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will be portrayed as OOC, and a story with these types of character may be
very well successful – managing to either create a new fanon or fall into an
existing one – or may be badly received by other fans. Dinah’s standards are
set very high as she believes these types of stories should not happen if the
writer wants to be taken seriously. The problem, for her, lies in the motivation
of gaining a large readership; and whether or not this motivation exists is a
moot point for Dinah:
The thing is, you can write for yourself and that’s fine, but
if you post it anywhere, even if you say you write for
yourself, you’re writing for an audience. Once you do that,
you have to see that you’re not just writing for your own
expectations but for others’ expectations. You can’t claim
you’re writing for yourself.
Writing fanfic is anything but simple for her, as this issue creates an
inner conflict within the author; though fanfiction is “writing for wishfulfillment,”
the personal wish-fulfillment may frequently be at odds with
either canon or fanon. Though an author may dream up a story for herself that
is immensely satisfying but OOC and off-canon, and this story may be
perfectly legit, at the same time there is another group of authors who write
for wish-fulfillment but within the structured realm. Inasmuch as Dinah was
referring to canon as the structured realm, the same thing applies equally to
fanon: a story which resists both structures, and at the same time the various
wish-fulfillments of the communities who use these structures, can only be
successful if the writing quality is superb. Once it has been accepted as a
successful and good fanfic by other fans, it will often be recommended as an
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