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How do you make a terrible fanfic into a good one?
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ithmarvin's post in the GAFF LJ community... which most of you couldn't see because you (probably) need to be a community member. So. Reposted here. All text following is not mine own.)
The answer is deceptively simple: Make a movie out of it!
Before you break that camera out and run to Hobby Lobby to make some wizard robes, be advised that going that route will not work and is in fact the exact opposite of making a bad fanfic good. A good way to do it is to run the fanfic through a voice synthesizer. That's a very good start, but that does not make a movie. There's a bunch of graphics you have to worry about, but I'm sure that your vision of the fanfic can be emulated perfectly through Photoshop and MS Paint.
Here's an example of how this can be done correctly:
Original fic
Beautiful.
ithmarvin's post in the GAFF LJ community... which most of you couldn't see because you (probably) need to be a community member. So. Reposted here. All text following is not mine own.)The answer is deceptively simple: Make a movie out of it!
Before you break that camera out and run to Hobby Lobby to make some wizard robes, be advised that going that route will not work and is in fact the exact opposite of making a bad fanfic good. A good way to do it is to run the fanfic through a voice synthesizer. That's a very good start, but that does not make a movie. There's a bunch of graphics you have to worry about, but I'm sure that your vision of the fanfic can be emulated perfectly through Photoshop and MS Paint.
Here's an example of how this can be done correctly:
Original fic
Beautiful.