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Unbridled9 posted...

Anyways. On topic. The 13 is more cringy. Ignoring that a 31 year old has had time to, hopefully, practice their writing skill the fact is a 13 YO has a very... bad... idea of what constitutes 'good' writing. It's the kind of thing that results in edgelords who think darkness and evil are cool and that being 'misunderstood' is a rare thing that's never been done before and that their OC, who is pretty much just a petulant child lashing out in all directions and being evul because evuls is kewl but is really a good character at the end of the day and NOT something that's been seen six-billion times. The 31 YO stuff tends to just be some adult who wanted a cheesy schlock fest and, well, it might be cringy but not only is it usually at least slightly better written but it was never going to not be cringy. Looking at someone's personal pleasure piece and finding it to be little more than a personal pleasure piece is not shocking.

While the 13 y/o's writing is probably more cringey, the fact that a 31 y/o is doing it would be more cringey. The 13 y/o doesn't know any better, but the 31 y/o should.

Unit7 posted...

I find most fan fiction depressing and the well written stuff thats damn near 100% original even more so. Its not a terrible way to practice writing, but I often wonder what if they had put that same energy and creativity into something new and original.

This so hard. Then again, some fan fiction idiots have managed to con companies into letting them license/publish the story, so it's not always a fruitless effort depending on the franchise.

Revelation34 posted...

A 13 year old doesn't know what they are doing. A 31 year old fanfiction writer clearly doesn't know what they are doing since they are writing fanfiction.

Kek.


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