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I had to write a short story for my creative writing class that's due tomorrow and has to be at least 5 pages, but I was drawing a blank on something new to write, so I filed off the serial numbers of a fanfic I wrote, and I'm turning that in instead. And it's 7 pages, so, yay!

How does fanfic and original fic overlap in your lives, F!S?

It doesn't very, as a lot of my fanfic is porn or wish fulfillment. But I think my writing style is similar.

Some of my favorite work I've ever done is a fic about Natasha Romanov, and I'm always looking for ways to file serial numbers off. But it's intrinsic to her.

I'm taking some of my ideas and head-canons for Wizarding America and retooling them to fit in as the setting of an original webcomic.

For me it... mostly doesn't. I try to keep my fandom ID and RL separate, and I mostly won't let people I know read my fanfiction.
I sometimes wish I could make more overlap, though. Many people in my life (including my parents) were utterly uninterested in my fanfic writing, but the people who like my fics are absolutely uninterested in my original stuff.
That makes transitioning a little lonely.

And somehow I can't really bring across some of the things I love writing about in fanfic to my original writing. I love angst, I love tormenting the characters and crazy twists and stuff, but... why can't I do this in original fiction? I think that's why I keep sliding back to fanfic, because I'm not managing to write original stories that scratch my emotional melodramatic itch or whatever.

The only story that I've really managed to do that with is the one I want to turn into a webcomic, but that's stalled since I lost my artist -_- boo

/sorry for the sudden onslaught, I had more feelings about this than I expected

I don't really write fanfic. I just like writing original fiction better. But sometimes I still get ideas for fanfics and I'll try to take the parts that appeal to me and find a way to recreate it as original fic.

how's your original fic going right now?

Not too well, unfortunately. My body has been throwing its semi-annual "I don't wanna go back to school!" tantrum so I've been exhausted. Hopefully I'll adjust to the new schedule soon.

Thanks for asking though. :)

I don't write original fiction at all, and I have no interest in doing so. I do write a lot of nonfiction for work/career stuff, so fanfiction is a nice way for me to stretch the other side of my writing brain, so to speak. I like to think it keeps my nonfiction a little more lively and imaginative!

I've also thought about filing the serial numbers off of a couple AUs, but I wouldn't even know what to do with them. I just like the stories!

mleh, I'm caught between two stools with all my writing. mostly because writing fanfic means writing in English and original fic means writing in my mother tongue, but also because of the litfic - genre fic divide and the different exposure that comes with each. It doesn't help that both sides are snide about each other.

I think being able to file off the serial numbers and transition/add to either is pretty awesome.

I've never successfully filed the serial numbers off anything to my own satisfaction, but there have been times when I've used an aspect of something that I liked and used it as a springboard to my own story.

I didn't do it for myself but for a friend's English class in school. She had to write a poem on one and a short story on another occasion and I did both for her - the poem wasn't so much filing off the serial numbers as it was not naming character names, but it definitely was fandom inspired. The short story was something similar - not pre-written, but inspired by a fandom and properly repurposed as fanfic afterwards.

I wrote a handful of stuff set in the HP universe back in Victorian times-- Aberforth Dumbledore was my only major canon character although Albus and Grindlewald were in it, and the main OCs were ancestors of the Patil family. So I always intend to take some of that and rewrite it as original fiction; not so much the Hogwarts/school-age story (too derivative), but the one where Aberforth and the oldest Patil girl are adults and teaching at a wizard school in India. Because that one's a murder mystery and I actually really like my whole outline for it.

I hadn't written any fic in close to 10 years and yet I am now. I actually really wish it's something I could turn into original fiction, because it is so unique, but it would be intensely obvious who the characters are and changing key assets there would make the plot impossible in any other context.

that sounds really cool and I'm not even a big Harry Potter fan!

What is the story about?

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