[ SECRET POST #4435 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4435 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Umbrella Academy, Cha-Cha and Hazel]


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[Death Mark]


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[Casey Affleck]












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Comments

[type_wild]

I've read two novels where I definitely suspected the authors had fannish backgrounds, and both times I got it confirmed.

I wouldn't say that "reads like fanfic" by necessity needs to be a negative; this might be in your interest, discussing how fanfic - or perhaps better said, "fanfic mode" - could be considered its own genre. To quote:

"it’s just a character-driven *genre* that is so character-driven that it can be more effective to use other people’s characters because then we can really get the impact of the storyteller’s message but I feel like it could also be not using other people’s characters, just a more character-driven story. Like, I feel like my original stuff–the novellas I have up on AO3, the draft I just finished–are probably really fanfiction, even though they’re original, because they’re hitting fanfic beats. And my frustration with getting original stuff published has been, all along, that I’m calling it a genre it really isn’t."

[(Anonymous)]

There's a lot of good points in the linked discussion but the gushing over coffeeshop AUs isn't one of them.

[(Anonymous)]

Interesring

[(Anonymous)]

This is the problem I have when I write fanfic. It's technically fanfic in that it's about characters from a book or movie, but it's not fanfic *the genre*

I just don't have the knack of writing the fanfic genre.