So, two chapters on the same day, to make up for not posting for 10 months.

I was thinking of how it feels to be a small author with very few, and indeed precious, followers here on Wattpad. Of course I never take you guys for granted, and I never will, even if someday in the future I have lots of followers. Some people with lots of followers all seem to have something in common; they write fan fiction.

Fan fiction gets a bad reputation, mostly because of how its treated. I think fan fiction should be about fans of particular fandoms wanting to add or continue on stories. Which is what I do, (https://www.wattpad.com/story/107967148-minecraft-story-mode-episode-9-after-adventures) and will continue on doing.
Unfortunately, the fans writing for their 'fan fiction' have taken a wrong direction.
They began a non-stopping trend among fans what is known as shipping (this chapter has unintentionally become way too serious ^^').
Shipping, is when a fan fiction writer decides to make two characters from a certain franchise love each other through the use of internet and places like Wattpad.
It's okay, up to here. Shipping is fine, it's natural.
Let me explain.
Remember when you used to watch an animated TV show when you were very little, and there was two main characters, a boy and a girl. Then you would probably think that they would like each other. This has been there for your whole life and you didn't even notice it. Then when you write fanfics, this feeling of shipping comes into play and for some fans, takes control of you.
Then fans take this to another level. They make the most unlikely ship. For example, in lots of <Harry Potter> fanfics (which I haven't read but heard of through a fanfic hater on YouTube), apparently there is a Hermione and Draco Malfoy ship.
There are certain problems with this.
Firstly, the writer was obviously not aiming for story continuity. This is because (SPOILERS) at the end of the <Harry Potter> series, Hermione and Draco Malfoy do not get together. This is because Hermione marries Ron and Draco marries Astoria Greengrass (don't worry, I had to look it up). Here the author has changed the plot to make this fanfic work. It isn't too big a problem, but personally, I wouldn't have made this choice because I like my fanfics as close to canon (the real thing. The official product) as possible.

Secondly, the two characters dislike each other very much. They never once had liked each other and the author J.K. Rowling never made hints of love in writing, because that's what proper, official writers usually do in their writing. In books they make subtle hints about something that they want the reader to know. This is the same for movies or TV shows. The camera makes close ups to a person's face or cuts of camera to give hints. And like I said about the canon thing, this is very much false, and an obvious big problem.

The next problem I have is unrelated to the Hermione X Draco ship, but is very common among fanfics. If you haven't noticed yet, all around the internet are bisexual/homosexual ships of fandoms. And it would be okay if the character was gay from the first place or their sexuality hadn't been revealed. But ships like Harry X Draco ship and etc. personally make me very uncomfortable.

Some other uncommon things I've found is that writers put themselves into their stories and that's fine, except they don't put in either their real name, which some people might not be comfortable sharing, or a fake name for themselves, but put in their Wattpad username. This one really baffles me quite a lot. I've seen this in some sort of <Minecraft Story Mode> fanfic (no, it isn't mine), where they had the characters meet a new person who's name was something like 'xX_Awesome_Dude_Xx' or something like that, I can't remember. I mean... don't do this... it's just embarrassing for all of us.

Lastly, fanfic authors usually make their stories highly sexual, however the original and canon story being not. For the Hermione and Draco ship, authors like to make their writing so deeply intense and sexual, that it would be advised for readers only 18+, and even almost considered as a porn novel. Personally, I think this is very wrong and if the original was this intense, for example, Game of Thrones (I've never seen a single episode, only heard that it has intense sex scenes), then it might have made sense. For <Harry Potter>? Never would have been real.

To sum it all up, fanfics shouldn't be all disturbing and completely wrong. I get that there are people out there who wants to be creative, but unfortunately those people are the majority on Wattpad, and those of you (you know who you are and you know that you are guilty! >:( ) who do these things, please try and tune it down a little, you're giving the rest of us and fan fiction itself a bad reputation.

Glowing regards,
Supercom6000.

(Wow what a rant! I didn't intend to write this much :O)

On another note, what's the deal with Wattpad coins?!?! You have to buy to read books now? Can you just do that? Paid books? For the foreseeable future, I will NOT be making paid books. And I don't think there will come a time when I'm extremely desperate for money and need it by people reading my fanfics on Wattpad.

So I had a read at the Wattpad paid stories website and apparently you get invited by the Wattpad team to have your stories be paid. Well if it's an invitation, then I'll decline. I don't really like that stuff anyway, being a small author.

You can learn more about it here: https://www.wattpad.com/paidstories/