Nah, don't be scared. Fan fiction is supposed to be fun. :D Practice is what it's all about. I still get nervous as hell about what I write, very nearly every time I write something and just the other day both of my betas told me I needed to take something out and fix it because it just was not working. And that's cool. That's why I love betas: because I would rather fix it before I show it to the whole internet and if something is "off" about a story I've written, I'd like to know.
I mean, a story is to some extent your personal view of the characters, their actions and storyline, but at the same time they should also be true to their own natures as established in canon. Heh. But then you could argue that almost all femslash that starts as subtext shouldn't be written, because it's not "true to the characters" as written.
Yeah, and I'd like to emphasize that I wasn't angry at the author. So far as I can tell the author is a perfectly fine person, it's just the fic that has me all in a bother. I happen to be very fond of the characters and their story and I didn't want to see them "ruined" in that way.
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Date: 2009-07-29 03:03 pm (UTC)I mean, a story is to some extent your personal view of the characters, their actions and storyline, but at the same time they should also be true to their own natures as established in canon. Heh. But then you could argue that almost all femslash that starts as subtext shouldn't be written, because it's not "true to the characters" as written.
Yeah, and I'd like to emphasize that I wasn't angry at the author. So far as I can tell the author is a perfectly fine person, it's just the fic that has me all in a bother. I happen to be very fond of the characters and their story and I didn't want to see them "ruined" in that way.