[ SECRET POST #6225 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6225 ⌋

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


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not super familiar with how it works but I assume most fic that gets the serial numbers filed off and published as original fiction are setting change AUs where the characters have completely different jobs and so the author had to introduce them and where they are in their life anyway/what is their major source of incompleteness in this particular setting. I think that makes it easier to turn the fic into an original novel because unlike most fic that relies on the audience already knowing the characters, you have to establish who they are/what their current situation is/what their relationship is with the world they live in. If you've done that and have already written fic that is at least novel-length with (e.g.) a romance novel structure already, I'm guessing it's pretty easy to turn it into original fiction.

[(Anonymous)]

+1, it's almost always AUs. Bonus round, AU crossovers. I've seen it a hundred times. The problem is still that your fic has to be so wildly OOC and AU so that none of the fandom-specific worldbuild can be recognized or has any sort of influence on the story at all. Otherwise, you run into one of two problems - either it's so obvious it used to be fic and people pick up on it with degrees of annoyance, or readers are wildly confused as to how any of the story works or why the characters are that way because they don't have the context from the fandom anymore. I've seen the latter in the wild more than once, and it's like, child, if unbiased readers are saying they don't understand the characters' motives, it's because they don't know it's supposed to be Naruto and Sasuke with all their canon baggage but you changed the names.

[(Anonymous)]

This. I followed someone on tumblr once who used to write short fics about a specific pairing. Eventually they ran out of canon ideas and started veering into increasingly elaborate AUs, some of which became several chapters long. Finally, one AU got so far away from the source material that the author stopped writing it, took down what was already up and declared they were going to try to turn it into an original story and publish it.

I think they either stopped posting on tumblr or I left the fandom and unfollowed them before I found out if that story ever got published. If it did, though, I doubt anyone not already in the know could trace it back to the canon it was originally fanfic for.