Everything Wrong With DETECTIVE COMICS Fanfictions

DON'T NO 4: "Mature" Content

I understand that many fanfics on Wattpad are rated mature and for appropriate audiences.

So why, you would ask, is that a problem now?

Trust me, the content being rated mature is not a problem.

But what goes inside the content sure is.

Have you ever come across stories that are rated Mature under Wattpad's guidelines and yet have the writings of a nine year old except for the occasional (read frequent) smut scenes thrown in here and there?

There's more than a 50% chance that you might have encountered such fanfics.

Authors must understand that rating your story mature doesn't mean that you have to throw in such a scene or two every five seconds of the story.

No.

You don't.

Because that only makes the story worse and gives the readers a sense that perhaps you don't really have a plot to write about or a general concept, and you are just continuing with the story for the sake of making your two favorite characters have sexual intercourse or something.

If you want your story to have mature scenes, then go ahead but please don't make it too often because that will only exude off a desperateness and that certainly is not the aspect good writers opt for in their books or among their characters.

The main problem which occurs with such stories is that the plot is going on smoothly until the author gets Writer's Block and can't decide what to do next or sometimes the author starts thinking that the whole plot is too dull and boring so he/she include such a scene to spice up the story line.

And if you want your story to be quality material, then take my advice and please don't do that.

No one wants to read a story where two random people are having a formal conversation and then all of a sudden they are all over each other.

No. Just don't do that.

It doesn't seem realistic.

While writing, you should take the following things into consideration:

1. Don't make it come out as a shock to your readers.

[For those of you giving me the side eye, I get it. I have done that sometimes in my stories but not very often. I also have other ways I can shock readers and I usually stick to them such as causing a tragedy, bringing up a plot twist etc but we will be discussing that later].

2. Make sure that the setting is appropriate. By setting, I mean the time and the place.

[For example, if your characters are at it in the middle of a fight, say like the end of the world is happening due to Darkseid or some other villain, then this certainly is the biggest mistake they could ever make in life. Could be their last mistake too].

3. I know there is a lot of audience who would read such a story anyway but in my opinion the quality of the story matters a lot. Your story can be either plot driven, character driven or both but please don't make it a story just for the sake of inserting your favorite canon character into an erotic fantasy with your OC.

It gets frustrating after a while (to me, at least, I don't know about you guys). 

Summarizing this whole chapter, a fanfic can be rated mature but that doesn't mean that it must have a scene once every two chapters.

Mature stories are those which deal with a mature concept such as killings, murders, things related to blood, abuse, violence, gore, mental torture etc.

It does not usually mean that the story must contain pornography, graphic depiction of such sort, sex scenes and all.

True it is classified under the category Mature but that doesn't mean that you have to use it up every now and then in your story.

For more info please read the Wattpad guidelines https://www.wattpad.com/guidelines

So if you want to write a story and you are rating it as Mature, be a bit mature yourself and analyze when and where to place these scenes, how to take on with the story and how not to desperately include just because you totally wanted to see that happening.

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I guess that's all for today.

Stay tuned for the next chapter.