Geoffrey Ty wrote:

I'm considering several things when reading fanfics. Mostly its just
simply the efort someone put into it, you can always tell when someone
decided to just throw together a few ideas without really thinking about
it or putting forth any kind of real effort.

I consider what makes me write fanfic. I've always been a big 'what if?'
person, as I'm sure most of you are too. But what ismpires you to write
fanfics? About any series? Any genre`? For the sole purpose of
entertaining others?
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Writing for me is actually a kind of compulsion. My imagination has
always run at several times the clock speed of the rest of my brain, and
stuff tends to build up. I can't watch/read ANY story that interests me
without doing an immediate "what if" in my head. Left alone, these ideas
mutate, breed and generally start crowding out other stuff, until I have
no choice but to write them down.

Another problem I have is once I start writing a story, I can completely
lose control of it. I will run the story through my mind, and suddenly a
plot twist or event pops up that I never consciously considered or
intended, and once it does I CAN NEVER GET RID OF IT!!

And, of course, there is the massive ego trip I go on whenever someone C
& C's one of my fics ;p

The Prime Sagittarian,
Alpha Centauri

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is
that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness
that frightens us."

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