You know what's really scary? How many good reviews this piece of chozzerai got on Amazon. I mean, really? Are people's standards that low?
@daemon First paragraph. Done. I remember why I stopped reading and writing fanfiction, lol. The worst part of it isn't how... amateurish it is but the actual words themselves. Goth, Amy Lee, Gerard Way, Hot Topic (It's not a goth store.. it's a mainstream cash cow) and UUGHH!!! Friggin' teeny-bopper overload. I know how sad those things are because I used to be part of that crowd! Best. Chapter. Ending. Ever!
I want to know where we can read all the "flamming" comments calling the author's dubious heroine a "Marie Su." "im nut updating umtil I get five good revoiws!"
Yeah, it is somewhat terrifying, but since throngs of people got into Twilight, I have to say that I'm not the least bit surprised at this.
I read it when it was on FanFiction.Net, and it had them heading each chapter. Some of the comments in them where comedic gold - I hope. 'Fangs (gettit? because I'm gothic) for the editing, Ellie Goffik!11! Ive been to Hot Topick this week!' In fact, I know that MrCreepyPasta, on YouTube, reads the story including these pre-chapter comments. He has to stop at times due to laughing.
It is The Eye of Argon of fanfiction! Oh god, the music in the background of that reading is perfect.
Lord. We should try that on the Workshop. "Im not updayting till u gibs mii five gud rebews!!@! Taht r a promiss!!"
After eight edits, twelve beta readers and a punch in the kidneys for good measure via formatting, I self published my novel and very proud of it. I could never send off something like what I read from the three books mentioned in this thread. There has to be some level of pride. My stories are my children and sending them off without a weapon to fight is bad parenting. People can say they don't like them, but they can't say they were badly written.
I think the scary point of that book is that she probably does consider it well written and finished. Delusion is a strange beast.
These days it's easy to get published. But a writer's job doesn't end when the book gets published. It has to be promoted like crazy. And if it's not a good book, promotion just causes the fact that it's horrible to be discovered faster. Once your reputation is shot, it's very hard to get it back.
Maybe i should take a photo of one of my stories i wrote in the fifth grade and compare it to the book and see which one is actually worse- i'm pretty confident it's still better than this rubbish. Now i feel much better as a writer- knowing that such atrocities like these exist. I think someone has surpassed Stephanie Meyer and EL James as the worst author ever...
Dude, I've read Atlas Shrugged ten times, and you are far more obsessed with Ayn Rand than I am. You just don't seem to be able to stop ragging on her. Is she your personal demon? Does she haunt your dreams? Does she piss in your porridge? It's just weird how much you hate her. Honestly, I don't think I've ever seen anyone with such a "I was put on this earth to shit on Ayn Rand" kind of mindset. Okay, you hate her. We get it. Most of the rest of us don't like her, too. But the rest of us don't make it a personal crusade to rag on her in almost every post! You're doing a master's degree. Don't you have better things to think about? All said in friendship, of course.
This reminds me of how I used to write... when I was in the third grade, minus all the exclamation points.
