marley_station

No, you're not neurotic. That's illiteracy.

I don't have a problem with original characters. I have written a few fanfics for the Naruto fandom and have inserted OC here and there to move the story along. They are never main characters. There are enough characters in Naruto for me to use that I don't feel any need to create a character to make it a focal point of a fanfic. Typically my OC are foreign and my humble, reverent nod to a culture or region of the world.

Gratuitous use (or, more to the point, mis-use) of the word 'rather' makes me want to beat something with a bat. Come on, folks, stretch your minds a bit. Fanfic writers who take themselves too seriously--we're not getting paid to write fanfiction. If you're a writer who's written some great fanfiction and have developed a fan base as a result, then congratulations. But don't get ahead of yourself. Your obnoxious attempts to extort more reviews from readers because you think that they think that you are the sun in their universe is just trifling. Just because you can write a great story does not mean that anyone owes you anything. If writing fanfiction is something you do to stoke your ego, then perhaps you need to consider changing the way you interact with your audience. Whoever said that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar wasn't just whistling Dixie.