There are more than one thousand fan fiction stories around the Internet that revolves around the life of the rich ones: powerful business men, spoiled 'chaebols', girls who have countless pairs of shoes and yet go for the street look whenever they go outside, trying to be 'incognito' when in fact, they're background follows them around through the eyes of the reader.

So, the question is: why do writers go for that kind of background for their characters? Is it that having a rich character (or more) makes the action more interesting to the reader? Or is it that the research in the field of economics is far more accessible than any other kind of research?

As a reader and writer myself, it made me realize that the combo of multiple hot guys and money is attractive to most of the readers. Well, the writers chose money because, let's get serious here, it spins the world we live in. And it's not always that they want to show the bad effects on ones life, but the fact that they actually express something they want for themselves. It's not that we want to be poor or anything like that. And seeing how some spent money of expensive 'toys' without even thinking twice while others have only their dreams, well let's just say that those with the dreams get to imagine themselves in the shoes of the others. Get what I mean? An imaginary role-play through a story.

On the other hand, there are those writers who have all those things they write about and so, it's much more comfortable to work with a field they're familiar with, than go research about hunger, poverty or actually watch the news.

And there's the 'Mary Sue Syndrome' we're all trying to run away from, but often fall into the trap of it. It's more to perfection than just the super-perfect-kind-of-girl who gets all the guys run after her and all the good things happen to her like the domino pieces falling one after another. Perfection - the good girl gone bad, perfection - the girl who's quiet and still gets the attention, perfection - the girl who, even though she doesn't have a perfect body, still has at least two guys after her, perfection - that one girl who manages to make the world spin. That's perfection in my eyes; because none of those happen in real life. And I'm not afraid to admit that most of my characters have one or more of those traits mentioned above. So why don't we stop accusing those writers who have the actual power of creating an utopia where everything else falls apart? Why are they to blame when it's actually us who see everything in white and black? People, there are shades of gray as well! So let them dream for a better world.

Utopia - that's something that exists only in our dreams and if we don't dream, who will? 'Cause through dreams, this world got to change and things actually improved even though we do not see it.

And for those who did not understand the reason why I chose to write this - it's called respect. I wrote this to point out that we should respect out fellow fan fiction writers around here and not argue with their decisions for their own stories. Let's take a good look at our own stories before judging the others, alright? It's not like, for example, we argue with Stephanie Meyer why she made Edward Cullen sparkling or extra-rich-living-in-the-woods-like-a-cavern-man-vampire. And why couldn't we? Just because her books sold out as best sellers all over the world? I tend to say that it's because people respect her work, be it good or bad. 'Cause in this world of our, it's not only about personal taste, but about respecting them others as well.

Kat's Out!

coming next - Eyes of the Eagles!