User blog comment:Lia Schiffer/405: Deicide 7/@comment-1248963-20100601192325

I have to agree on Tinni on that one. I believe that if you reach the point in which you need to go to your fanbase to search for ideas, then your story is super screwed, to put it simply.

I've written fanfiction for quite sometime, and a long time ago, on one of my first stories, I made the mistake of following one of my reviewers advise for a plot twist, even if I had the whole story already planned out. I lost complete interest on the story and abandoned it because I couldn't follow up.

We love Bleach because it comes out of Kubo's mind, because it's what he wants and what he has imagined for the story. Trying to pull out raw material from the fanbase has never ever ever worked out, because they're not your original ideas, you know? They feel like forced or fake?