User blog:That Engineer/Issues With Basic OC-Insert Stories

I'm gonna speak for myself and quite a few others on this, so if you question the use of plural words, you'll know why.

Given the comments we've all been seeing in Nolan's new fics over the past few days, it's quite clear those who like this stuff don't have much experience when it comes to building a good story. The reason why some of us keep telling Nolan why his stories aren't good is because we're able to pick out the plot holes quite easily and notice how some of this stuff doesn't make any sense. Yeah, it is his work, but that's no excuse to be lazy when you're writing to impress people.

Now, most of us didn't start out as the talented authors we are today. Back then, we were doing things similar to what Nolan does currently: copy/pasting or following a set plot and adding our own stuff into it. However, over time we grew to take the advice of other authors on how we could improve our work. Im sure some of us were immature and took the feedback as people being mean or whatever, but that's what constructive criticism is if someone is pointing out the flaws in a work. Now, getting better at writing doesn't happen over night; at best, a few months if you write frequently. But the main point is, we actually took the advice of others and realized what was wrong with our works and went on to fix them. As an example, I didn't 'show' as much as I was telling when I started writing stuff for the Loud House. That essentially means using more description to describe how someone's feeling instead of outright saying they're happy or sad. It helps build a better picture, and that's something Omega, Weav, and even Tye told me before when both Syn and Worth were still in their early stages.

Now, when most of us see Nolan's fics, the main issues we see are the lack of creativity because he doesn't put a whole lot of effort into actually building the story. THe plot itself already exists, and he could do major alterations, but for whatever reason, he just chooses the easier route and just adds his own dialogue and himself into scenes even when they won't make sense. Heck, JAMES does a better job at actually making changes than he does, and he's done many of them. Like, Nolan could add in scenes where he's walking from his house to the Louds, more narration to explain a scene, etc. But instead, he's just there to exist in essence, almost like a spotlight stealer. That's the same thing people say about Clyde half the time, and it's not a compliment.

Now, from what myself and others see, there's only 6 people who actually defend his [Nolan] style of writing. And it's literally the same people who've likely made similar stories. They think we're just being mean to him, but they're completely ignoring the underlying advice others are saying. Criticism isn't always going to be nice, and there's a different between plain negative feedback and constructive criticism.

The former usually involves offering little advice and specifically targets the author, sometimes with an idle threat. The latter involves picking out what someone finds wrong with a work and giving their interpretation on how it could be corrected. Whether that feedback is helpful or the author decides to follow it is up for debate.

And given how some of those people had responded lately, it makes me feel we're talking to little kids (who are probably actually teens in real time). They may be looking at the comments, but they aren't actually reading them clearly to see what they mean, which comes off as blind following. They treat any kind of advice that points out what's wrong with Nolan's fics as negative feedback and won't read it. It's like an adult scolding their child for not using caution when crossing a street, but the child doesn't want to listen because they were being yelled at. It doesn't help that those same people are constantly encouraging Nolan to keep up this behavior and preventing him from actually sitting down and thinking things over. If you don't truly learn to accept criticism, you're not going to grow as a writer.

I've said this before in one specific blog some time last year, it's that Nolan can do better than what he's doing right now. He's had plenty of time to actually change his formula a bit, but for whatever reason he refuses to. He's even told us that he would take criticism better, but clearly that was a lie given the way he's responded as of late. Again, it may be his stories, but it's still a poor excuse to write something that honestly was made with little effort on the author's part. We all remember his work was related to plagiarism at one point, and for good reason. It's WAY too similar to the actual episodes that if Nolan was take out of everything, it'd literally just be the episode we watched on TV not too long ago but having someone claim they made it. If you're going to make a story and plan on putting it up in a place where everyone can see it, it's best to write it in a way that MOST will enjoy it, not just 4 or 5 people.

Anyway, several of us are pretty tired of whatever Insane Troll Logic Nolan and a few others will put up to defend his work, even if their counterpoints make no sense. So, we're just going to avoid reading anything he puts out. We're not gonna spend our time talking to people who are so thick-headed they might as well be a steel wall. But just note, we tried to help you Nolan, but you refused to listen no matter how good the advice was. It may have gotten a little worse over time, but that's because our patience was wearing out.

So good luck with whatever you do, cause we're just going to ignore it now.