The Dark Elitist – Diary of a Young Writer

Fanfiction, the ever growin, overused cliche that is currently littering the net. Basically writing a story set in another author's world and mostly with other author's characters. Yet young aspiring writers choose to write this and ask me "Oh will you review my fanfic, I'm a really good writer." Often the answer is a sharp "No" and I am about to explain why.

I don't get the idea of writing something which at the end you have to disclaim that it belongs to X Author, the fun of completing a piece which you can then go onto market is taken away.

Secondly, the worldbuilding aspect is taken away, ifyou can't world build then there is little point in writing it. I find world building one of the most fun, and essential, parts of writing and without it I wouldn't have any enthusiasm for actually writing the story. 

Another fanfiction hate is when people write about the characters already created, another joy of writing is removed. I love character creation, I love to see my characters dance across the page, live and breathe and smile when he does things that I have added into his personality. That is not possible when fanfic writers use the author's characters.

There just seems to be no orginality in 99% of fanfiction, it has a half-baked plot, characters by the author that arn't written correctly and poor grammar. I have not read one that I like yet.

Beware of the fanfiction murderer!