I've noticed this myself. Fan fiction is such a different animal because it's presumed that the audience knows exactly what the characters look and sound like, the details of the background, and of world they live in. And for me, part of the appeal is definitely being able to jump into story without putting in the effort to get to know the world. Whenever I pick up an original novel after a long period of reading just fan fic, I have to sort of retrain myself to read in a world where I don't know any of the details going in. It's hard.
Which is not to say that there aren't also a lot of bad writers publishing original fiction, especially in the SciFi/Fantasy genre, where good world-building takes a level of subtlety and skill that many lack.
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Date: 2007-03-07 03:21 pm (UTC)Which is not to say that there aren't also a lot of bad writers publishing original fiction, especially in the SciFi/Fantasy genre, where good world-building takes a level of subtlety and skill that many lack.