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I'm finding this is starting to happen more frequently...
...and it's starting to piss me off.
Has anyone else noticed the recent influx of suckiness in fandom? Like, all of them? Especially in fics and videos? Like, I hate reading WIPs, so I try to wait until they're done to read them. And there are some that sound really interesting and I'm really excited to read, and then I do. And it completely sucks ass. Everyone is so out of character, the grammar and spelling are atrocious. Ugh. It's almost to the point where I wish I could leave feedback or something that says "Please stop writing. You suck." But know I can't. Grrr.
And with the vids! Oy! With Microsoft including Windows Movie Maker on all the operating systems now, it seems like everyone and their 80 year old mother feels like they can do this. And most of the time, people just take a song and plop random scenes on top that don't go with the song, have nothing to do with the song.
It's just disaapointing cos I feel like sometimes, a lot of the good writers and vid makers are getting discouraged, cos there's all this crap out there and yet people keep gushing "ZOMG!!!!!111!! That was sooooo amazing!! Ur the best!" And they're not. And now I'm rambling, so I'm gonna shut up now.
Does anyone else feel this way?
Has anyone else noticed the recent influx of suckiness in fandom? Like, all of them? Especially in fics and videos? Like, I hate reading WIPs, so I try to wait until they're done to read them. And there are some that sound really interesting and I'm really excited to read, and then I do. And it completely sucks ass. Everyone is so out of character, the grammar and spelling are atrocious. Ugh. It's almost to the point where I wish I could leave feedback or something that says "Please stop writing. You suck." But know I can't. Grrr.
And with the vids! Oy! With Microsoft including Windows Movie Maker on all the operating systems now, it seems like everyone and their 80 year old mother feels like they can do this. And most of the time, people just take a song and plop random scenes on top that don't go with the song, have nothing to do with the song.
It's just disaapointing cos I feel like sometimes, a lot of the good writers and vid makers are getting discouraged, cos there's all this crap out there and yet people keep gushing "ZOMG!!!!!111!! That was sooooo amazing!! Ur the best!" And they're not. And now I'm rambling, so I'm gonna shut up now.
Does anyone else feel this way?
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hehe I'm guilty of much worse. *g* When I started writing, I had all these lofty ideas and then discovered that I made all the worst mistakes! Everything I hated about bad!fic ended up in my story. *g* It's not as easy to avoid all these pitfalls as it appears. *g*
It's the ones where it seems like the people don't even have a 3rd grade reading/writing ability that I can't get past. And if they're archived on a site, not just their LJ, and you go look and see that they have like 10 other stories... Did no one ever say "You might need a beta?" or something? Ugh.
I know. In one of my previous fandoms, there was actually a huge backlash against using betas or even worrying about spelling or grammar at all because it was seen as inhibiting the creative process or something. *g*
And I'm totally with you on the linking to chapters in LJ. I only have 1 series really going right now and each new chapter has a link to the ones before it. I haven't gone back to do the "Next Chapter" thing, but that's a good reminder. Thanks! :-)
I might not have thought of it as a writer either, but as a reader, it sure makes things easier. *g*