Current mood:

grateful

You killed fanfiction, you bastards - we report you!
While we've been drowning in the bile wank that is FanFic_Hate, another livejournal community slipped by us.

Enter BadWritters. They take the hate one step further, they just don't trash the bad fic, they report the bad fic!

Yes, they email fanfiction.net and report TOS violations (grammar, author's notes in the stories) and get the stories booted off ff.net! They are the fiction police of the Internet!

They seem to be quite pleased with themselves here in getting rid of the dreck off of ff.net.

The rules for the community are:

This community is for people who are against bad writing and bad characterisation in fan fiction. It's not, specifically, anti-bad grammar (although that comes into it); nor is it specifically anti-mary-sue (though heaven knows it'll feature a few!).

If it's bad, this is the place for it. Post snippets of the badness or otherwise direct our attention to the worst offenders and let's see if we can rid fanfiction.net of at least some of the stuff that earns the site its reputation.

If, by chance, you recognise errors, or you find that it's your story that's being thoroughly shredded, maybe it's time you rethink your writing.

A word about ratings, slash, character bashing and 'ships:
-All ratings up to and including R are welcome for discussion and snippet posting. If it's bad NC-17...well it shouldn't be up at ff.net in the first place ;)
-Slash is welcome (given the explosion of slash writing - and bad slash writing at that - it's just as well!).
-If the fic character bashes, it's automatically a candidate for this journal, even if it's perfectly spelt/punctuated has good grammar, because if there's a character being bashed, that character is probably out of character, or if they're not, those around them probably are!
-As for 'ships, the only rule is you can't define a story as being bad just for the relationship it portrays. Of course, if that 'ship is mis-spelled, badly punctuated and bashes a third party, bring it on!

Long live the Grammar Nazis!