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fandom-hoard · 9 months ago

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Is it just me or is there a trend of more and more "poorly written" fics?

I don't mean "poorly written" as in the story being bad or not engaging, I just mean that it'd get a bad grade in school because it doesn't have correct capitalization/punctuation/formatting/ect.

But fanfiction is NOT written for a grade, so authors can write however they want. Just, can anyone tell me if they think fanfiction getting more casual is a trend that's going to keep increasing?

I'm not against reading fic like this it's just that I find it very very distracting and tiring to try and read, but I don't want to miss out on good fics because I grew up with some elitist idea of what writing should look like or something.

#it's just stuff like #fics with no capitalization for example #or no paragraph breaks between paragraphs so it's just a huge bunch of text #Or not starting a new line when a new person starts talking #or missing punctuation and you're just supposed to intuit sentence flow ig #I'm seeing these all the time so there must be an audience #but just like #is this just the new writing style of young people and it'll be sticking around?#because I don't wanna miss out on good fics because I'm not used to the style #But at the same time- to my 32yo brain- reading a sentence of a written work with no capitalization or punctuation just reads like #the author doesn't understand the difference between texting and storytelling #which is jerky i know #But if it's like- the new style to tell stories through a more 'text message' casual style of writing #I need to get used to it and work on not scrolling passed automatically or immediately feeling dismissive towards it #if that makes sense #batfam #batman #andreil #aftg #those are the fandoms I've been in lately #And this is not directed at any specific fic or any fics specifically #fanfiction #fandom

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