User blog comment:James12708/People's Fantasies make the worst stories./@comment-4237253-20121119033920/@comment-4807396-20121122063352

The problem is that most fanfic writers aren't good writers, and they have no idea how to capture the IP they try to emulate. Mary Sue self-inserts, OCs that add nothing to the story, exaggerating the positive traits of characters the author likes, demonising characters the author doesn't like, rewriting any aspect of canon the author dislikes under the pretense of an AU, smut that only demonstrates the author's elementary knowledge of sex... the list of badfic pitfalls goes on and on. Sure, good ones do exist, but they're the exception, not the rule.