What erks you in fandom???

[WithMe92]

I get that going back and forth in time is a valid way to tell a story, and sometimes it makes the story better, more interesting. But really, some authors just abuse of this resource or they don't have competence to use it. I think the fact that we read FF in chapters, and that sometimes there's such a long wait between chapters makes it more difficult for readers to remember what's happening on the story. Right now I'm reading a story that I just don't know what happened when. I'm totally confused, and that's a pitty, since I think the theme of the story is interesting, even if Bella really drives me mad sometimes.

This! It annoys me the most when only one of the timelines is interesting and it keeps getting interrupted. Or instead of trying to move the story along the author is so cryptic with one of the timelines that the story basically goes in circles.

[jujubakiller]

This is not about the fandom... but, don't you hate when you hate a story, you find so many things to hate on it, but you can't stop reading it? I just spent my whole day with a story like this! And I kept thinking that I should stop reading it, but I just couldn't!!

[alexajaye]

Oh, yeah. I read 16 chapters of a story that I progressively hated more as the chapters kept coming, hoping it would get better. When I bailed, it was still sucking, but everyone who was reviewing it loved it and thought it showed real life. I disagreed completely, because it was too extreme to be real.

[jujubakiller]

Oh, yeah. I read 16 chapters of a story that I progressively hated more as the chapters kept coming, hoping it would get better. When I bailed, it was still sucking, but everyone who was reviewing it loved it and thought it showed real life. I disagreed completely, because it was too extreme to be real.

The story I was reading was well written, but there was SO MUCH DRAMA! Also, lots of cliches and teenager drama all around. But for some reason I couldn't stop.

[alexajaye]

When I read a story, there has to be more than just good writing. Just because the writing is good, it doesn't mean the story is good.

I'm not a big fan of drama, so when there starts to be too much, I pretty much say "see ya!" If after a few chapters it stops, then I try to give the author a chance to clean things up, but some authors don't know when that is, so they pile it on until their protagonist hits rock bottom to turn on the "up" switch that says everything is about to start picking up.

It's a bad thing to say, but sometimes, I don't have that kind of patience, especially when rock bottom is a pretty damn low point for anyone to go through. As the saying goes, there's only so much one person can take before they snap. I guess that's my limit.

I try to uphold this in my stories to a point, but sometimes, I don't do so good, and I have to reign it in. I've read many a story where the person writing it didn't know how to do that. I think it should be the first lesson in writing.

When to know when you've taken it too far.

[jujubakiller]

When I read a story, there has to be more than just good writing. Just because the writing is good, it doesn't mean the story is good.

I'm not a big fan of drama, so when there starts to be too much, I pretty much say "see ya!" If after a few chapters it stops, then I try to give the author a chance to clean things up, but some authors don't know when that is, so they pile it on until their protagonist hits rock bottom to turn on the "up" switch that says everything is about to start picking up.

It's a bad thing to say, but sometimes, I don't have that kind of patience, especially when rock bottom is a pretty damn low point for anyone to go through. As the saying goes, there's only so much one person can take before they snap. I guess that's my limit.

I try to uphold this in my stories to a point, but sometimes, I don't do so good, and I have to reign it in. I've read many a story where the person writing it didn't know how to do that. I think it should be the first lesson in writing.

When to know when you've taken it too far.

That's exactly it! Many authors go too far. I think it's like watching a car wreck, it's awfull, but you can't take you eyes of it.

[alexajaye]

I know! And I'm having to train my brain to look away. I'm learning.

[jujubakiller]

I know! And I'm having to train my brain to look away. I'm learning.

I'm learning too. But sometimes I still get caught up in a car wreck type of fic.

[alexajaye]

True. Very true. They should have a support group for people who've read bad fan fiction. I'm sure the attendance would be off the scale!

[jujubakiller]

Really, why say Bella or Edward have children if there's no pint to it? Right now I'm reading a story, I'm just finishing chapter 4, and so far, Bella's kid has been mentioned at least once every chapter, but he hasn't shown up even once, and, Bella is always out, doing this an that, during the day and even during the night. Really, where does her kid go to, an alternate universe where another Bella takes care of him? And this would be pretty easy to solve, if the author took out the kid from the story, nothing would be missed at all.