Uggghhh! FanFiction!

So I'm working on two stories at the moment, both are fan fictions. One is Star Trek the other is Law and Order:SVU. I am absolutely stuck on the Star Trek story after 11 chapters, I feel like I've written myself into a corner, I have no idea where to go next or how it's gonna end or where they hell I was going with it in the first place, and I have the first chapter of the Law and Order story written in my notebook but Haven't typed it into the computer yet.


What I hate about fan fictions is your audience can be such a cruel bunch they practically make the art of fan fiction a damn blood sport. Create just one original character and they cry "Mary Sue", fail to include a scene where two of the main characters "get it on" and they say it's too dull, write something that may be slightly out of character for someone because you didn't take the time to watch every single frame of the show and the flame you, i.e. "he wouldn't do that, remember episode such and such where he told so and so he would never do that? How dare you write such a thing!", create an original character that does "get it on" with a main character and again they cry "Mary Sue." I'd like to find the person who coined that phrase and put duct tape over their mouth. The truth is ALL fanfic characters are Mary Sue's. Whether they are original or the author is living vicariously through the main characters.

For those who don't know, a "mary sue" character is basically the author who puts themselves into a fanfic as an original character just to see what it would be like to interract with the main characters. It got started, like so many other things, in the world of Star Trek. I tell ya, in the star trek fanfic world, Spock gets his freak on in every story faster than you can say "pon far." So to an extent I can understand the distain over such a character but pleaassse some of you have to lighten up. The point is to enjoy writing. It's not like we're getting paid for it. Write a Mary Sue, write a fully developed character, write that spock ran all over the enterprise wearing nothing but his pointed ears but HAVE FUN!!! It's your story. Sheesh!!
Ok, end of rant.

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