Subject: The trouble is...
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Posted on: 2014-04-07 15:41:00 UTC

This group was founded largely on the expectation that an author should put in the effort to polish their writing before they publish it. You should absolutely write if you want to write, but if you struggle with putting your ideas into written words, it's gonna take a lot more effort for you to get your work up to a presentable level. You might want to consider finding a co-writer—maybe an IRL friend—who understands your ideas and can help with the actual writing part.

Again, though, I want to stress that the PPC is not about dark humor. It's not about killing things for fun and profit. It's also not about cool powers and/or lots of ammo. Building these concepts into your characters will cause you problems, even if your writing is technically perfect.

From the PPC Badfic page of the wiki:

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090730182425/ppc/images/0/04/PPC_doinitrong.png

The PPC is about a rag-tag band of normal (if more than a little eccentric) people of all species desperately trying to make the multiverse a better place despite staggering odds and surrealistically bizarre working conditions. No one would do this job without a deep love for the various canons to drive them to it, because they don't have it easy. Nor should they, because that would be boring to read about. However, ninety percent of the time, this difficulty should be a source of humor, not drama. At the end of the day, we're simply here to have a laugh at bad fanfic. Please bear that in mind.

~Neshomeh

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