J_Tyler It's not like all fanfics are bad and so on. There is one ranking for fanfics and originals. Mb fanfics have some originality in it but it's not original. Imagine yourself one test in school and you are doing everything by yourself and you get 5 points but the person next to you is cheating and gets 7 points. Both of you are judged by the same grading but you put all your sweat and blood into getting these points and the second person just cheated and got more points than you. How are you feeling?
Let's say you love "Naruto" world and you write fanfic in it. As a writer, you can predict that some part of Naruto fanbase will come and read your fanfic.
People that write originals don't have such easy start. Talking about what is easier. It's obvious that writing fanfic is easier. You need to meet their expectations for your fanfic. You cannot change their characters. That's a load of bullshit. The original writers don't need to meet expectations but the problem is that they need luck to actually have anyone read their stories. Original ranking spammed by trashy fanfics is taking their chance to get readers.
Another thing is that 70% of fanfics here is really low quality. So your chance was taken by a cheater and this cheater is really bad. How do you? I would be really angry you know :D

      KoraL lol.... its cause i have this rule when visiting wiki type sites with links hidden all over the place....

      and that rule is: if you are in the page that you are looking for..... then stay on that page

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          Hello! Just discovered this thread. I read fan fiction AND original writing. I also think that while fan fiction may be MUCH easier to write, well-written fan fiction is still very enjoyable! But yeah, I agree, they should either have a separate section or just not allow fan fiction. Why? Because I didn’t come here for fanfics. I came to webnovel because I wanted a xianxia/eastern fantasy story. If I wanted fantasy/litRPG, I would have gone to royal road legends. If I wanted fan fiction, I would have gone to fan fiction . net or archiveofourown. Also, if I’m in the original section, I’M NOT LOOKING FOR FAN FICTION. IT’S IN THE NAME. ORIGINAL. Yep.

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          Hello! Just discovered this thread. I read fan fiction AND original writing. I also think that while fan fiction may be MUCH easier to write, well-written fan fiction is still very enjoyable! But yeah, I agree, they should either have a separate section or just not allow fan fiction. Why? Because I didn’t come here for fanfics. I came to webnovel because I wanted a xianxia/eastern fantasy story. If I wanted fantasy/litRPG, I would have gone to royal road legends. If I wanted fan fiction, I would have gone to fan fiction . net or archiveofourown. Also, if I’m in the original section, I’M NOT LOOKING FOR FAN FICTION. IT’S IN THE NAME. ORIGINAL. Yep.

          Keep this thread alive!

            Hello! Just discovered this thread. I read fan fiction AND original writing. I also think that while fan fiction may be MUCH easier to write, well-written fan fiction is still very enjoyable! But yeah, I agree, they should either have a separate section or just not allow fan fiction. Why? Because I didn’t come here for fanfics. I came to webnovel because I wanted a xianxia/eastern fantasy story. If I wanted fantasy/litRPG, I would have gone to royal road legends. If I wanted fan fiction, I would have gone to fan fiction . net or archiveofourown. Also, if I’m in the original section, I’M NOT LOOKING FOR FAN FICTION. IT’S IN THE NAME. ORIGINAL. Yep.

            Keep this thread alive!

            Daoisthentai As long as it's marked fanfic, there's really nothing we can do. I understand where you're coming from, and I don't think WN should move all of the fanfictions to a different site, but maybe have two folders in the discover. One for original novels, one for fanfiction and the like. Personally, I don't read or write fanfiction because I think the original work is better, but I still don't think shoving fanfic writers away like they're a different species is going to solve a whole lot, either.

                SnakeWarrior123
                Don't do it. U might get attacked by an army of zombied fans of Naruto, dragonballs and fairy tails. That's too dangerous and u may also get banned. There are threads regarding spams. And in serious on the last part.

                    JunkieOverThe_Moon I fought with some of them. Most of these people are just brainless and it's waste of time. I think my dog is more intelligent than these people. I met some people with real opinions and I stopped doing these reviews after. "Do what you want...This is the WN you want...I am too tired to stop you." This world doesn't need heroes, this world needs monsters to do the right thing because heroes are too hypocritical to do anything right.

                      While I would agree with what you said. Originals do deserve their own categories but to say Fanfics are just run of the mill unoriginal work would really undermine what people write about.

                      I’m not supporting those who literally copy paste an original anime scene word to word with the exception of throwing their OC in the mix of it all. To further make it annoying some of them are reincarnated and they act all happy and chummy to fit in that specific worlds. That honestly makes me sick. If your OC is just gonna follow what the main character of the original anime would be what's the point. So yeah I support what you say.

                      But there are few very good Fanfics that are mostly AU. Sure they start of with same world but you could see a massive difference in characters their personalities and how the writer portrays it. Calling them unoriginal is a bit too much.

                      Just cause you have the same world does not mean you cannot make something original out of it. There are a million different ways things could in the same world affecting everything.

                      Just depends on what the writer is looking for. For me those who make everything look fine and Dandy about anime worlds and rinse and repeat the same plot over and over is where I draw the line

                        SnakeWarrior123
                        Yea, I hope they do. I will ve happy but its pretty bd and heartbreaking to see ur own hard work be undermined by some shit.
                        Yea, waiting is the only thing WR can do but WN is shit 💩 too. I don't think they will do anything unless they lose a HUGE percent of their revenue.

                            I'm thinking of making a fan fiction, but altering a lot of things. I'm currently drafting the story in my head, and so far I believe it could be decent.
                            To follow up on the original topic of the post, I agree somewhat, I do believe there should be some imagination put into a fanfic to make it interesting. However, I also think that BECAUSE it is a fanfic, it could also be fan service.
                            Depends on who is writing it and the effort put in.

                              At least those fan-fictions are saying what they are, they can be trash or good, but they are honest. However, some "Originals" don't even use that genre to describe themselves even when they are leeching a huge amount of content from another anime/manga/novel/movie/game. For example this thing:
                              https://www.webnovel.com/book/12608498505111905
                              Called Bloodborne, and yes, you get it, the game from From Software. The author shameless uses tons and tons of locations, personages, monsters and even situations a player can encounter but it is not fan fiction. No, it's an "Horror&Thriller". Yes, that would be the genre of this novel, if it wasn't totally copied on a quite known game. It's like I do a novel about Link in any Zelda game, let's take Twilight Princess. I write about the village, the transformation in wolf and my behavior in the game, the fact that I start by that temple and not that one. That I die against cuckoos because I didn't know about it, ect ect.
                              I already despise fan fictions quite a lot, mainly because most of them are the wet dreams of teenagers and end up in Harem that I hate but when I see the term fan-fictions, I don't even bother to read. But I am certain that I don't know every movie/book/game and I may begin to read a novel that is a blatant copy of another work not even deemed as a fan fiction just because the author didn't even respect the rule. If someone doesn't know BloodBorne, he can think that this author is talented.

                                I already said that i don't care about existence but fanfic authors will never understand how hard is it to create something from 0. NO FANBASE, NO WORLD NO CHARACTERS NOTHING...only your imagination and a lot of hard work. People try to argue about this and that...It's the same as popular author write the novel...some people will just read it because it's his work...

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