping-machine, Mary Sues are, by definition, one-dimensional.

While typically so, there is little to suggest that this HAS to be the case- as in "by definition". That's like, the majority of (typical) sheep are white, therefore sheep are white by definition.

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"Mary Sue" -- or let's not forget Gary Sue, Marty Stu, Mary Stu... and all those others -- is, at his/her essence, a character in a story who (in some way) represents or stands in for the author. Superman and Wesley Crusher are examples! ~not to say that Wesley isn't an annoying prat but just that the category is a lot broader than one might assume on first glance.

So while it is difficult, it is not impossible to find well done examples of Sue/stu who function all right as characters, and there is nothing in the definition that says they are ALL two dimensional characters, nor that they must be.

Not to discount your argument completely because I believe the same for the most part. Just might be better to take care before saying that something is always the case without exception -- as implied by the assertion "by definition".

Very strange. Sorry that was just too good an opening -- Just had to take it!

<I have no idea what microwave popcorn smells like anyway>

But Hell... Is there anyone in this world who isn't strange??

As for what I've written, a lot of stuff for the Halo series of video games at Halo Fan Fiction Wiki mind you, it's in a wiki format, so it's more "fake encyclopedia articles" on characters, vehicles, weapons, etc. Just be warned, some of my older stuff isn't the best....and my slf based character, Ross East, I supposed to have Asperger's Syndrome, but doesn't always display the traits (I state that he later gets over the traits of AS).

How do you like MY fanfiction from the link below? I have many swell ideas for fanfics floating in my head

I must have missed that everyone was posting links (Not sure how I missed that) so I shall too.

click here for link to fanfics

Mostly Deep Space Nine fandom but some Greek Mythology and Next Gen. as well.
(so far)

I'm a bit too bleary eyed to look right now but will certainly check out some of those links at some point in time.

Still having problems getting my ideas together, but I'm trying to get organized. Looking to branch out to my other loves.

I have never writen fan fiction but I would like to because I watch alot of tv and movies and always keep thinking crossovers and it should be writen down but it looks hard to me. I have on occassions read some fan fictions. Two in particular I like are Agent-G's crossover with the Justice League cartoon and Spider-Man and a crossover between Beast Wars Transformers and Pokemon. I have just recently discovered a Justice League/Ben 10 crossover from a guy who was inspired by the Spider-Man one.

I have written and I do read some fanfics. I fon't now as much as I use to because of a show I'm working on on YouTube. Here's my FanFiction account to show what I've made...

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2182607/BigJohnnyCool

One of these days I would like to write at least 1 or 2 more stories...

Lately, I've been wanting the join this site: www.writing.com/main
But seeing as registration asks for a whole bunch of personal information that's really not necessary and rather wuite nosy, I'm starting to think it's not worth it...

I only have a vague idea of fan fiction, and from what I've read in the preceding posts, that might be a good thing.