Sure there is. I still have some of them saved in my files - because while most of the stuff was harsh criticism...there was some worthwhile information given in some of them. I won't say who posted what...but I can leave it open for debate. Believe me, I don't want to get this started again, and yes HC...we have emailed privately and I appreciate it a lot. I have also emailed with one of the others (maybe both, I'm not sure because of the different user names). I guess I just want you guys to understand that you really hurt my feelings and I think that's why SP made this post (and of course I'm not mad at you SP!):
1)You know what? At first, when you started posting here, I liked you. Now, however....
I know, I know, you asked for constructive critisism, I'll try...
>.Please don't continue to the story if you don't enjoy reading fics that are written purely for fun and without regard to sticking to canon or characterization. Warning: Somewhat AU and very OCC (especially BJ in later sections) - please don’t read if you don’t like that kind of thing.,<
Now, I'm not even sure I can be constructive about this. Serious writers strive to avoid OOC-ness. That's the point of fanfic. Fanfic. We are fans
wikipedia.org: The word fan refers to someone who has an intense, occasionally overwhelming liking of a person, group of persons, work of art, idea, or trend.
We like, heck, even love this show (and the movie and the books)!! Loving it means striving to avoid OOC-ness, striving to make characterization good, and striving to stick as much as possible to canon, the promoted pairings excepted. You can't just disregard that. If the only thing your characters have in common with the M*A*S*H characters, is that they are in Korea, you could just as well write original fiction and place the characters in Korea, if that is at all vital to your story. If you don't strive to make the characterisation spot-on, what's the point in writing about characters that already exist?
Let me make one thing very, very clear. No one likes characters that are OOC (except for you and some of you newbie friends, apparently). Why not try to make them in character instead? Then maybe someone besides newbies would be bothered to read it. The way it is now, it sounds like you're somehow proud that the characters in your fic are OOC.
You say you write this for fun. Well, sorry, that doesn't help. Why you don't care about canon and characterisation, I don't know. But I think you should. The rest of us do. Because we are fans. Because we love M*A*S*H. And because we understand the initial concept, the essence, of fanfic; creating stories that are in symbiosis and in "understanding" (for lack of a better word) with the show, the movie, the book, in short: the work of art, that we know and love, no matter what it may be.
I'm sorry if I've come across as harsh, but what you wrote in the headers really, really pisses me off. I don't see how you can really be a fan, and still talk like that. If this really is your attitude towards the fic you write, I know I won't read another word you write.
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1)You know what? At first, when you started posting here, I liked you. Now, however....
I know, I know, you asked for constructive critisism, I'll try...
>.Please don't continue to the story if you don't enjoy reading fics that are written purely for fun and without regard to sticking to canon or characterization. Warning: Somewhat AU and very OCC (especially BJ in later sections) - please don’t read if you don’t like that kind of thing.,<
Now, I'm not even sure I can be constructive about this.
Serious writers strive to avoid OOC-ness. That's the point of fanfic. Fanfic. We are fans
wikipedia.org: The word fan refers to someone who has an intense, occasionally overwhelming liking of a person, group of persons, work of art, idea, or trend.
We like, heck, even love this show (and the movie and the books)!! Loving it means striving to avoid OOC-ness, striving to make characterization good, and striving to stick as much as possible to canon, the promoted pairings excepted. You can't just disregard that. If the only thing your characters have in common with the M*A*S*H characters, is that they are in Korea, you could just as well write original fiction and place the characters in Korea, if that is at all vital to your story. If you don't strive to make the characterisation spot-on, what's the point in writing about characters that already exist?
Let me make one thing very, very clear. No one likes characters that are OOC (except for you and some of you newbie friends, apparently). Why not try to make them in character instead? Then maybe someone besides newbies would be bothered to read it. The way it is now, it sounds like you're somehow proud that the characters in your fic are OOC.
You say you write this for fun. Well, sorry, that doesn't help. Why you don't care about canon and characterisation, I don't know. But I think you should. The rest of us do. Because we are fans. Because we love M*A*S*H. And because we understand the initial concept, the essence, of fanfic; creating stories that are in symbiosis and in "understanding" (for lack of a better word) with the show, the movie, the book, in short: the work of art, that we know and love, no matter what it may be.
I'm sorry if I've come across as harsh, but what you wrote in the headers really, really pisses me off. I don't see how you can really be a fan, and still talk like that. If this really is your attitude towards the fic you write, I know I won't read another word you write.
~continued next post~