Re: OT: My Top Five Peevs of Fanfiction

[Nathan Campbell <NathanCampbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mad-Hamlet@xxxxxxx wrote:

> The other biggie and I have no idea why this happens so often..
> Lose..to be denided victory.
> It's L O S E ..not L O O S E. I see that in at least one out of every
> five fanfics.


I know, it's horrible; I've never understood why that happens so
much.


> 2. Been written about before and will be written about again no doubt,
> probably by someone better than I..I'm talking about the ANC. (Annoyig
> New Character.) Thankfully this does not pop up often in Buffy-fics,
> many writers seem content to simply play with the cast as they are.
> Yay.
> But boy..sometimes.. An ANC is a thinly vieled attempt at an SI..or
> self insertion..the author putting himself that universe.
> The best of these, and I mean the hands down, drop dead, BEST..are
> actually quite a joy to behold.


If you don't normally like self-inserts, an epic, non-buffy fic I've
read would either knock your socks off with joy, or be completely
unreadable. I'm talking about Undocumented Features, which I
personally found very good. It's a gigantic
crossover-within-an-alternate-universe-within-reality-within-a-fanfic,
that some people here, especially those that like Bubblegum Crisis,
may enjoy parts of.
It can be found at Eyrie Productions-

http://www.eyrie.net/

-in the UF section.



Nathan Campbell
NathanCampbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx