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Cenobite829

Topic: THE TRUTH ABOUT BASHING

I hate to break it to everyone but the more I think about this the more I believe it to be true: We need bashers. Hate them, loathe them, wish they didn't excist, but lord help me we need them. Bashers say you can't write a good Tommy/Kat story because Kat is a awful character. So do to your love of the characters you set out to prove them wrong. You write a beautiful story to prove them wrong. You push yourself as hard as you can and end up with a masterpiece. Just think about how many stories you wrote not just for your love of the character but also to shut someone up you didn't agree with. You may think I am dead wrong but if you think about it you may just be suprised.

#1 Sep 10th 2007, 12:42pm

zeopurple

I might be the exception to that because as much as I hate bashers I don't write my pics to prove anything. I write them because I get an idea in my head and usually when I write I'm aim at readers who I know will appreciate the story and the characters. All others (especially bashers) I prefer don't read my stuff at all if they are not going to like the subject because I don't want to get into an argument with them.

But you're entitled to your opinion, for me I'll never understand bashing.

#2 Sep 10th 2007, 2:12pm

moonlite-n-roses

I don't write to prove a point to somebody. I write because I have a story idea that I want to turn into an amazing story. I never think about the bashers when I write my own stories. If it ever got to the point that I was writing just to prove a point to people who wouldn't understand it anyway, I'll probably hang up my writing hat.

But as Zeo said, to each their own...

#3 Sep 10th 2007, 2:30pm

Cenobite829

Well maybe I inapproperatly put my words but you do half to admit that a few good stories might have come out of a person telling someone they couldn't write them. I don't know maybe it is just me but if someone bashes my work or says that I shouldn't or can't do what I am planning I see it as a challenge. Maybe I am just to competative.

#4 Sep 10th 2007, 3:23pm

moonlite-n-roses

When I first started writing fanfic, I was very competative. I wanted to get stories out and done before other authors... and if somebody said somethign bad about my work, I just had to do something to prove them wrong. I was very headstrong and stubborn... but the longer I was writing the more I realized, 'What the hell am I doing?' I sorta went through a 'Why am I writing?' stage that lasted WAY to long. I got over it and I decided that I'm writing because I love the characters, and thats all that matters as long as I stay within the so called boundaries of characterization and personality.

#5 Sep 10th 2007, 3:33pm

Cenobite829

See I think I am still in that "Why am I writing here?" phase. You see I am trying to sell a comic idea to Dark Horse Comics and I devote all my time to that right now but I will get my act together eventually.

#6 Sep 10th 2007, 3:46pm

moonlite-n-roses

That's important though, and completely cool... :D

#7 Sep 10th 2007, 3:55pm

Purple Strobe

Ha! Well I wrote one Tommy/Kim fic cuz my friend didn't think I would ever be able to write a decent fic with them together cuz I didn't like them together after high school. It bombed and I pretty much knew it would cuz I didn't put my heart and soul into it because it was a challenge from her. Now, Already Gone was written for the simple fact that I was so tired of reading 'I hate Kat and you should hate her too' comments left all around fan fiction so I wrote it to give them a little sour taste in their lips and tongues to shut them up for atleast a half hour. So yeah, that one was written out of spite and not to prove bashers wrong but to pretty much hurt them. (Mission: Accomplished)

#8 Nov 04th 2007, 11:58pm

MegaSilver

I tend to agree, and even if a character was poorly written, a good writer can often reveal new aspects of the same person and give him at least one or two sympathetic notes.

Not that Katherine's a bad character; in fact, it seems to me that very few decent MMPR writers out there HAVEN'T written a Katherine story. I can't say I've ever disliked her, though I was a bit upset when she replaced Kimberly (with whom I am still in love) and I was never taken to the Tommy/Katherine pairing. I think at the time it felt like they were writing Kimberly out of the MMPR universe forever--and also, I really felt bad for Tommy to have to lose her!

In retrospect, though, I don't think Tommy and Katherine weren't a good pairing, but they were not written very well together. Katherine showed a lot of depth and richness of character in MMPR that was only partially developed in PRZ and almost as soon as we found out she and Tommy were getting married she became helpless whenever he was around. That wasn't what I would have expected from her.

After years of writing, scrapping and rewriting the MMPR universe to return Kimberly to Tommy (and sometimes to the Power Team), I finally wrote a story that accepted the letter and moved on (though, ironically, it was an alternate ending to TNBLSB). It was a good exercise, too: I got to make a Ranger adapt to a new civilian environment outside California and threw in a bit of personal ethnic pride to boot...

#9 Feb 03rd 2008, 11:12am

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