don’t be a jerk – This is Not a Blog

I am so not here for fanfic snobbery. I don’t care if you know it has technical or storytelling flaws. I don’t care if the writing is lazy or choppy or lacks proper world-building. It’s free, made as a hobby, and written by people who (probably) have never been to a writing workshop and may have never written anything longer than a 5k essay. Fanfic already gets shit for not being “good enough” as it is. Don’t be a jerk to your fellow writers and don’t call them lazy or lame to their face. This is exactly the thing that keeps people from trying and improving in the first place. Who gives a shit if it’s not perfect? No one springs from the head of Zeus as a fully fledged writer. We all gotta start somewhere and “somewhere” is usually on the border between Meh-ville and Needs-Work-burg.