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Post by headlessvulture on Mar 9, 2021 21:32:01 GMT -5
I dabble in the occasional fanfic because I get an idea and think I might enjoy trying to bring it to life. I don't expect it to shake the literary world, but I probably had fun with it. Does it need to matter more than that?
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Post by themirrorthief on Mar 9, 2021 23:04:46 GMT -5
well its great to be a fan, to truly enjoy some created project...creating adventures for your fav characters is kinda self massaging but its cool too I had a while there where I truly felt REH had kinda taken over my mind and creative ability...I suppose some call it inspiration
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Post by themirrorthief on Jun 26, 2021 4:25:57 GMT -5
it dont
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Post by themirrorthief on Jun 26, 2021 4:28:49 GMT -5
one would b better served to write a crappy novel about the sex lives of depressed office workers or horny vampires
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Post by themirrorthief on Sept 17, 2022 20:43:34 GMT -5
my daughter buys audio books and plays them in the car...when I travel somewhere with her and listen I am astonished at how horrible these novels are the entire theme is always the quest for a sex partner with a weird name like antonius or bradforten or some such crap. My daugher gets mad when I start laughing. I know many would consider Howard and fantasy in general as lightweight...thats ok I read a lot of stuff Like camus, fowles, silverberg and the rest...sometimes I feel I could write a decent romance about a chick meeting her rich handsome dream dude that stuff kinda blows...sorry for the vent Im just unhappy with myself
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Post by alexander on Sept 18, 2022 5:04:20 GMT -5
my daughter buys audio books and plays them in the car...when I travel somewhere with her and listen I am astonished at how horrible these novels are the entire theme is always the quest for a sex partner with a weird name like antonius or bradforten or some such crap. My daugher gets mad when I start laughing. I know many would consider Howard and fantasy in general as lightweight...thats ok I read a lot of stuff Like camus, fowles, silverberg and the rest...sometimes I feel I could write a decent romance about a chick meeting her rich handsome dream dude that stuff kinda blows...sorry for the vent Im just unhappy with myself Many of the history novels I've read recently (well tried to read) were complete and utter rubbish. Boring to death, yet they sold well and got 4-5 stars on Amazon. In the meanwhile some of the best Solomon Kane pastiches I've read were fan fictions.
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Post by themirrorthief on Sept 19, 2022 0:12:29 GMT -5
Solomon Kane was a great creation...I enjoyed doing some pastiche about him. I thought the movie could have been slightly better tho. Still, I was shocked to see Kane get a movie and a large budget one at that.
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Post by mingerganthecat on Sept 20, 2022 7:02:25 GMT -5
As a reader, here are my fanfic Pros and cons: Pros: It's generally fun to read. It's free. It gives writers of all levels a chance to work with the characters and worlds they admire. It can be pretty imaginative and occasionally make you think of new things about a character or setting. Cons: None far as I can see. As a fanfic writer, I would say that the cons are that you're probably going to get what you pay for. I know full well that nothing I write would ever be publishable.
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Post by themirrorthief on Jan 10, 2023 18:37:56 GMT -5
As a reader, here are my fanfic Pros and cons: Pros: It's generally fun to read. It's free. It gives writers of all levels a chance to work with the characters and worlds they admire. It can be pretty imaginative and occasionally make you think of new things about a character or setting. Cons: None far as I can see. As a fanfic writer, I would say that the cons are that you're probably going to get what you pay for. I know full well that nothing I write would ever be publishable. I disagree I bought and paid good money for a book based on the Iliad....but when I started to read I realized it was just this woman's gay fantasies about the heroes of the story.....I was like wtf.....after achilles and patrocles kept making out I gave up after a few pages....really horrible stuff.....I dont know what to try to read anymore except all the classic pulp fiction you can find online
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