Fifty Shades of Grey Fanfic in Mini Bites

I can hear someone saying it now… “S, I need for you do better.”

In the case of doing all this research on Fifty Shades of Grey, it is not a matter of doing better. It’s a matter of needing to know what is going on.

Okay, Folks, I am sort of using that an excuse.

I have delve into the dark world of Fifty Shades of Grey fanfic to see what is out there.

And let me tell you, I’ve been shaking my head shamelessly at what has been written. This is going to come out snotty because I am a snotty person when it comes to degrees of how writers’ write.

I am not too impressed by what is out there.

There is one fanfic author actually EL James writing. The only differences are there are many run on sentences, there is not explicit sexual situations, and it just sounds really elementary. Don’t get me wrong. The fanfic author has great ideas, but the writing suffer.

Some of you may be thinking…what in the hell are you talking about you being a writing snot? You read Fifty Shades of Grey for goodness sakes! Well, what I will say about EL James’s Fifty Shades of Grey is that it is decent high low brow fiction. Yes, it has annoying occurrences in the writing. A lot of repetitive language, and Ana’s first point of view could have been constructed better. However, compared to some of this fanfic I am reading, it is way better.

Listen, I participated on a soap opera fanfiction board several years ago. I wrote fanfiction for a Young and the Restless couple, Colleen Carlton and Adrian Korbel. I wrote a prequel basically about Korbel’s life because viewers didn’t know much about his life.

When I write something like fanfiction, I play writing detective…and I write about what isn’t really cover.

One of the Fifty Shades of Grey fanfiction writes about Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele Grey having four children instead of the two the readers know about at the end of the original Fifty Shades Trilogy (Fifty Shades of Freedom). Anyway, the writer throws out some good ideas, but the execution when it comes to having the writing technically smooth…it is rough.

It is a bit mushy story, but compare to what else I’ve discovered on that fanfiction forum, it is better than what I’ve read afterwards.

I was challenged by a friend to write my own fanfiction. I may do it still…

Hear, Hear to fanfiction!
Sophia