To Write Dominion "Derived Fiction" and not Fanfiction

[Sombre]

Originally Posted by raven013

I have to disagree with your claim that all fanfiction is terrible, thats just being biased. If you look at fanfiction.net, you'd be surprised to see a lot of good stuff and literature.

Given that you write fanfiction, that doesn't surprise me.

I don't see how you can call me biased. Every piece of fan fiction I have come across is terrible. Fan fiction is widely regarded as being terrible by people whose opinions I respect. If making any experiential subjective judgement equates to biased, well gee, we're all biased.

Thanks for the plug of fanfiction.net but 'you'd be surprised by the quality of some stuff' from a stranger doesn't really sell it to me.

[raven013]

Originally Posted by Sombre

Given that you write fanfiction, that doesn't surprise me.

I don't see how you can call me biased. Every piece of fan fiction I have come across is terrible. Fan fiction is widely regarded as being terrible by people whose opinions I respect. If making any experiential subjective judgement equates to biased, well gee, we're all biased.

Thanks for the plug of fanfiction.net but 'you'd be surprised by the quality of some stuff' from a stranger doesn't really sell it to me.

Hmmm, perhaps biased was not the word I wanted to say. Yes we could all be branded as biased if given the situation you just mentioned. My point is, to call and brand all fanfiction as terrible doesn't seem to be right.

Well anyways thanks for telling me your opinion here sombre. Every person's opinion is always necessary whether one is writing a fanfic or a novel. I do appreciate it. ^_^

Btw, I've searched the forum and I was able to find this.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showt...ght=fanfiction

This is a thread that discusses about the history of dominions and this is exactly what I had in mind. To tell the tales of people in the dom3-verse in a manner that may be in a form of historical fact or passed on Legends...

@ GregStorm

Wow...

That genre never entered my mind ahahahahahaha...

Anyways thanks for telling me greg and I assure you, that would never happened.

Although there are the female amazons.... hehehehehe

[Gandalf Parker]

Keep going Raven013!

Personally I cant help but fiction this game as Im playing it. Im more RPGer than PvPer. Some of the AARs here are close to FanFiction. Ive always been all for it. Ive even pressed for some to consider publishing. Id particularly like to see something that lays out the games actions, and then presents it in story form. Kindofa combination fiction and tutorial.

IN VERY GENERAL TERMS...
Part of what you will run into is that the RPGers seem to tend towards solo play. The huge sales, and traffic on other forums, seems to say there are many of them out there but they rarely have a reason to create a login and haunt this forum. While the MPers do in order to easier create and join MP games. Some people tend to be more a fan of the games mechanics (Johans excellent work) and others more toward the games fiction (Kristoffers learned contributions). Reading thru posts here you can easily get an impression of who is who. Particularly when they discuss the reasons for their choices of pretenders.

As for fanfiction in general, there isnt really an argument here. Everyones opinion seems equally true. FanFiction is yet another example of the growth of CrowdSourcing on the Internet (which I make my living off of). FanFiction, YouTube, CafePress, WikiPedia, theFUMP, Google, or for that matter forums like this. They tend to be great examples of the Pareto Principle. Mostly crap. But that doesnt mean it should stop. We cant find the good 20% without wading thru the 80%.

Edit: @theJeff thanks for Sturgeon's Law. Pareto is more in the business/marketing world but I will keep SL in my toolbox for some uses.

Any writer, artist, musician, programmer, cartoonist, developer who wants to take their work to another level feel free to contact me privately.


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[Foodstamp]

Originally Posted by Sombre

Given that you write fanfiction, that doesn't surprise me.

I don't see how you can call me biased. Every piece of fan fiction I have come across is terrible. Fan fiction is widely regarded as being terrible by people whose opinions I respect. If making any experiential subjective judgement equates to biased, well gee, we're all biased.

Thanks for the plug of fanfiction.net but 'you'd be surprised by the quality of some stuff' from a stranger doesn't really sell it to me.

Holy crap isn't this the definition of "biased" or did I miss the sarcasm?

Hey OP, good luck to you. I tend to think a good story has more to do with the author than the genre.