my wish list for fanfic writers

I love reading fanfic. Really, I do. And I love that people write it, because everyone should at least try to translate their imagination into words on paper (or screens). It takes a lot of guts to put your writing out there for others to read -- perhaps one percent of mine ever makes it that far.

As someone who writes professionally (albeit not fiction), I make an effort to be tolerant of less-than-perfect writing, because I think the most important thing is that you put it out there; after all, your writing won't improve much if you don't get outside opinions on it.

Still, sometimes I feel moved to make a list of stuff that gets on my nerves. Since nobody actually reads this lj, it won't do any good to post it, but I'm going to anyway. So there.

( herewith i present: )