Should I quit my fanfic?

Okay, so, I was trying to write a massive crossover fanfic on fanfiction.net, and, when I went over to the site in preparation for my weekly chapter update, I saw one particularly scathing review that culminated in the reviewer saying that there seems to be no reason for my story, that people wouldn't find it interesting, and that it seems like it was made on drugs, so, I was wondering, should I just quit while I'm ahead?

You don't really even seem ahead anyway.

So why not give a try and keep going?

For one person who doesn't like it? No. Especially since from what you said they said, it sounds like they could be classed as a "hater", since they assume that they can speak for anyone besides themselves.

The answer is no.

So long as there's one guy out there who enjoys it, even if that guy is you, what should the opinions of, as Madrugada put it, a Hater, matter to you?

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Provided you're not writing something horribly offensive, I see no reason you would need to stop even if it was bad. You're not going to get better if you quit, after all.

I've gotten several scathing reviews from the same person on a couple of stories. I'm still writing two of them, and my reason for not continuing the third has nothing to do with that particular asshat.

Now, if the majority of your reviews^** or even a significant minority on a fic are bringing up the same criticism, then it's probably time to, if not toss in the towel, at least give your story and your writing process a very serious evaluation. But you're always going to get some people who take joy in finding stories to pigeon.^note Fly in, crap all over, and leave.

Well, out of 14 reviews, that was the only really bad one, and it complained mostly about grammar (not spelling, more or less just too many run-on sentences and paragraphs that were too long, the end of the review was where it got surprisingly insulting). Beyond that, the most negativity I got was from people that said they'd have given me a negative review based on the first chapter, but realized it was intentionally bad and appreciated the storyline afterward (I rectified the first chapter issue with an author's note).

If he read the fic after you posted the note explaining how it's supposed to be bad, he's either a troll or he can't read.

If he read the fic before the note, you can explain to him that it's supposed to suck (if you can send him a message somehow.)

Either way, one bad review out of fourteen is no reason to stop writing anything.

Well, he criticized the serious parts of my story, he mostly ignored the troll fic part.

You have the world's best avatar. Anyone who has the world's best avatar can't be wrong. Keep going ahead.

The thing you need to figure out is: "Is his criticism valid?" By which I mean, does he raise any actual points about weaknesses in your narrative - plot, characters, descriptions, word choice, etc - that diminish or unintentionally subvert what you're trying to accomplish with your story?

If the answer is no, then feel free to /ignore.

If the answer is yes, then he's just a jerk with a point.

About the repeated criticism thing: If a lot of people are complaining about the same thing, and it's not necessarily intentional on your part, they might be onto something there...

Don't listen if it's intentional (such as a seemingly nonsensical plot twist or the like), though, 'cause it kind of beats the point.

Flaming aside, that much at least sounds like legitimate criticism, assuming that it's factually accurate. The rule of thumb is that if a paragraph is more than 10-12 lines long, you should look for a place to split it. The reason walls of text are hard to read is because it's easy to lose your place. Similarly, if you're not changing paragraphs when you change speakers—a common cause of excessively long paragraphs—it can become hard to figure out who said what.