The Fun parts

[andrewducker]

One of my favorite anecdotes is from a writer who decided that he would write all the exciting, fun parts of his novel first, and go back and fill in the boring middle parts later. When he had finished writing just the fun parts, he looked over what he had, came to an important realization, and sent the finished work off to his editor.

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And on that note, I've just finished the first 21 parts (and first week) of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. And if you liked Harry Potter at all and aren't reading this then you really, really should be.

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[ashfae.livejournal.com]

their love of self-insertion, the original setting, the desire to destroy the elements of that setting that don't make sense to them

If these are the defining traits of the fanfiction you've read, you've only been reading crap fanfiction.