While there is a slot in fandom writing for those who wish to stick to canon rigidly, most people write to expand on canon, or to trash canon entirely with their own ideas.
In which case it could be a AU fic. I'm talking about names, or dates - like saying in HP fandom that McG is 56 instead of 70-something. Or people who can't have been in the same class because one's eight years older than the other. Or oh, Regulus wasn't Sirius's long lost son, it was his brother, and they're not twins - Regulus is one or two years younger. The kind of thing that they created HP_Lexicon for.
...And good spelling and grammar a good fanfic maketh not. While it helps from a reading standpoint, there are some downright awful fics with perfect grammar too.
I probably didn't make myself very clear - I didn't mean that bad grammar = bad fanfic or vice versa, I meant, if you've a great fanfic, and the people who rate it all agree that it's a great fanfic, the least we (as in, people in a particular committee) could do is beta and nitpick it for them. Exclusionism makes my eyes bleed, but so does bad grammar, and so does bad fanfic.
I don't think it's narrow-minded. Everyone's allowed to post, aren't they? And people are going to find a way to rate things, because we're all sick of Fanfiction.net where good fics are so bloody hard to find - why not get the stories people consider extra good and amazing and outstanding a chance to really stand out? Why should Cassie Claire's Draconian Trilogy get all the attention while Elizabeth Barr's There Is No Such Place is just as good or even better? Not every good story becomes famous and not every good fanfiction writer becomes a BNF. Writing requires practice. I do think people should learn that even if they've talent in something, it doesn't mean that they're above trying to improve.
Um. I'm not sure if that came out the way I meant/wanted it.
Re: Quality control & Locking adult content
In which case it could be a AU fic. I'm talking about names, or dates - like saying in HP fandom that McG is 56 instead of 70-something. Or people who can't have been in the same class because one's eight years older than the other. Or oh, Regulus wasn't Sirius's long lost son, it was his brother, and they're not twins - Regulus is one or two years younger. The kind of thing that they created HP_Lexicon for.
...And good spelling and grammar a good fanfic maketh not. While it helps from a reading standpoint, there are some downright awful fics with perfect grammar too.
I probably didn't make myself very clear - I didn't mean that bad grammar = bad fanfic or vice versa, I meant, if you've a great fanfic, and the people who rate it all agree that it's a great fanfic, the least we (as in, people in a particular committee) could do is beta and nitpick it for them. Exclusionism makes my eyes bleed, but so does bad grammar, and so does bad fanfic.
I don't think it's narrow-minded. Everyone's allowed to post, aren't they? And people are going to find a way to rate things, because we're all sick of Fanfiction.net where good fics are so bloody hard to find - why not get the stories people consider extra good and amazing and outstanding a chance to really stand out? Why should Cassie Claire's Draconian Trilogy get all the attention while Elizabeth Barr's There Is No Such Place is just as good or even better? Not every good story becomes famous and not every good fanfiction writer becomes a BNF. Writing requires practice. I do think people should learn that even if they've talent in something, it doesn't mean that they're above trying to improve.
Um. I'm not sure if that came out the way I meant/wanted it.