[ SECRET POST #4986 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4986 ⌋

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Comments

[tabaqui]

To a point. They're as original as every adaptation of every story ever, from Star Wars to Sherlock Holmes to Clueless. There's an underlying structure there that's been laid out for decades or centuries, but every writer has put their own mark on it, their own spin.

Pretty much every original story is working off an archetype that's been set in stone; the writer's just adding their own flourishes and extras and bits. That's still original writing, to me; just like every iteration of Hamlet or R&J or Sherlock or the Knight Errant is original.

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NAYRT - But if you named your characters something else, would people read your stories? More than the odd few?

A huge part of the challenge in original fiction is creating something that large numbers of people are engaged by. That challenge is MUCH smaller with fanfic, because people are already engaged. They wouldn't be looking for fanfic if they weren't.

[tabaqui]

They would as much as they read any original stories they've never heard of? The 'audience' for original work and fanfic is very, very different, and I wouldn't expect but a couple of my closest fandom friends to read my original stuff.